Author: Charles L. Cohen

Charles L. Cohen is professor of history and religious studies and director of the Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic religions at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of God”s Caress: The Psychology of Puritan Religious Experience. Paul S. Boyer is Merle Curti Professor of History Emeritus and former director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His many books include Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press; When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture; and Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft with Stephen Nissenbaum.