Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "The want of discipline" : Baptist Churches and local law in frontier Kentucky
  • Churches' "perplexing difficulties" : race, gender, and household relations
  • A "habitation of justice?" : the market revolution and the search for dispassionate arbitration
  • "The putrid carnage of contention" : religious insurgency and church authority
  • "A great curse to the neighborhood " : church property disputes and state authority
  • Conclusion.