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Elle Hardy: How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking Over the World
Join us January 17 at noon AZ time as we welcome Elle Hardy. Her first book, Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking Over the World, was published by Oxford University Press in 2022. She’s currently working on her second book, about Reverend Moon and the Unification Church (aka the Moonies), for Simon & Schuster.
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Elle is an Australian-born writer who lives in New Orleans. She’s reported from every continent on earth, including places as far afield as Turkmenistan, Ethiopia, North Korea, and the backwoods of Alabama.
Writing credits include The Guardian, GQ and The New Republic, and in 2024 she received the Award of Excellence from the Religion Communicators Council for her story Demons be gone: meeting America’s new exorcists, for The Guardian – which features Arizonans.
Elle has also appeared in documentaries for Discovery+ and Beetota Advocate, co-hosted False Prophets for IHeartRadio, and is a regular on ABC Australia’s Planet America podcast.