Philip Goff is the Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture and Chancellor's Professor of Religious Studies, American Studies, and History at IUPUI. Since 2000, he has been co-editor of Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation. His current research is focused on the history of religious radio in the United States.

Arthur E. Farnsley II is director of the Indiana University Center for Civic Literacy and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at IUPUI. His books have been about the politics of the Southern Baptist Convention, the role of congregations in faith-based welfare reform, and the ways religious culture shapes and is shaped by urban growth and development. His popular writing has appeared in Christianity Today, Christian Century, and in newspapers across the country, as well as in his most recent book, Flea Market Jesus.

Peter J. Thuesen is Professor of Religious Studies at IUPUI and Co-Editor of Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation. His publications include Predestination: The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine (OUP) and In Discordance with the Scriptures: American Protestant Battles over Translating the Bible (OUP).

Philip Goff
Arthur Farnsley
Peter Thuesen
Linford D. Fisher
Jan Stievermann
Robert E. Brown
Beth Schweiger
Emerson B. Powery
Amy Easton-Flake
Sylvester Johnson
Matthew Avery Sutton
B.M. Pietsch
Paul Harvey
Christopher D. Cantwell
Jason A. Hentschel
Daniel Vaca
Claudia Setzer
Garrett Spivey
Corwin Smidt
Russell W. Dalton
John F. Kutsko
John B. Weaver
Bryan Bibb
Amanda Friesen
J. Derrick Lemons
Paul Gutjahr
James S. Bielo
Daniel Silliman
Sara M. Patterson
Mark Noll

"The breadth of the essays on offer in this volume is truly impressive... This book, or selected essays in it, could be put to excellent use in a variety of college courses, whether introductory or higher level, as well as being of use to anyone who wants to learn and think deeply about the historic and ongoing presence and influence of the Bible in daily American life." --Kipp Gilmore-Clough, Religion

"Goff, Farnsley, and Thuesen have prepared a feast full of fat insights and sweet research. The questions they raise will enable pastors and professors to better prepare sermons and classes with an eye toward ecumenical dialogue."--Christian Century

"[T]his text adds to the growing library of scholarship that seeks to understand how we, as Americans, arrived at our public discourses regarding the bible and Christianity in general, and perhaps, to remind us all that the Bible has been and remains more than a political tool."--Reading Religion

"This collection of essays offers a cornucopia of new data, old data cast in fresh light, clear writing, deep research, and arresting insights about the unparalleled role of the Bible in American culture. The editors' introductory summary of recent quantitative studies of the Bible's presence in contemporary daily life, and Mark Noll's rumination on the meaning of the Bible for understanding the nation's history, form impressive bookends for two-dozen ground-breaking chapters, crafted by experts in American religion. Collections come and go, but this one will stand the test of time."--Grant Wacker, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Christian History, Duke Divinity School