I Emergence of Flag Desecration and Civil Religion --
1 Protest, Social Control, and the Semiotics of Flag Desecration 3 --
2 Roots of Flag Desecration in American History 17 --
3 Civil Religion and the Flag as a Venerated Object 31 --
II Authoritarian Aesthetic and its Resistance --
4 Questioning Authority in the Age of Protest 47 --
5 Flag Burning as Political Iconoclasm in the 1980s 61 --
6 Patriotism and Dissent in the Post-Eichman Era 79 --
III Moral Panic Over Flag Desecration --
7 Moral Panic and the Social Construction of Flag Desecration 101 --
8 Moral Entrepreneurs and the Criminalization of Protest 127 --
9 Media and Its Contradictions in the Flag Panic 153 --
10 Resisting the Criminalization of Protest 177.
