BILL J. LEONARD is the founding dean and professor emeritus of the Divinity School at Wake Forest University. He holds a PhD degree from Boston University. His research focuses on church history with particular attention to American religion, Baptist studies, and religion in Appalachia. A popular speaker and author of around twenty-five books, he has given lectures at a variety of universities. He lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

With deft analysis and elegant prose, Bill Leonard provides a succinct history of a fascinating, though long overlooked, element of American religion. Appalachian Mountain Christianity takes its place along side Deborah Vansau McCauley’s work as the definitive history of religion in Appalachia.

BILL J. LEONARD is the founding dean and professor emeritus of the Divinity School at Wake Forest University. He holds a PhD degree from Boston University. His research focuses on church history with particular attention to American religion, Baptist studies, and religion in Appalachia. A popular speaker and author of around twenty-five books, he has given lectures at a variety of universities. He lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

With deft analysis and elegant prose, Bill Leonard provides a succinct history of a fascinating, though long overlooked, element of American religion. Appalachian Mountain Christianity takes its place along side Deborah Vansau McCauley’s work as the definitive history of religion in Appalachia.

BILL J. LEONARD is the founding dean and professor emeritus of the Divinity School at Wake Forest University. He holds a PhD degree from Boston University. His research focuses on church history with particular attention to American religion, Baptist studies, and religion in Appalachia. A popular speaker and author of around twenty-five books, he has given lectures at a variety of universities. He lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

With deft analysis and elegant prose, Bill Leonard provides a succinct history of a fascinating, though long overlooked, element of American religion. Appalachian Mountain Christianity takes its place along side Deborah Vansau McCauley’s work as the definitive history of religion in Appalachia.