David W. Kling (PhD University of Chicago) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Miami. He is author of A Field of Divine Wonders: The New Divinity and Village Revivals in Northwestern Connecticut 1792-1822 (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993), A History of Christian Conversion (Oxford University Press, 2020), and The Bible in History: How the Texts Have Shaped the Times (2nd edition) (Oxford University Press, 2023).