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In a cultural climate where “nones,” “exvangelicals,” and atheists often capture scholarly and media attention, Jana Harmon shifts our gaze in an altogether different direction. Through surveys and extensive interviews of fifty former atheists, Harmon documents the dramatic change in beliefs, identity, and sense of purpose by former atheists who discovered in (primarily evangelical) Christianity a more credible, coherent, and intellectually satisfying view of reality. Attentive to recent theories and methods in the study of religious conversion—indeed, to the complexities of the conversion process—Harmon’s book is a significant and welcomed contribution to contemporary studies on religious conversion.

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David W. Kling, University of Miami