Andrew Ball is Editorial Assistant for the journal Communications in Mathematical Physics, based at Harvard University, USA.

Introduction: A New Theory of the Sacred

Chapter 1
The Boiled-Over District: Effervescence and Adaptation During the Market Revolution

Chapter 2
The Salvific Power of Affect: Sentimentalism in the Labor Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Chapter 3
The American Fetish: Religious Economics in the Novels of William Dean Howells

Chapter 4
Mistaking "Shadows for Gods": Class and the Christ Novel in the Progressive Era

Chapter 5
"Christianity Incorporated": Sinclair Lewis and the Taylorization of American Protestantism

Chapter 6
Gastonia Revisited: Religion, Literature, and the Loray Mill Strike of 1929

Chapter 7
"The blackness of God": Race and Religion in the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance

List of Figures

Acknowledgements