From the Book - First edition.
Part I. Young Christendom and the fading pagan gods
1. Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
2. The Way, the Truth, the Life, the Empire
3. Coercion, conversion, and heresy
Part II. From Convivencia to the stake
4. Bishop Paul of Burgos (c. 1352-1435)
5. Impureza de sangre: the crumbling of the Convivencia
6. the Inquisition and the end
7. John Donne (1572-1631)
8. "Not with sword...but with printing"
9. Persecution in an age of religious conversion
Part IV. Conversions in the dawn of the Enlightenment
10. Margaret Fell (1614-1702): woman's mind, woman's voice
11. Religious choice and early Enlightenment thought
12. Miracles versus evidence: conversion and science
13. Prelude: O my America!
Part V. The Jewish conversion question: where Christianity stumped its toe
14. Heinrich Heine (1797-1856): convictionless conversion
15. The varieties of coercive experience
16. Edith Stein (1891-1942): the sainthood of a converted Jew
Part VII. American exceptionalism: toward religious choice as a natural right
17. Peter Cartwright (1785-1872): anti-intellectualism and the battle for reason
18. Remaking the Protestant American compact
Interregnum: Absolutism and its discontents
Part VII. The way we live now
20. "The greatest": Muhammad Ali and the demythologizing decade
Conclusion: Darkness visible.