Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-229) and index.

The view to the West -- A central role for priests -- "Presumptuous renegades" : controlling priests and congregations -- Making sacred place : churches and religious goods -- The promise and risks of proximity on the frontier -- Emphatic persuasion : teaching, processions, preaching, and polemics.

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Frontiers of Faith: Bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic examines how Catholics in the early nineteenth-century Ohio Valley- despite the evangelical success of the Protestant faith during the Second Great Awakening-expanded their church, strengthened their connections to Rome, and sought fellowship with their non-Catholic neighbors.

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