Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: A New People of God 1
4. Chapter 1. “Little Tabernacles in the Wilderness”: Baptists in Colonial Pennsylvania 11
5. Chapter 2. “Sons and Daughters of Zion”: Baptists in Colonial Virginia 33
6. Chapter 3. “A Heaven-Born Stroke”: Evangelical Conversion 52
7. Chapter 4. “Putting on Christianity”: Ritual Practice 71
8. Chapter 5. “Holy Walking and Conversation”: Church Discipline 90
9. Chapter 6. Sisters in Christ: Gender and Spirituality 112
10. Chapter 7. Free People in the Lord: Race and Religion 134
11. Chapter 8. The Manly Christian: Evangelical White Manhood 156
12. Conclusion: Baptists in the Early Republic 179
13. Appendix. Partial List of Baptist Ministers in the Mid-Atlantic and Chesapeake, 1689–1830 185
14. Abbreviations 193
15. Notes 195
16. Index 257
17. Acknowledgments 269