Brenda Brasher offers fresh insight into the experiences of fundamentalist women, the subtleties of their passions, and the power of their convictions. An engaging account, exploding many of our old stereotypes. — Wade Clark Roof, J. F. Rowny Professor of Religion and Society, University of California, Santa Barbara.
A careful ethnography at a time when ethnography is very welcome in religious scholarship. Brasher's nuanced analysis of authority and power encourages scholars of women and religion to see otherwise familiar phenomena in a different light. — Virginia Brereton, author of From Sin to Salvation: Stories of Women's Conversions, 1800 to Present