About the Author

is the LeRoy A. Martin Distinguished Professor of Religious
Studies Emeritus, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. A past president of the American Society of Church History, he has written or edited more than 20 books on American religious life. His most recentis Introducing American Religion, which appeared in 2009.

Charles H. Lippy is the LeRoy A. Martin Distinguished Professor of Religious
Studies Emeritus, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. A past president of the American Society of Church History, he has written or edited more than 20 books on American religious life. His most recent is Introducing American Religion, which appeared in 2009.

Peter W. Williams is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Religion and American Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. A past president of the American Society of Church History, he is the author of several books and editor of a number of reference sets, including the Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience (with Charles H. Lippy, 1988).