Alan Wolfe is professor of political science and Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. Among his other publications are An Intellectual in Public (2003) and One Nation, After All (1998).  A contributing editor of The New Republic and The Wilson Quarterly he also writes for Commonweal, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly and The Washington Post.

In reviewing the book R. Stephen Warner writes:  “What Wolfe and his sources document are folkways by which American lay people – Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, but especially evangelicals – actually live their religion, not the texts through which their spokesmen and their scriptures officially define it.

The book is published by Free Press.