Now entering fantasyland I believe, therefore I am right: the Protestants All that glitters: the gold-seekers Building our own private heaven on Earth: the puritans God-given freedom to believe in God Imaginary friends and enemies: the early satanic panics Frst me century: religion gets American Meanwhile, in the 18th century reality-based community Frst great delirium All-American fan fiction of Joseph Smith, prophet Quack nation: magical but modern Fantastic business: the gold rush inflection point In search of monsters to destroy: the conspiracy-theory habit Wr between states of mind Ten million little houses on the prairie Fantasy industrialized Progress and backlash Bggest backlash: brand new old-time religion Bsiness of America is show business Big rock candy mountains: utopia in the suburbs and the sun 1950s seemed so normal Big bang: the hippies Big bang: the intellectuals Big bang: the Christians Big bang: politics and government and conspiracies Big bang: living in a land of entertainment Making make-believe more realistic and real life more make-believe Forever young: kids r us syndrome Reagan era and the start of the digital age American religion from the turn of the millennium Our wilder christianities: belief and practice America versus the godless civilized world: why are we so exceptional? Magical but not necessarily christian, spiritual but not religious Blue-chip witch doctors: the re-enchantment of medicine How the mainstream enabled fantasyland: squishies, cynics and believers Anything goes unless it picks my pocket or break my leg Imates running the asylum decide monsters are everywhere Reality is a conspiracy: the X-Fling of America Mad as hell, the new voice of the people When the GOP went off the rails Liberals denying science Gun crazy Final fantasy-industrial complex Our inner children? They're going to Disney World! Economic dreamtime As fantasyland goes, so goes the nation
