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
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2006–presentProfessor of Religious Studies, Indiana University (Bloomington)
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2001–2006Assistant Professor of American Studies, Saint Louis University
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2000–2001Assistant Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
Education
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2000Harvard University, Ph.D.
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1995Harvard University, M.A.
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1992Harvard University, B.A.
Publications
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2019Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion?, University of North Carolina Press
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2016The Future of Evangelicalism in America, Columbia University Press
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2013The Healing Gods: Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Christian America, Oxford University Press
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2012Testing Prayer: Science and Healing, Harvard University Press
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2011Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing, Oxford University Press
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2004The 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)
- Bloomington, IN, USA
- Website
- @candygbrown
- Article Feed
- browncg@indiana.edu
- ORCID
- Joined
