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.

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• Foreword by Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. SteinPreface1. Church, Home, and Society2. Domestic Architecture and the Protestant3. Catholic Domesticity4. Rituals of the Hearth5. Leaders at the Domestic Altar: The Paternal Model6. Leaders at the Domestic Altar: The Maternal ModelConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex