Bodies of belief: Baptist community in early America

Introduction: A new people of God

"Little tabernacles in the wilderness": Baptists in colonial Pennsylvania

"Sons and daughters in zion": Baptists in colonial Virginia

"A heaven-born stroke": evangelical conversion

"Putting on Christianity": ritual practice

"Holy walking and conversation": church discipline

Sisters in Christ: gender and spirituality

Free people in the Lord: race and religion

The manly Christian: evangelical white manhood

Conclusion: Baptists in the early republic

Appendix: Baptist ministers in the Delaware Valley and Chesapeake.