Leigh Eric Schmidt is the Edward C. Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is on the faculty of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics. His books include Village Atheists: How America’s Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation (Princeton); Heaven’s Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and Madwoman; and Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment.
