Sectarianism and Orestes Brownson in the American Religious Marketplace; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Preface; Notes; 2 An Age of 'Crisis and Discontinuity': Brownson's Early Religious Confusion and Mobility; Notes; 3 'A Sea of Sectarian Rivalries': The Second Great Awakening and Religious Conflict; Notes; 4 'I am Slave to no Sect': Brownson's Defense of Intellectual Freedom and Doubt; Notes; 5 'I Wished to Unite Men': A Vision of Religious Calm in the Midst of an Intellectual Storm; Notes; 6 'We must have clothing and a shelter': The Search for a Religious Home; Notes

7 'We are Ourselves Too Polemical': Formation of a Rhetorical PugilistNotes; 8 'A Dangerous and Pestilent Fellow': Return to Religious Liberalism; Notes; 9 'An Uncompromising Catholic and a Thoroughgoing Papist': End of a Long Journey; Notes; 10 Epilogue; Notes; Index