Religion and public life in New England: steady habits, changing slowly

Introduction: religion in New England: reckoning with Catholicism / Andrew Walsh

The demographic layout: a tale of two New Englands / Stephen Prothero

Catholics I: majority faith with a minority mindset / James M. O'Toole

Catholics II: in the flux of crisis / Michele Dillon

Mainline Protestants: custodians of community / Maria Erling

Conservative Protestants: prospering on the margins / Andrew Walsh

Jews and African Americans: holding down the fort / Daniel Terris

Conclusion: on common ground / Andrew Walsh.