Righteous Empire Revisited.

The author reflects on the circumstances that led, some forty years ago, to his study of 'the Protestant Experience in America.' Since that time and his choice of the term 'Righteous Empire,' the 'Experience' has become less visible and vital, as it necessarily shared more of its status and influence with its companions inside pluralist America. Imperial aspirations today emerge from only one wing of Protestantism, which usually chooses to identify itself in semi-isolation from its old kin under the name 'Evangelical' or Southern Baptist.