Introduction: Religion in the Nineteenth-Century South; ONE: Country Preachers; TWO: City Pastors; THREE: Reading, Writing, and Religion; FOUR: Sectionalism and the Rise of Denominations; FIVE: Pastors and Soldiers; SIX: Reconstructing Religion; SEVEN: The Ministerial Profession; EIGHT: A Call to Order; NINE: The Divided Mind of New South Pastors; Epilogue: Religion and Progress in the Nineteenth-Century South; Appendix: A Note on Sources and Methods; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Summary
This volume offers a history of three generations of Baptist and Methodist clergymen in 19th-century Virginia and, through them, of the congregations and communities in which they lived and worked
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-256) and index