Brenda E. Brasher is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy of Mount Union College. She did her undergraduate study at I.U.P.U.I, an M.Div. at Christian Theological Seminary, and took her Ph.D. at the University of Southern California in Religion (Social Ethics). She is the author of Godly Women: Fundamentalism and Female Power (Rutgers University Press, 1998) and Give Me that Online Religion: Churches, Cults and Community in the Information Age (Jossey-Bass, 2000).