Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Religious Landscape of the Louisiana Purchase -- 2. Conflicting Destinies: Religion, Sex, and Violence in the Louisiana Purchase -- 3. Wide Open Spaces The: Trail of Tears, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and Gaps in the National Memory -- 4. Crossroads, the Cosmos, and Jazz in the Heartland: Oklahoma City's Deep Deuce and Kansas City's Vine Street -- 5. The Shifting Nature of Reform Envisioned on the Mississippi Steamer: Exchanges, Masks, and Charities in Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man -- 6. Mixed-Race Ecstasy across a Single Line: The Deep South Roots of Pentecostal Tongue Speaking -- 7. Vodou Purchase: The Louisiana Purchase in the Caribbean World -- 8. Spirituality and Resistance among African-Creoles -- 9. New Orleans as an American City: Origins, Exchanges, Materialities, and Religion -- Contributors -- Index.