General editor's foreword /Denis R. Janz --Introduction :reforming from below /Peter Matheson --Part I.The life of faith --The piety of townspeople and city folk /Raymond A. Mentzer --Rural and village piety /Keith P. Luria --A people's reformation? /Margo Todd --Part II.From cradle to grave --Entering the world /David Cressy --Baptism and childhood /Karen E. Spierling --Women and men, together and apart /Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks --Leaving the world /Peter Marshall --Part III.Finding their voice --The dream of a just society /James M. Stayer --The emergence of lay theologies /Elsie McKee --Insiders and outsiders /Susan R. Boettcher --The language of the common folk /Peter Matheson.
xvi, 306 p., [8] p. of plates :ill. (some col.), maps ;25 cm.