Candy Gunther Brown

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Candy Gunther Brown (Ph.D. Harvard University) is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University. Brown is author of The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880 (University of North Carolina Press, 2004); Testing Prayer: Science and Healing (Harvard University Press, 2012); The Healing Gods: Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Christian America (Oxford University Press, 2013); and Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion? (University of North Carolina Press, 2019). She is editor of Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing (Oxford University Press, 2011), and co-editor (with Mark Silk) of The Future of Evangelicalism in America (Columbia University Press, 2016).

Experience

  • 2006–present
    Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University (Bloomington)
  • 2001–2006
    Assistant Professor of American Studies, Saint Louis University
  • 2000–2001
    Assistant Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

Education

  • 2000 
    Harvard University, Ph.D.
  • 1995 
    Harvard University, M.A.
  • 1992 
    Harvard University, B.A.

Publications

  • 2019
    Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion?, University of North Carolina Press
  • 2016
    The Future of Evangelicalism in America, Columbia University Press
  • 2013
    The Healing Gods: Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Christian America, Oxford University Press
  • 2012
    Testing Prayer: Science and Healing, Harvard University Press
  • 2011
    Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing, Oxford University Press
  • 2004
    The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880, University of North Carolina Press

Professional Memberships

  • American Academy of Religion
  • American Society of Church History (President, 2017)

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