“How to Read Literature, Win Friends, Influence People, and Write About American Religion,” American Literary History 26:1 (Spring 2013): 191-203.
At the 2012 American Academy of Religion Conference a discussion ensued on Secularism in Antebellum America–the problems, prospects, lacunae, implications, findings, and whatnot. The discussion…
My response to Michael Warner’s review of Secularism in Antebellum America wrapped inside a statement on the analytical problems and prospects of enchantment. “So I…
“My God, David Brooks,” Religion Dispatches, July 28, 2013 in which you will find a gesture toward critique.
REVIEW: Janet Moore Lindman at The Journal of American History “Modern not only expands our understanding of antebellum Protestantism but also thoroughly interrogates the…
Ghosts. Railroads. Sing Sing. Sex machines. These are just a few of the phenomena that appear in John Lardas Modern’s pioneering account of religion and…
Check out “Obsession,” on Frequencies: I am a sick man. I am a jealous man. Endowed with a certain Mediterranean vigor I am spiteful, sickened…