America's Religious Crossroads

Stephen T. Kissel is an assistant professor of history at Oakland City (Indiana) University.

• List of Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ixForeword and Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiMap 1: The Old Northwest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xviIntroduction: The Religious Crossroads . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Chapter 1. The Family Altar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Chapter 2. Engaging with the Word . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Chapter 3. Salvation through Education . . . . . . . . . 56Chapter 4. Sacred Centers of Community . . . . . . . . 81Chapter 5. Stewards of Civil Order . . . . . . . . . . . . 104Chapter 6. An Active Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Conclusion: A Religious Mosaic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

"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, 1783-1860