Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- IN CONFRONTING CATASTROPHE, WHO CAN HELP? -- I. Collective Insanity -- II. The Insanity of Religiousness -- III. The Insanity of Secularism -- IV. Secularizing the Great Ways -- V. Secularizing Christianity -- OUR HERITAGE FROM GREECE AND ISRAEL -- I. Secularizing in Greece -- II. Secularizing in Israel -- III. Jesus -- IV. Paul -- RELIGIOUSNESS AND SECULARIZING IN THE CHURCH -- I. Introduction -- II. Cultural Assimilation -- III. Otherworldliness, Sex, and Violence -- IV. The Formation of Catholic Theology -- V. The Reformation -- VI. The Rise of Liberal Protestantism -- VII. The Crisis of Liberal Theology -- THE RISE OF SECULARISM -- I. Introduction -- II. The Renaissance -- III. The Rise of Modern Science -- IV. The Rise of Scientific Secularism -- V. The Controversy over Evolution -- VI. The Enlightenment -- VII. The Enlightenment Heritage Today -- THE SECULARIST INTENTION OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY -- I. The Method of Doubt -- II. British Empiricism -- III. German Idealism -- IV. The Twentieth Century and the Return to Secularism -- V. France and the End of Modern Philosophy -- VI. Conclusions -- SECULARIST EDUCATION -- I. Introduction -- II. Liberal Arts Education -- III. Training for Jobs -- IV. The Research University -- V. The Decline of Liberal Arts Education -- VI. Higher Education for Profit -- VII. Secularizing Christian Higher Education -- THE DISCIPLINE OF ECONOMICS AND THE TRIUMPH OF ECONOMISM -- I. Introduction -- II. Assumptions of Economic Theory -- III. Economism -- IV. How Economism Became Victorious -- V. Economism and Earthism -- REACTIONS TO SECULARISM -- I. Introduction -- II. Religious Fundamentalism -- III. Parapsychology and New Age Religion -- IV. Secularism and Irrationalism -- V. Secularism and Nationalism -- VI. Secularism and the Moral Life -- VII. Conclusions.

A NEW BEGINNING IN PHILOSOPHY -- I. The Prospects for a New Philosophy -- II. The New Philosophy -- III. Alfred North Whitehead -- IV. Whitehead's Theism -- V. Implications for Secularist Institutions -- SECULARIZING CHRISTIANITY IN THE UNITED STATES -- I. Secularizing Traditions Globally -- II. Secularizing Christians -- III. The Rise and Decline of Secularizing Churches -- IV. Continuing Secularizing in the Old-line Churches -- V. The Promise and Problems of the Secularizing Churches -- VI. Separating from Secularism -- VII. What Secularizing Christianity Offers.