Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. Tables and Figures xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Preface xv
6. “They Worked Harder Than the Men”: The Context of Anglican Women's Lives in Mid-1900s Conception Bay 3
7. Families That Work Together, Worship Together: The Practice of Everyday Religion in Anglican Households 25
8. “Everything Was for Sunday”: Living the Holy Days 49
9. “We Had Lots of Trouble”: Mixed Marriages, Women's Conversion, and Religious Experimentation 78
10. “Aunt Dorcas and the Babies Was a Revered Thing”: Midwifery, Childbirth, and Embodied Religious Practices 105
11. “Our Sisters … Placed Bows of Ribbon in Her Grave”: Exploring Women-Led Funeral Rituals 129
12. “We Must Not Weep for a Sister Deceased”: Women, Christian Consolation, and Imagining Eternity 150
13. “Something Good Had Been Accomplished”: Women, Cultures of Suffering, and Acts of Christian Mercy 175
14. Apron Christianity: Textile Production, Devotional Practice, and the Expression of Benevolent Mutuality 198
15. “Do You Mean Catering?”: Food, Fellowship, and the Domestication of Anglican Church Women 219
16. “Christianity Conceived”: Women's Theological Cultures of Anglican Conception Bay 242
17. Appendix 253
18. Notes 255
19. Index 323