Randall J. Stephens is a Reader in American Studies and History at Northumbria University. He was an editor of Historically Speaking (2006-2014) and is associate editor of Fides et Historia, Stephens is the author of The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South (Harvard University Press, 2008). In 2011 the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press published his book, The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age, on conservative evangelical experts, co-authored with Karl Giberson. He is currently working on a book titled The Devil's Music: Christianity and Rock since the 1950s (under contract with Harvard University Press). In 2008 Stephens was named a Top Young Historian by George Mason University's History New Network. He was a Fulbright Roving Scholar in American Studies (Norway) in spring 2012. Since 2013 he has been an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer. Stephens has also written for the New York Times, Christian Century, Salon, Wilson Quarterly, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Religion Dispatches, Books and Culture, and the Atlantic blog.See more at:https://northumbria.academia.edu/RandallStephenshttp://www.oah.org/lectures/lecturers/view/1730http://usreligion.blogspot.com/