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James M. Ault, Jr. was educated at Harvard and Brandeis universities. After teaching at Harvard and at Smith College, he made his first film, Born Again, a portrait of this fundamentalist Baptist congregation, which won a Blue Ribbon at the American Film Festival and was broadcast in the United States and abroad in 1987. He has since produced and directed a variety of documentary programs for the Lilly Endowment, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Episcopal Church Foundation, and other organizations. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
The best single-volume explanation of why American fundamentalist Christianity thrives among certain people, what needs it fulfills and why it will not die out. The Washington Post Book World An absorbing, groundbreaking, and intimate tale. . . . An ethnographic study that often reads like a novel. The Christian Science Monitor Not just a first-rate piece of sociological journalism. Ault weaves his own story into the book, and . . . gives Spirit and Flesh a warmth and humanity that set it apart. The San Francisco Chronicle This brilliant book is essential for anyone who wants to better understand fundamentalism or for fundamentalists who desire to understand how they are viewed by others. Christianity Today
