What Simmons does best is use Kenyon as a window through which to peer into the world of late-Victorian evangelicalism...Simmons has done a nice job of creatively complicating our picture of evangelical religion in the early twentieth century by showing just how fluid and amorphous was the Protestant culture of postbellum America.

Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture

Anyone trying to understand...new religious movements, or important elements of the religious vitality and ferment which marked the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in North America, should read this book.

Nova Religio: The Journal Of Alternative And Emergent Religions

"Simmons has skillfully organized his material, and the extensive footnotes and selected bibliography add to the book's usefulness..."

Choice Reviews