Charles L. Cohen is Professor of History and Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Ronald L. Numbers is Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

R. Scott Appleby is Professor of History and the John M. Regan, Jr. Director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Paul S. Boyer (deceased) was Merle Curti Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Wisconsin.

Bret E. Carroll is Professor of History at California State University, Stanislaus.

John H. Evans is Professor of Sociology and chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego.

R. Marie Griffith is Director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics at Washington University in St. Louis, where she serves as the John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences

Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad is Professor of the History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Charles H. Lippy is the LeRoy A. Martin Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus, at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Martin Marty is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, at the University of Chicago.

Stephanie Y. Mitchem is Chair of the Department of Religious Studies and Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of South Carolina.

Deborah Dash Moore is Frederick C. L. Huetwell Professor of History at the University of Michigan and Director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies.

Shawn Francis Peters teaches in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin.

Amanda Porterfield is the Robert A. Spivey Professor of Religion and Director of Graduate Studies in Religion at Florida State University.

William Vance Trollinger, Jr. is Associate Professor of History and Religious Studies at the University of Dayton.

Thomas A. Tweed is the Shive, Lindsay, and Gray Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Joanne Punzo Waghorne is Professor of Religion at Syracuse University.

Peter W. Williams is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Religion and American Studies and Faculty Affiliate in History at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

"Gods in America boasts a stunning list of notable contributors... [this collection] is not only an exceptional survey of the topic and a thorough introduction to many of its related themes, but is also a useful collection for thinking about fruitful questions for the future." --Religion in American History

"There is no better point of entry to the study of American religious diversity that this carefully constructed volume of essays by leading scholars of the various faith traditions now visible in the United States. The authors not only present the most important historical facts, but reflect discerningly on the theoretical issues of pluralism and authenticity." -- David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor, University of California, Berkeley