Table of Contents

List 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

About the Author

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

Reviews

"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