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Introduction - the elephant in the dark. Part I The manyness of religions in America: Part I/A The original cast - original manyness - Native American traditions; Israel in a promised land - Jewish religion and peoplehood; bread and mortar - the presence of Roman Catholicism; word from the beginning - American Protestant origins and the liberal tradition; restoring an ancient future - the Protestant churches and the mission mind; black center - African-American religion and nationhood: Part I/B Newmade in America; visions of paradise planted; 19th-century new religions; homesteads of the mind - belief and practice in metaphysics; east is west - eastern peoples and eastern religions; regional religion - a case study of religion in Appalachia; fundamentals of the New Age - an epilogue on present-day pluralism; public protestantism - historical dominance and the one religion of the United States; civil religion - millennial politics and history; cultural religion - millennial explorations of dominance and innocence. Conclusion - many centers meeting.