Joel Carpenter is provost and professor of history (emeritus) at Calvin University. Until 2019 he was the founding director of Calvin’s Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity, and he now serves as Senior Research Fellow. He also chairs the board of Langham Partnership USA. Dr. Carpenter has published extensively in the field of American religious history, most notably Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism (Oxford, 1997). He has edited or co-edited six books in that field, most recently Christianity and Social Change in Contemporary Africa (Langaa, 2020), and Christianity in India: Conversion, Community Development, and Religious Freedom (Fortress, 2018). He earned his degrees in history at Calvin College (B.A.) and Johns Hopkins University (M.A. and Ph.D.).