Introduction: A reorienting view from the center of the country / by Richard J. Callahan, Jr. -- The religious landscape of the Louisiana Purchase / by Peter W. Williams -- Conflicting destinies : religion, sex, and violence in the Louisiana Purchase / by Amanda Porterfield -- Wide open spaces : the trail of tears, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and gaps in the national memory / by Michael J. Zogry -- Crossroads, the cosmos, and jazz in the heartland : Oklahoma City's deep deuce and Kansas City's Vine Street / by Douglas Henry Daniels -- The shifting nature of reform envisioned on the Mississippi Steamer : exchanges, masks, and charities in Herman Melville's the confidence-man / by Carole Lynn Stewart -- Mixed-race ecstasy across a single line : the deep south roots of Pentecostal tongue speaking / by Elaine J. Lawless -- Vodou purchase : the Louisiana Purchase in the Caribbean world / by Paul Christopher Johnson -- Spirituality and resistance among African-Creoles / by John Stewart -- New Orleans as an American city : origins, exchanges, materialities, and religion / by Charles H. Long. |