Cover -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER ONE: The Primitive Baptists -- CHAPTER TWO: Orientations -- CHAPTER THREE: Multiplying by Dividing: Trouble at Low Valley -- CHAPTER FOUR: Interlude: Doctrine, Polity, History, and Form -- CHAPTER FIVE: Parallel Lives -- CHAPTER SIX: The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Pilgrims and Paradoxes -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Theory and Ethnography -- APPENDIX A: 1983 Minutes of the Mountain District Primitive Baptist Association -- APPENDIX B: Excerpts from the London Meeting of 1689
APPENDIX C: Number of Primitive Baptist Churches by StateAPPENDIX D: Demography of the Mountain District Primitive Baptist Association -- APPENDIX E: Membership of Churches in the Mountain District Association -- APPENDIX F: Characters and Their Affiliations -- APPENDIX G: Patterns of Reciprocity and Exclusion among the Churches -- APPENDIX H: Obituary of Elder Elmer Sparks -- APPENDIX I: Independent Protestants: Background Information -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q