Shelby M. Balik is Assistant Professor of American History at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Foreword by Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein
Acknowledgments
A Note on Places
Introduction: Churching the Northern Wilds
1. No Schism in the Body: The Town Church in Crisis
2. Zion Travels: The Itinerant Enterprise
3. Scrambling for the Right: Disestablishment and the Town Church
4. 'Tis All on Fire: Landscapes of Religious Community
5. Fairly Missionary Ground: The Congregationalist Turn to Itinerancy
6. A City Set on a Hill: Northern New England's New Religious Geography
Conclusion: A Place of Paradoxes
Notes
Bibliography
Index