The Christian Home in Victorian America, 1840}}}1900 [Paperback]

... wonderfully imaginative and provocative in its interdisciplinary approach to the study of nineteenth-century American religion and womens role within it. Choice

... an important addition to the fields of religious studies, womens history, and American cultural history. Journal of the American Academy of Religion

... a complete and complex portrait of the Christian home. The Journal of American History

COLLEEN MCDANNELL is Associate Professor of History and Sterling M. McMurrin Chair in Religious Studies at the University of Utah and co-author (with Bernhard Lang) of Heaven: A History.

Foreword by Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein
Preface

1. Church, Home, and Society
2. Domestic Architecture and the Protestant
3. Catholic Domesticity
4. Rituals of the Hearth
5. Leaders at the Domestic Altar: The Paternal Model
6. Leaders at the Domestic Altar: The Maternal Model

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index