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CURRICULUM VITAE
MARK SILK E-mail: mark.silk@trincoll.edu Home: Office 63
Highland Street
The Leonard E. Greenberg Center for 300 Summit Street Hartford, CT 06106-3100 Phone: (860) 297-2352 Fax: (860) 297-5125 EDUCATION 1972 A.B. Harvard College (History and Literature), magna cum laude 1982 Ph.D. Harvard
University (History). Dissertation: “Scientia rerum: the Place of
EMPLOYMENT 1982-85 Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University 1985-86 Editor, The Boston Review, Boston, MA 1985-86 Editorial assistant, Harvard University Press 1987-88 Staff writer, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 1988-92 Editorial writer and columnist, The Atlanta Constitution 1990-91 Editorial consultant, The Atlanta Jewish Times 1992-96 Staff writer, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 1995-96 Project Director, “The Future of Capitalism,” The Twentieth Century Fund 1996 Adjunct Professor of Religion, Emory University 1996- Director, The Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life and Associate Professor of the Study of Religion in Public Life, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut 1997-2000 Project Director, Lilly Endowment Regional Conferences on Religion and Journalism 1997-2001 Project Director, Pew Program on Religion and the News Media 1997- Editor, Religion in the News 2001-06 Project Director, Lilly Endowment Program on Religion by Region 2005- Director, Trinity College Program on Public Values
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Phi Beta Kappa, 1972 Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellow, 1975-76 Award for best article of the year, American Quarterly, 1984
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES
American Academy of Religion Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Editorial board of The Forum (magazine of the North American Jewish Forum/United Jewish Appeal), 1991-93. Project on Public Expressions of Religion in America, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, 1992-94. Standing Committee on the Public Understanding of Religion, American Academy of Religion, 1993-99. Lilly Endowment Consultation on Religion in American Life, February 20-22, 1996. Chair, Selection committee for The Leonard Silk Journalism Fellowship, Twentieth Century Fund, New York, 1996-2004. Convener, Media Forum on Religion, Politics and Society, Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC), Tufts University, April 18-20, 1996. Commentator, “Informing the Public: Historians and Journalists” (paper by Martin Marty) at “Something New, Something Old: Changes and Continuities in American Religious History, conference at the Harvard Divinity School, September 5-8, 1996. Planning Committee, AIDS National Interfaith Network Convocation, AIDS and Religion in America, 1997-98. Convener, Lilly Workshop for Journalists, Trinity College, Hartford, April 24-25, 1997. Advisory Board, Office of Prison Ministry, Roman Catholic Diocese of Norwich, Conn., 1997-98. Respondent, “The (R)uses of ‘Judeo-Christian,’” panel at American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 23, 1997. Presider, “Religion and AIDS Prevention: The Faith Initiative of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,” Special Topic Forum at American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 24, 1997. Consultant on Religion and the New Media, Lilly Endowment Religion Program December, 1997. Board, Independent Broadcasting Associates/World Eagle, 1998- Finalist Selection Committee, Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion, 1998. Convener, Lilly Workshop for Journalists, Poynter Center, Indiana University, May 24-25, 1998. Convener, Lilly Workshop for Journalists, University of Washington, July 12-13, 1998. Convener, Lilly Workshop for Journalists, St. Thomas University, Minneapolis, October 18-19, 1998. Respondent, “Ironies and Impacts of Religion in Israel,” panel at Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting, Montreal, November 7, 1998. Review Committee for the National Institute for Healthcare Research, John Templeton Foundation, November-December, 1998. Convener, Lilly Workshop for Journalists, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, February 25- 26, 1999. Advisory Board, Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion at Yale, January, 1999-2002. Convener, Pew Workshop for Journalists on Religion and American Politics, Trinity College, Hartford, April 25-26, 1999. Convener, Lilly Workshop for Journalists, University of California, Santa Barbara, June 13-14, 1999. Convener, “The Origins of the Judeo-Christian Tradition, Reconsidered,” an international conference for North American and Israeli scholars, Trinity College, Hartford, June 23-26. Advisory Board, Gralla Fellows Program for Religion Journalists, Brandeis University, 1999-. Chair, Panel on international religion coverage, 3rd International Conference on Religion, Media and Culture, Edinburgh, July 22, 1999. Roundtable Panel, Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, New York, September 24, 1999. Convener, Conference on Religious Persecution as a U.S. Policy Issue, Trinity College, Hartford, September 26-7. Convener, Lilly Workshop for Journalists, University of Toronto, Toronto, October 24-25, 1999. Planning Meeting on Religion, the Arts, and the Press, National Arts Journalism Program, Columbia Journalism School, New York, November 7, 1999. Discussion Leader, “Matters of Faith: Religion in American Public Life,” American Assembly, Arden House, Harriman, New York, March 23-26. Convener, Lilly Workshop for Journalists, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., March 30 31, 2000. Convener, Pew Workshop for Journalists on Religion and International News, Trinity College, Hartford, April 2-3, 2000. Juror, American Academy of Religion journalism award, 2000-. Participant, Conference on Religion and Foreign Policy, United States Department of State, Washington, D.C., May 11, 2000. Respondent, “Journalism and Religion” Communications Committee Meeting, United States Catholic Conference, June 7, 2000. Convener, Wrap-up Conference, Lilly Workshops for Journalists, Hartford, June 25-26, 2000. Convener, Pew Workshop for Journalists on Religion and Urban Issues in the Era of Charitable Choice,” Trinity College, Hartford, February 4-5, 2001. Member, Advisory Board, American Academy of Religion News Media Referral Service, 2001-03. Member, Publicity Committee, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2001-2. Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Media and Religion, 2001- Judge, Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism, 2001- Advisory Board, Religionsource (American Academy of Religion), 2001-3. Discussant, “From Jesse Jackson to Elian Gonzalez: Using Topoi to Analyze Religion in the News,” refereed paper session, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, August, 5, 2001. Panel of Advisors, 4th International Conference on Media, Religion, & Culture, 2002-04. Presenter and moderator, Workshop on Religion and the Media, Auburn Seminary, April 25-26, 2002. National Program Advisory Board, First Freedom Center, Richmond, Va., 2003- Finalist Selection Committee, Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion, 2003. Participant, Roundtable on Catholicism in the Public Square, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., May 13, 2003. Convener, Conference for journalists on Religion and the 2004 Election Campaign, Trinity College, September 14-15, 2003. Chair, Religion, Culture, and Communication Consultation, American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, November 23, 2003. Moderator, Religion in Politics: The 2004 Election, Jewish Council for Public Affairs, New York City, June 7, 2004. Faculty member, “Political Religions from Antiquity to Postmodernity,” Third Spring School in Comparative History, Institute for Advanced Study, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 9-17, 2004. Judge, Templeton Journalism Award, Religion Newswriters Association, 2005. Participant, Chautauqua Roundable on Religion and the Media, New York City, June 15, 2005. Participant, Wingspread Conference on Religion and Public Life: Engaging the Academy, Racine, Wisconsin, July 13-15, 2005. Chair, Panel on “Religion by Region: Competing Pluralisms,” American Society of Church History, Philadelphia, Jan. 6, 2006. Chair, Panels on America in the Mind of Evangelicals, Jewish Council for Public Affairs, Annual Plenum, Washington, D.C., February 27, 2006. Panelist, “Religion and the Media,” Course on “Building Abrahamic Partnerships,” Hartford Seminary, June 13, 2006. Contributing Editor, The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 2006- Panelist, Journalists’ Round-Table, Gralla Fellows Program for Religion Journalists, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., July 20, 2006.
PUBLICATIONS
Books: (with Leonard Silk) The American Establishment. New York: Basic Books, 1980. Spiritual Politics: Religion and America Since World War II. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. [2nd edition. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, forthcoming] Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in America. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995. (with Leonard Silk) Making Capitalism Work. New York: New York University Press, 1996. (with Andrew Walsh) One Nation Divisible: Religion and Public Life in America Today. Lanham, MD: Altamira, forthcoming.
Edited volumes: Religion and American Politics: The 2000 Election in Context. Hartford: Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, 2000. (with Rosalind I.J. Hackett and Dennis Hoover) Religious Persecution as a U.S. Policy Issue. Hartford: Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, 2000. Religion on the International News Agenda. Hartford: Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, 2000. (with Patricia O’Connell Killen) Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone. Lanham, MD: Altamira, 2004. (with Jan Shipps) Religion and Public Life in the Mountain West: Sacred Landscapes in Tension. Lanham, MD: Altamira, 2004. (with Philip Barlow) Religion and Public Life in the Midwest:Heartland as Common Denominator. Lanham, MD: Altamira, 2004. (with Andrew Walsh) Religion and Public Life in New England: Steady Habits, Changing Slowly. Lanham, MD: Altamira, 2004. (with William Lindsey) Religion and Public Life in the Southern Crossroads: Showdown States. Lanham, MD: Altamira, 2004. (with Charles Reagan Wilson) Religion and Public Life in the South: In the Evangelical Mode. Lanham, MD: Altamira, 2005. (with Wade Clark Roof) Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Region: Fluid Identities. Lanham, MD: Altamira, 2005. (with Randall Balmer) Religion and Public Life in the Middle Atlantic: The Fount of Diversity. Lanham, MD: Altamira, 2006.
Peer-reviewed articles, essays, book chapters, and reviews “Notes on the Judeo-Christian Tradition in America,” American Quarterly 36, no.1 (Spring 1984), 65-85. “The Rise of the ‘New Evangelism’: Shock and Adjustment,” in William R. Hutchison, ed., Between the Times: The Travail of the Protestant Establishment in America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 278-299. Review of Robert Wuthnow, The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988), Journal of Religion 69 (October 1989), 559. Review of Harry J. Ausmus, Will Herberg: From Right to Right (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1987) and David G. Dalin, ed., From Marxism to Judaism: The Collected Essays of Will Herberg (New York: Markus Weiner Publishing, 1989), American Jewish History 80, no.1 (Autumn 1990), 122-24. “Journalists With Attitude: A Response to Richardson and Van Driel,” Review of Religious Research 39, no. 2 (December 1997), 137-43. Review of Stewart Hoover, Religion in the News: Faith and Journalism in American Public Discourse (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998), Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 39, no.2 (2000), 250-51. Review of Judith M. Buddenbaum, Reporting News about Religion: Introduction for Journalists (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1998), Journal of the American Academy of Religion 69 (June 2001), 484-86. “Gibson’s Passion: A Case Study in Media Manipulation?” Journal of Religion and Society 6 (2004), http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2004/2004-4.html. “Numa Pompilius and the Idea of Civil Religion in the West,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 72, no. 4 (December 2004), 863-96. “Why the Papers Love the Scrolls,” Dead Sea Discoveries 12, no. 1 (2005), 95-100. “Religion and Region in American Public Life, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 44, no. 3 (2005), 265-70. “Forum: Electronic Media and the Study of American Religion,” Religion and American Culture 16, no. 1 (Winter 2006), 13-18. Review of Thomas J. Carty, A Catholic in the White House? Religion, Politics, and John F. Kennedy’s Presidential Campaign (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), American Historical Review 111, no. 2 (June 2006), 869. Review of Edward T. Brett, The U.S. Catholic Press on Central America: From Cold War Anticommunism to Social Justice (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003), Church History, forthcoming. Review of Claire Hoertz Badaracco, ed., Quoting God: How Media Shape Ideas about Religion and Culture (Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2005), Church History, forthcoming. Review of Corwin E. Smidt, ed., Pulpit and Politics: Clergy in American Politics at the Advent of the Millennium (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2004), Church History, forthcoming. “John of Salisbury and the Civic Utility of Religion,” in Rachel Fulton and Bruce Holsinger, eds., History in the Comic Mode (New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming in 2007). “Toward a Regional Understanding of American Religious Pluralism,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, forthcoming in 2007. “American Jewry and the ‘Protestant Question,’” Studies in Contemporary Jewry 24, forthcoming in 2007.
Other articles, essays, and book chapters (selected): “Introduction,” Gerard de Malynes, England’s View In the Unmasking of Two Paradoxes (1603), Arno Press, New York, 1972. “Introduction,” The Usury Debate After Adam Smith: Two Nineteenth Century Essays, Arno Press, New York, 1972. “Religious Books: Is God a Feminist,” The New York Times Book Review, April 11, 1982. “Religious Books: Seven that Made a Difference,” The New York Times Book Review, March 30, 1986. “Judeo-Christian Tradition,” entry in the Dictionary of Christianity in America (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1990), 602-603. “Who Will Rewire America,” Columbia Journalism Review (May/June, 1992), 45-48. “Anti-Semitism at Moriah VI,” The Forum 4 no.1 (Summer/Autumn) 1991, 21-22. “The Place of American Jews in the American Political Process, A “Symposium” [with others], The Forum 4 no.4 (Summer, 1992), 4-10. “Atlanta Report: A Political Sport,” City Limits 20, no. 7 (August/September, 1995), 12-13. A Religion Scholar’s Guide to Dealing with the News Media, American Academy of Religion, Atlanta [1995]. “The New Antisecularism: Right for the Jews?” in Jerome R. Chanes, ed., Antisemitism in America Today: Outspoken Experts Explode the Myths (New York: Birch Lane, 1995), 295-310. “Same-sex Unions in Premodern Utah,” Linguafranca (July/August, 1996), 21-23. “Can the Spirit Move Them,” New York Times (op-ed), December 25, 1996. Something New, Something Old: Changes and Continuities in American Religious History, Lilly Endowment, Cambridge, Mass., 1998. “Why Religion in the News?” Religion in the News 1, no. 1 (June 1998). “Where Preachers Fear to Tread: The Clinton Scandal,” Religion in the News 1, no. 1 (June, 1998). “Clinton’s Domestic Agenda,” Hartford Courant (op-ed), September 18, 1998.“A New Establishment?” Religion in the News 1, no. 2 (Fall 1998). “Handling Pedophilia,” Religion in the News 1, no. 2 (Fall 1998). “A Civil Religious Affair,” Religion in the News 2, no. 1 (Spring 1999). “A Different Spiritual Politics,” Religion in the News 2, no. 2 (Summer 1999). “Something Wiccan This Way Comes,” Religion in the News 2, no. 2 (Summer 1999). “The BVM at the BMA,” Religion in the News 2, no. 3 (Fall 1999). “The Judeo-Christian Tradition,” in Wade Clark Roof, ed., Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Religion, (New York: Macmillan, 1999). “Religion and the Media,” in Wade Clark Roof, ed., Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Religion (New York: Macmillan, 1999). “Wars of Religion,” Religion in the News 3, no. 1 (Spring 2000). “Disestablishing Football,” Religion in the News 3, no. 2 (Summer 2000). “Preacher Joe,” Religion in the News 3, no. 3 (Fall 2000). “yes, Virginia, there is separation of church and state,” The Reporter 50, no. 4 (Winter 2000). “Religion Preferred—But Still Feared,” Hartford Courant (Commentary section), January 21, 2001. “Old Alliance, New Ground Rules,” Washington Post (Outlook section), February 18, 2001. “Faith in Justice: The Ashcroft Fight,” Religion in the News 4, no. 1 (Spring 2001). “The Minister, the Rabbi, and the Baccalaureate,” Religion in the News 4, no. 2 (Summer 2001). “War Has Tested Tolerance Before,” Hartford Courant, (Commentary section), October 8, 2001. “The Civil Religion Goes to War,” Religion in the News 4, no. 3 (Fall 2001). “Islam is Everywhere,”
Religion in the News 4, no. 3 (Fall 2001). December 2, 2001. “The Media vs. the Church,” Religion in the News 5, no. 1 (Spring 2002). “Homo Religiosus: By Nature or By Culture?” in Berel Lang, ed., Method & Truth: The Search for Norms Across the Disciplines (Trinity College, 2002), 59-67. “Church State Entanglement,” Religion in the News 5, no. 2 (Summer 2002). “Our Muslim Neighbors,” Religion in the News 5, no. 3 (Fall 2002). “The Worst Kind of Scandal,” Hartford Courant, December 15, 2002. “It’s Not Our Freedom That They Hate,” Hartford Courant, April 4, 2003. “The GOP Gets Religion,” Religion in the News 6, no. 1 (Spring 2003). “Islam and the American News Media post September 11,” in Jolyon Mitchell and Sophia Marriage, eds., Mediating Religion: Conversations in Media, Religion and Culture (New York: T&T Clark, 2003), 73-79. “St. Francis to the Rescue,”Religion in the News 6, no. 2 (Summer 2003). “Religion in the News,” in Gary Laderman and Luis León, ed., Religion and American Cultures (Santa Barabara-Denver-Oxford: ABC Clio, 2003), 455-57. “Under Whatever,” Religion in the News 6, no. 3 (Fall 2003). (with John Green) “The New Religion Gap,” Religion in the 2004 Election, supplement to Religion in the News 6, no. 3 (Fall 2003). “A Season for Regaining Innocence,” Hartford Courant, December 25, 2003. “One Man, One Woman: One of Many Traditions,” Hartford Courant, February 29, 2004. “Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice? No,” in Margaret O’Brien Steinfels, ed., American Catholics, American Culture: Tradition & Resistance (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), 174-77. “Journalistically Ignorant,” Religion in the News 7, no. 1 (Spring 2004). (with John Green) “Gendering the Religion Gap,” Religion in the News 7, no. 1 (Spring 2004). “Shocked, Shocked,” Religion in the News 7, no. 2 (Summer 2004). “The Religion Gap,” Hartford Courant, October 24, 2004. “Almost a Culture War: The Making of the Passion Controversy,” in Shawn Landres and Michael Berenbaum, eds., After The Passion is Gone: American Religious Consequences (Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2004), 23-34. “Our New Religious Politics,” Religion in the News 7, no. 3 (Winter 2005). “Numa Pompilius and the Development of the Idea of Civil Religion in Western Thought,” in Teologie Politiche: Modelli a confronto, ed. Giovanni Filoramo (Brecia: Morcelliana, 2005), 335-56. (with John Green) “The New Religion Gap,” Religious Studies News 20, no. 2 (March 2005), 8, 21. “In Search of Non-secularist Democracy,” The Brandywine Review of Faith & International Affairs (Spring, 2005), 49-50. “My Search for Deep Throat,” Hartford Courant, June 3, 2005. “What’s in a Name,” Religion in the News 8, no. 1 (Spring 2005). (with John Green) “Why Moral Values Did Count,” Religion in the News 8, no. 1 (Spring 2005). “On Aug. 29, some say South Mississippians were…‘Sinners in the hands of an angry God,’”Biloxi Sun Herald, Oct. 3, 2005.“Was New Orleans Asking for It,” Religion in the News 8, no. 2 (Fall 2005). “Blogging the Religion Beat,” Religion in the News 8, no. 3 (Winter 2006). “Hold the Prayers,” Religion in the News 9, no. 1 (Summer 2006).
Other reviews (selected): Mortimer J. Adler, The Angels and Us (New York: Macmillan, 1982), Boston Globe, May 23, 1982. John Putnam Demos, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England (New York and Oxford: Oxford Press, 1982), Boston Globe, October 31, 1982. Harvey Cox, Just As I Am (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1983), Boston Globe, March 27,1983. Michael Harrington, The Politics at God’s Funeral: The Spiritual Crisis of Western Civilization (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1983), Boston Globe, November 20, 1983. Ruth Brandon, The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (New York: Knopf, 1983), Boston Globe, January 1, 1984. Mary Daly, Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy (Boston: Beacon Press, 1984), Boston Globe, June 10, 1984. David G. Roskies, Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984), Boston Globe, January 27, 1985. Robert P. Ericksen, Theologians Under Hitler: Gerhard Kittel, Paul Althaus and Emanuel Hirsch (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985), New York Times Book Review, July 28, 1985. Paul Boyer, By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985), New York Times Book Review, November 10, 1985. Marc Galanter, Cults: Faith, Healing, and Coercion (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), New York Times Book Review, June 18, 1989. Garry Wills, Under God: Religion and American Politics (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990), Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 11, 1990. Thomas Simmons, The Unseen Shore: Memories of a Christian Science Childhood (Boston: Beacon Press, 1991), New York Times Book Review, August 4, 1991. Ron Chernow, The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family (New York: Random House, 1993), Boston Globe, October 10, 1993. Norman Cantor, The Sacred Chain: The History of the Jews (New York: HarperCollins, 1994), New York Times Book Review, February 5, 1995. Barry Rubin, Assimilation and Its Discontents (New York: Times Books, 1995) and Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab, Jews and the New American Scene (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995), The Forward, August 11, 1995. Dick J. Reavis, The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995) and James D. Tabor and Eugene V. Gallagher, Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), New York Times Book Review, September 3, 1995. Philip Jenkins, Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), New York Times Book Review, January 26, 1996. Martin Marty, Modern American Religion, Volume 3: Under God, Indivisible, 1941-1960 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), in The Christian Century, January 29, 1997. Arthur Hertzberg, Jews: The Essence and Character of a People (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1998), New York Times Book Review, May 17, 1998. David Klinghoffer, The Lord Will Gather Me In: My Journey to Jewish Orthodoxy (New York: The Free Press, 1999), New York Times Book Review, December 20, 1998. Gerald Gamm, Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999), New York Times Book Review, August 29, 1999. William Sloane Coffin, The Heart Is a Little to the Left: Essays on Public Morality Dartmouth/New England,1999), John Shelby Spong, Here I Stand: My Struggle for a Christianity of Integrity, Love & Equality (New York: Harper, 2000), Jim Wallis, Faith Works: Lessons from the Life of an Activist Preacher (New York: Random House, 2000), Wilson Quarterly, Spring, 2000. Stephen L. Carter, God’s Name in Vain: the Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics (New York: Basic Books, 2000), American Prospect, November 6, 2000. Daniel Levitas, The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right (New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2002), New York Times Book Review, November 17, 2002. A. James Reichley, Faith in Politics (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2002), Wilson Quarterly, Summer 2003, 117-18.
TALKS AND LECTURES (SELECTED)
“The AAR and the Public Understanding of Religion: Setting an Agenda for the Future,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 19, 1994. “Dealing with the News Media,” talk for the Regional Officers and Regions Committee, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November 20, 1995. “The Unsecular Biases of the News Media,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November 20, 1995. “The Christian ‘Religious Right: Jews and the New Anti-Secularism,” Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, Boston, December 18, 1995. “Religion News and the Secularization Hypothesis,” Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Convention, Nashville, November 8, 1996. “The News Media and the Secularization Hypothesis,” presentation for the Lilly Endowment Consultation on Religion in American Public Life, Indianapolis, February 21, 1996. “Secularization, the News Media, and Religion,” talk to the faculty of the University of Connecticut Law School, October 22, 1996. “Religion and the News Media,” 15th National Workshop on Christian-Jewish Relations, Stamford, Connecticut, October 28, 1996. “Religion, the News Media, and Secularization Theory,” talk to the faculty of the Hartford Seminary, December 11, 1996. “Changing Press Coverage of Religion and Politics: What’s The Story?” presentation at conference for journalists, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C., February 20, 1997. “A Moral and Political Rationale for a Center in a Liberal Arts College in New England,” talk to the New England Religion Discussion Society, March 1, 1997. “Do the Media Hate Israel,” talk at Monticello, (N.Y.) Public Library, August 6, 1997. “Decolonization and Secularization: An Unholy Alliance?,” talk at Trinity College for Decolonization Program, September 30, 1997. “Covering Mary: Considerations Reportorial, Ideological, and Epistemological,” Conference on Marian Apparitions, Center for Millennial Studies, Boston University, February 7, 1999. “Religion Reporting Makes a Comeback,” Panel, American Society of Newspaper Editors annual meeting, San Francisco, April 16, 1999. “Working with/as Journalists: The Scholar of Religion as Cultural Critic/Translator,” American Society for the Study of Religion annual meeting, Northfield, Minnesota, April 24, 1999. “A Civil Religious Affair,” 3rd International Conference on Religion, Media and Culture, Edinburgh, July 23, 1999. “Religion Coverage Today,” Panel, National Religious Leadership Roundtable, Colorado Springs, August 24, 1999. “Religion and the News Media,” Panel, Conference on Media and Theological Education, The Association of Theological Schools of the United States and Canada, Washington, D.C., October 7, 1999. “Religion and Health,” Temple Sinai, Atlanta, Georgia, October 10, 1999. “Religion in the 21st Century,” Panel, New England Society of Newspaper Editors, Woodstock, Vermont, November 13, 1999. “Religion and the 2000 Election,” The Emlin Theatre, Mamaroneck, New York, May 10, 2000. “Jews and Others: An Historical Sketch, 1940-2000,” Gralla 2000 Fellows Program for Religion Journalists, Brandeis University, July 17, 2000. “Religion and Politics—Election 2000 and Beyond,” Panel, The Council of Churches and Synagogues, First Congregational Church of Darien, October 17, 2000 Scientific Study of Religion, October 20, 2000. “Religion and the 2000 Election,” Sacred Heart University, October 25, 2000. “Comments on Huston Smith’s Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief,” Panel, American Academy of Religion, November 19, 2000. “Homo Religiosus: To What End?” Trinity College Conference, “Truth and Method: Challenging the Norms,”February 19, 2001. “Numa, John of Salisbury, and the Idea of Civil Religion in the West,” Trinity College Medieval Renaissance Discussion Group, March 9, 2001. “The Evangelical Voice Returns,” Conference on Politics, Religion, Culture, and Community, Berry College, Rome, Georgia, March 15, 2001. “Covering Religion,” Media Lunch, Diocese of St. Augustine, Jacksonville, Florida, May 15, 2001. “Sic et Non: A Response,” Conference on Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice? Fordham University, May 24, 2002. “Numa Pompilius and the Struggle for a Functional Political Theology in Western Christianity,” Teologie Politiche dei Monoteismi, Rappresentationi del Divino e Dinamiche del Potere, International Colloquium, Centro di Alti Studi in Scienze Religiose, Piacenza, Italy, November 2, 2002. “Why the Papers Love the Scrolls: A Response to Schiffman and Brooke,” Society for Biblical Literature, November 25, 2002. “The Intellectual Origins of the American Civil Religion,” American Historical Association, January 3, 2003 (delivered in absentia). “Not Much Help: Remarks on the Public Policy Implications of the Biotechnology Revolution,” Conference on Biotechnology, Ethics and Public Policy at the Hebrew College and Andover Newton Theological School, March 10, 2003. “Religion and Region in America,” Plenary: (Re)Mapping the Place of Religion in American Culture, New England American Studies Association, April 26, 2003. “Religion and the Coming Election,” The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Trinity College, October 16, 2003. “The New Religion Gap,” Clergy Leadership Conference, November 21, 2003. “The Muslim Conundrum,” Bush, the War, and Religious Rhetoric, American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, November 24, 2003. “On News Coverage of Religion,” Communications Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, D.C., January 13, 2004. “Gibson’s Passion: A Case Study in Media Manipulation?” Conference on “Exploring Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ,” Creighton University-University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, January 29, 2004. “Response to Jolyon Mitchell’s Paper, “Reframing Violent News,” 4th International Conference on Media, Religion & Culture, Louisville, September 1, 2004. “Content Analysis of Religion Coverage: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed?” 4th International Conference on Media, Religion & Culture, Louisville, September 3, 2004. “Gender, Geography, and the Religion Gap,” Conference on Religion, Politics, and Public Policy, Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, Los Angeles, September 20, 2004. “Religion and Politics in the South Today,” Symposium on the American South, Then and Now, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, November 20, 2004. “Almost a Culture War—Revisioned,” Consultation on After The Passion Is Gone: What the Film Tells Us about Religion in America, American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, November 23, 2004. “One Nation, Divisible,” Keynote Address, Midwest American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, April 9, 2005. “Old State, New State, Red State, Blue State,” Symposium on Religion, Politics, and Moral Values, Austin, Texas, April 14, 2005. “Faith-based Lobbies and the Courts: Some Historical Context,” Justice at Stake Summer Workshop, Washington, D.C., July 8, 2005. “The Future of Jews and Evangelicals in American Public Life,” Conference on Evangelical Jewish Relations, Jewish Theological Seminary, December 1, 2005. “The Christian Right in the 21st Century,” Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life, University of California, Santa Barbara, December 7, 2005. “The Politics of Religion and Region,” Capital Region Conference of Churches, Hartford, February 28, 2006. “The New Religious Politics,” Christian-Jewish Discussion Group,” Congregation Mishkan Israel, Hamden, Ct., May 24, 2006. “Secularism and the Media,” First International Conference on Secularism, Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, Trinity College, June 28, 2006.
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