Emily Suzanne Clark, Ph.D., is associate professor of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University, where she teaches and researches American Religions. She is the author of the multi-award-winning book, A Luminous Brotherhood: Afro-Creole Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans and co-editor of Race and New Religious Movements in the USA: A Documentary Reader. When not teaching, reading, or researching, she can be found hiking and running about the area and playing soccer in the local Spokane adult leagues.