Peter W. Williams is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion and American Studies at Miami University. He is the author of America's Religions: From Their Origins to the Twenty-first Century and Houses of God.

"I for one am glad he combined scholarship and chutzpah." -- Martin E. Marty. "The book's most immediate contribution is the lucid and rather graceful way that enormously complex notions, such as culture, symbol, modernization, religion, and, of course, popular religion, are unfolded in the American historical context." -- Journal of the Church and State

Peter W. Williams is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion and American Studies at Miami University. He is the author of America's Religions: From Their Origins to the Twenty-first Century and Houses of God.

"I for one am glad he combined scholarship and chutzpah." -- Martin E. Marty. "The book's most immediate contribution is the lucid and rather graceful way that enormously complex notions, such as culture, symbol, modernization, religion, and, of course, popular religion, are unfolded in the American historical context." -- Journal of the Church and State

Peter W. Williams is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion and American Studies at Miami University. He is the author of America's Religions: From Their Origins to the Twenty-first Century and Houses of God.

"I for one am glad he combined scholarship and chutzpah." -- Martin E. Marty. "The book's most immediate contribution is the lucid and rather graceful way that enormously complex notions, such as culture, symbol, modernization, religion, and, of course, popular religion, are unfolded in the American historical context." -- Journal of the Church and State