Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Religion and Society in Frontier California (Yale, 1994) and co-editor of Practicing Protestants: Histories of Christian Life in America, 1630-1965 (Johns Hopkins, 2006). Kathryn Lofton is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at Indiana University at Bloomington.