Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword by Robert P. George; Acknowledgments; 1. A Portentous Question, a Quixotic Proposal; 2. Homo Religiosus; 3. City of the Gods; 4. Believing in Paganism; 5. Looking beyond the World: The Christian Revolution; 6. The Logic of Pagan Persecution; 7. The Struggle for the City; 8. Under a Christian Canopy; 9. Secularism and Paganism; 10. Counterrevolution, Part I: Symbols, Sex, and the Constitution; 11. Counterrevolution, Part II: Religious Freedom; 12. Coming Home? The Imminent Immanent City; Index;"Starting with T.S. Eliot's claim that the future of the West would be determined by a contest between Christianity and "modern paganism," Smith argues in Pagans and Christians in the City that today's culture wars can be seen as a contemporary reprise of the basic antagonism that pitted pagans against Christians in the late Roman Empire. He looks at that historical conflict and explores how the same competing orientations continue to clash today. Readers on both sides of the culture wars, Smith shows, have much to learn from seeing how patterns from ancient history are reemerging in today's most controversial issues."--Dust jacket flap