Ann Taves

Ann Taves is Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including Fits, Trances, and Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James (Princeton, 1999); Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things (Princeton, 2009); and, most recently, Revelatory Events: Three Case Studies of the Emergence of New Spiritual Paths (Princeton, 2016), which includes Mormonism as one of the three emergent paths.