Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction: Going beyond Modernism from World War I to the Cold War -- Part One: How a Theologian Served the Opinion Elite, and How an Evangelist Startled Them -- 1. Christianity, Reason, and the National Character -- 2. Origins of an Ailing Polemic -- Part Two: Narratives of Blindness and Insight in an Era of Confession -- 3. Guilt of the Thirties, Penitence of the Fifties -- 4. McCarthyism through Sentimental Melodrama and Film Noir -- Part Three: Cold War Cultural Politics and the Varieties of Religious Experience -- 5. The Mass Culture Critique's Implications for American Religion -- 6. Jeremiads on the American Arcade and Its Consumption Ethic -- Part Four: Versions of Inwardness in Cold War Psychology and the Neo-Gothic -- 7. Controversies over Therapeutic Religion -- 8. Locating the Enigma of Shirley Jackson -- Part Five: The Styles of Prophecy -- 9. Voices of Reform, Radicalism, and Conservative Dissent -- 10. James Baldwin and the Wages of Innocence -- Epilogue: Putting an End to Ending Our Innocence -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.