Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. From Cane Ridge to the Bible Belt : evangelicalism, gender, and the southern household in the antebellum era
  • Taming the Second Great Awakening : evangelical identity and worship patterns in the antebellum South
  • Courting women, courting God : strenuous courtships and holy unions
  • Improvising on the ideal : evangelical marriages in the antebellum South
  • "Unto whom much is given" : childbirth, child rearing, and coming of age in the evangelical home
  • Authoring the good death : illness, deathbed narratives, and women's authority
  • Epilogue. "We walk by faith and not by sight" : Evangelicals and the Civil War-era South.