Jana Riess

JANA RIESS is a writer, editor, and scholar of American religions with a PhD in American religious history from Columbia University. Her recent books include The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church, The Prayer Wheel and Flunking Sainthood.

Riess served as religion book review editor for Publishers Weekly from 1999 to 2008 and is currently a senior columnist for Religion News Service. Flunking Sainthood was named one of Publishers Weekly’s top ten religion books of the year it was published. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in religion from Wellesley College and a master’s degree in theology from Princeton Theological Seminary.

Jana lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Jana Riess’s books are published by SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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