Randall J. Stephens

Randall J. Stephens is Professor of American and British Studies at the University of Oslo. He previously taught at colleges and universities in the US and the UK. From 2006 to 2014 he was an editor of Historically Speaking. Stephens is the author of The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South (Harvard University Press, 2008, 2010); The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2011, 2012), co-authored with Karl Giberson; and editor of Recent Themes in American Religious History, Historians in Conversation Series (University of South Carolina Press, 2009). His latest book is The Devil's Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock 'n' Roll (Harvard University Press, 2018).

In 2008 Stephens was named a Top Young Historian by George Mason University's History News Network. He was a Fulbright Roving Scholar in American Studies (Norway) in 2011-12. Since 2013 he has been an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Independent, Christian Century, Salon, Wilson Quarterly, History Today, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Religion Dispatches, Christian Century, and the Atlantic.

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