About the Author

Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp is assistant professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Reviews

"In Religion and Society in Frontier California Laurie Maffly Kipp provides a wonderfully intriguing and beautifully written narrative about the efforts of American Protestant missionary groups to bring so-called immoral and irreligious gold seekers back into the Christian fold, about the miners' surprising responses, and about the unexpected roles women played in the effort. It is Maffly-Kipp's careful, probing, insightful analysis of a huge, much-neglected topic - religion in the American West, that makes this book so important."—Howard Lamar

"Beautifully written and artfully organized, the book is an original investigation of the impact of evangelical religion on frontier society."—Edwin S. Gaustad, professor emeritus of religion at the University of California at Riverside