Mark Twain's roots : Hannibal, the river, and the west -- Mark Twain's wife : the moral ethos of the Victorian home -- Mark Twain's pastor : Joe Twichell and social Christianity -- Mark Twain's liberal faith : the social gospel on Asylum Hill -- Mark Twain's Civil War : civil religion and the Lost Cause -- Mark Twain's American Adam : humor as hope and apocalypse -- Mark Twain's grief : the final years.