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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One Secularization in America
1.1 Religion in America
1.2 Secularization debate
1.3 Religious quest in Lilies
Chapter two The Decline of Religion
2.1 The Decline of Religion in the 20th Century America
2.2 Clarence’s Loss of Faith
2.3 Loss of Faith and Crisis in Life:Clarence and Teddy’s Experience as Non-believers
Chapter three Religious Privatization
3.1 The Privatization of Religion
3.2 Essie’s Privatized Faith
3.3 Moral Implications of Religious Privatization
Chapter Four New Religious Movements and Cults
4.1 Secularization and New Religious Movements
4.2 The Temple as a Cult
4.3 Clark as a Cult Member
Chapter Five Movie as a Substitute Church in a Secularized World
5.1 Movie as a new substitute church
5.2An Invalid Alternative
5.3 The Degradation of Movies
Conclusion
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