Candy Gunther Brown

Candy Gunther Brown (Ph.D. Harvard University) is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University. Dr. Brown is the author of Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion? (University of North Carolina Press, 2019); The Healing Gods: Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Christian America (Oxford University Press, 2013); Testing Prayer: Science and Healing (Harvard University Press, 2012); and The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880 (University of North Carolina Press, 2004). She is co-editor (with Mark Silk) of The Future of Evangelicalism in America (Columbia University Press, 2016), and editor of Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing (Oxford University Press, 2011). Brown has served as expert witness in four legal challenges to school yoga and meditation—testifying for parents and school districts.