Book excerpt: "Cover"--"Contents"--"ACKNOWLEDGMENTS" -- "PREFACE" -- "CHAPTER ONE: The Primitive Baptists" -- "CHAPTER TWO: Orientations" -- "CHAPTER THREE: Multiplying by Dividing: Trouble at Low Valley" -- "CHAPTER FOUR: Interlude: Doctrine, Polity, History, and Form" -- "CHAPTER FIVE: Parallel Lives" -- "CHAPTER SIX: The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth" -- "CHAPTER SEVEN: Pilgrims and Paradoxes" -- "CHAPTER EIGHT: Theory and Ethnography" -- "APPENDIX A: 1983 Minutes of the Mountain District Primitive Baptist Association" -- "APPENDIX B: Excerpts from the London Meeting of 1689" -- "APPENDIX C: Number of Primitive Baptist Churches by State" -- "APPENDIX D: Demography of the Mountain District Primitive Baptist Association" -- "APPENDIX E: Membership of Churches in the Mountain District Association" -- "APPENDIX F: Characters and Their Affiliations" -- "APPENDIX G: Patterns of Reciprocity and Exclusion among the Churches" -- "APPENDIX H: Obituary of Elder Elmer Sparks" -- "APPENDIX I: Independent Protestants: Background Information" -- "NOTES" -- "INDEX" -- "A" -- "B" -- "C" -- "D" -- "E" -- "F" -- "G" -- "H" -- "I" -- "J" -- "K" -- "L" -- "M" -- "N" -- "O" -- "P" -- "Q" -- "R" -- "S" -- "T" -- "U" -- "V" -- "W" -- "Y