KENNETH L. WOODWARD, a scholar as well as one of the nation’s most respected journalists, served as Newsweek’s religion editor for nearly forty years, reporting from five continents and contributing more than seven hundred articles, including nearly one hundred cover stories, on a wide range of social issues, ideas, and movements. He is the author of Making Saints: How the Catholic Church Determines Who Becomes a Saint, Who Doesn’t, and Why and The Book of Miracles: The Meaning of the Miracle Stories in Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam.