"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
Summary
Ultimately, it highlights an oft-forgotten way that Americans subtly repositioned religious institutions alongside state authority
