Megan Goodwin, Ph.D., is a scholar of gender, race, sexuality, politics, and American religions. She is the author of Abusing Religion: Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions (Rutgers 2020).  "With Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, she cohosts Keeping It 101: A Killjoy’s Introduction to Religion Podcast  and is currently cowriting Religion Is Not Done with You (Beacon 2024). Her next book is tentatively entitled Cults Incorporated: The Business of Bad Religion.”