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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction vii
4. CHAPTER ONE. Everyday Miracles: The Study of Lived Religion 1
5. CHAPTER TWO. "What Scripture Tells Me": Spontaneity and Regulation within the Catholic Charismatic Renewal 22
6. CHAPTER THREE. Family Strategies and Religious Practice: Baptism and the Lord's Supper in Early New England 41
7. CHAPTER FOUR. Practices of Exchange: From Market Culture to Gift Economy in the Interpretation of American Religion 69
8. CHAPTER FIVE. Lived Religion and the Dead: The Cremation Movement in Gilded Age America 92
9. CHAPTER SIX. Coffee, Mrs. Cowman, and the Devotional Life of Women Reading in the Desert 116
10. CHAPTER SEVEN. The Uses of Ojibwa Hymn-Singing at White Earth: Toward a History of Practice 133
11. CHAPTER EIGHT. Submissive Wives, Wounded Daughters, and Female Soldiers: Prayer and Christian Womanhood in Women's Aglow Fellowship 160
12. CHAPTER NINE. Golden Rule Christianity: Lived Religion in the American Mainstream 196
13. CHAPTER TEN. Getting (Not Too) Close to Nature: Modern Homesteading as Lived Religion in America 217
14. Contributors 243
15. Index 245
16. About the Editor 255