James Ault is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and author whose work often deals with religion. His first film, Born Again, about life in a fundamentalist Baptist church, won a Blue Ribbon at the American Film Festival and was broadcast as a national prime-time special on PBS and around the world. His book on that project, Spirit and Flesh (Knopf 2005) was named one of the five best nonfiction books of the year. He has produced, directed and sometimes shot, documentaries for, among others, the Lilly Endowment, the Association of Theological Schools, and the Episcopal Church Foundation. With funding from the Pew Charitable Trusts and the John Templeton Foundation he has just completed a two-part series on Christianity’s explosive growth in Africa. Educated at Harvard and Brandeis (Ph.D. in Sociology), he has taught sociology, ethnographic film, and documentary filmmaking at Smith College, UC San Diego and Calvin College.