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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An important work. Kissel demonstrates the commonalities in the processes of community organization--domestic devotion, church-building, schooling, discipline, and civic engagement--shared across the religious faiths in the first generation of Euro-American settlement of the Old Northwest."--Kyle Roberts, author of
Evangelical Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Foreword and Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Map 1: The Old Northwest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xvi
Introduction: The Religious Crossroads . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 1. The Family Altar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 2. Engaging with the Word . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Chapter 3. Salvation through Education . . . . . . . . . 56
Chapter 4. Sacred Centers of Community . . . . . . . . 81
Chapter 5. Stewards of Civil Order . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Chapter 6. An Active Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Conclusion: A Religious Mosaic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
