Introduction. The age of ressentiment : bodies without souls -- Free-market fundamentalism -- Microfascism and control societies -- Christian fundamentalism -- Ressentiment -- Cartography -- Chapter two. Christocrats and the civic gospel : the backlash of the culture wars -- The social gospel -- The civic gospel and dominion/reconstructionist theology -- The Christocratic agenda -- Church and state -- Intelligent design -- Homophobia -- A regime of dualistic madness -- Chapter three. The secular strategies of the Christian right : a political curriculum to disestablish critical thought -- The joiners -- Perverse joiners -- The bully pulpit and executive order -- The curriculum of the Christian right -- Chapter four. Humanism and the American political imaginary -- The posthumanism of Christocrats and the neoconservatives -- "Because humanity repeatedly fails..." -- Life, or quality of life : natal fascism? -- Producing modernity -- Pragmatism and anti-intellectualism -- Beyond flesh -- Chapter five. The significance of place : the civic gospel in the south and the midwest -- Part I. The land of a thousand churches : the ex-Confederacy and the resurrection of the south -- The south becomes republican -- The Christocrats, the Southern Baptist Convention and the south -- The southern nation : to Jerusalem and beyond : a faith-based war -- Part II. The myth of the common culture, rustbelt religion and right-wing politics -- A midwestern mega church -- Common culture -- Rustbelt religion -- Other people's children.
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