John Wigger

Professor Wigger teaches American history at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. His research interests focus on American cultural and religious history.

His publications include the following books:

PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Evangelical Empire
American Saint: Francis Asbury and the Methodists
Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America, 1770-1820
Methodism and the Shaping of American Culture, co-edited with Nathan Hatch.