Catherine A. Brekus is Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America at Harvard Divinity School. She graduated from Harvard University with a BA in the history and literature of England and America, and she holds a PhD in American Studies from Yale University. She is the author of Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740–1845, and Sarah Osborn’s World: The Rise of Evangelicalism in Early America. She is also the editor of The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past, and the coeditor (with W. Clark Gilpin) of American Christianities: A History of Dominance and Diversity.