My dissertation is an ethnographic study of women who have chosen to give birth at home, focusing on the religious motivations and interpretations that accompany their choices. The research is based on interviews with 45 home birthing women and several midwives, and participant observation at midwifery clinics, birth workshops, and home births. The majority of the women in my study are Christians and Jews of varying affiliations, such as Methodists, Catholics, Pentecostals, Christian Scientists, Amish, Reform, and Orthodox. Ethnically, the women are primarily Euro-American, but a few are from Hispanic and African-American traditions. Writing about such a religiously diverse group of women who have made similar choices to practice a minority method of childbirth has allowed me to reflect on religious currents in North America, and how notions of home, gender, the body, nature, and pain are religiously interpreted and practiced by these women. I also analyze the ways in which women use the terms “religion” and “spirituality” to describe their home birth experiences, finding that they eschew the former for the latter, similar to wider uses of the terms. I close with reflections on how home birth shapes women’s constructions and practices of gender, based in maternal experience, and by asking what women’s experiences of home birth can tell us about “lived religion” in terms of life cycle rites, women’s religious lives, and scholarly approaches to religion.