Acknowledgments
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Great appreciation goes to the Earhart Foundation and to Baylor University for grants and travel assistance for the project. Thanks to my Baylor assistant Tim Grundmeier, who did exemplary work in helping prepare the whole manuscript, as well as to Baylor assistants Eric Brandt and Lucas Miller, who helped process sources; to David Ceri Jones for help in tracking down the far-flung repositories of Whitefield’s papers; to Keith Beebe for guidance on the Cambuslang revival testimonies; to Philippa Koch for assistance on Whitefield’s correspondence with German Pietists; library staffs, including those at the Evangelical Library, Dr. Williams’s Library, the British Library, Drew University, Duke University, Emory University, Southern Methodist University, and, especially, Baylor University, for their help in compiling sources. Thanks to my mentors and friends George Marsden and David Bebbington, who as always gave excellent advice about the project; to my friend and colleague Joe Stubenrauch for reading the manuscript, and to my friend and literary agent Giles Anderson. Anonymous readers for Yale University Press made many constructive suggestions for improving the manuscript. Thanks to my wonderful Baylor colleagues in the history department and the Institute for Studies of Religion, including Jeff Hamilton, Byron Johnson, Barry Hankins, and Philip Jenkins, for their support and encouragement. It has been a pleasure to work with the publishing team at Yale University Press, especially my editor Chris Rogers. Finally, I am so grateful for my family’s love and support. Without Ruby, I could not do what I do.