Contents -- 1. The Protestant Ethic and the Melancholy Spirit -- Melancholia's Heirs: Max Weber and William James -- Martin Luther's Anfechtung -- John Calvin's Anxiety and Solicitude -- The Pattern Established-Evangelical Pietism -- 2. Evangelical Pietism in America -- The New England Way -- Cotton Mather -- Evangelical Nurture -- Tears of Repentance -- The Pattern Completed-Religious Awakenings and Revivals -- The Evangelical Grieving of Mary Fish -- 3. Evangelical Anorexia Nervosa -- Hannah Allen's Travail -- The Near-Death Experience of William Tennent, Jr. -- David Brainerd's Devotional Piety -- Samuel Hopkins and the New Divinity Movement -- Susanna Anthony -- The Exemplary Piety of Sarah Osborn -- Mary Moody Emerson -- Conclusion -- 4. What Hath God Wrought? Religious Melancholy in the Second Great Awakening -- The Evangelical Morphology of Conversion -- The Suicide of Benjamin Noyes -- 5. Sinners Who Would Fast unto Death -- Religion and Insanity -- Sinners Who Would Fast unto Death -- Unpardonable Sin and Religious Melancholy -- Melancholia Attonita -- Starving Perfectionists -- Conclusion -- 6. The Passing Away of Religious Melancholy? -- The Billy Graham Crusades: Fundamentalism as a Popular Devotional Religious Movement -- The Melancholy Apologetics of Edward J. Carnell -- Religious Melancholy and Contemporary Christian Biography -- The Future of Religious Melancholy -- Appendix A: Pastoral Care -- Appendix B: Revivalists As Mediatorial Elites -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.