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Includes index Electronic audio file Electronic reproduction. New York Books on Tape 2017 Available via World Wide Web
Contents:
Now entering fantasyland Part I. The conjuring of America: 1517-1789 I believe, therefore I am right: the Protestants All that glitters: the gold-seekers Building our own private heaven on Earth: the puritans The God-given freedom to believe in God Imaginary friends and enemies: the early satanic panics The first me century: religion gets American Meanwhile, in the 18th century reality-based community Part II. United States of amazing: the 1800s The first great delirium The 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 The war between states of mind Ten million little houses on the prairie Fantasy industrialized Part III. A long arc bending toward reason: 1900-1960 Progress and backlash The biggest backlash: brand new old-time religion The business of America is show business Big rock candy mountains: utopia in the suburbs and the sun The 1950s seemed so normal Part IV. Big bang: the 1960s and 70s 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 Part V. Fantasyland scales: from the 1980s through the turn of the century Making make-believe more realistic and real life more make-believe Forever young: kids r us syndrome The 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 Part VI. The problem with fantasyland: from the 1980s to the present and beyond The inmates running the asylum decide monsters are everywhere Reality is a conspiracy: the x-filing 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! The economic dreamtime As fantasyland goes, so goes the nation
