" . . . wonderfully imaginative and provocative in its interdisciplinary approach to the study of nineteenth-century American religion and women's role within it." ―Choice " . . . an important addition to the fields of religious studies, women's 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.