Mark Silk bio
Editor Mark Silk is professor of religion in public life at Trinity College (Hartford, CT), and a leading expert on how religion is covered in the media. He is the founding director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life and founding editor of Religion in the News, a magazine published by the Center. Silk is the author of Spiritual Politics: Religion and America Since World War II and Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in America. He is co-editor of Religion by Region, an eight-volume series on religion and public life in the United States, and co-author (with Andrew Walsh) of the forthcoming One Nation Divisible: Religion and Region in America Today. Silk is also the co-editor of the upcoming book series The Future of Religion in America.
Jan Shipps is professor emeritus of religious studies and history at
Indiana University-Purdue University, and one of the foremost scholars of
Mormonism. She is the author of Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious
Tradition and a senior editor of The Journals of William McLellin,
1831-1836, the earliest extended account of the Mormon experience. Shipps
was the first non-Mormon (and first woman) elected president of the Mormon
History Association. Her articles about the Latter-day Saints have been
published in a variety of academic and popular journals, and her book
Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons combines her
personal experiences among the Mormons with a lifetime of study and observation.
She is now at work on a book about Mormonism Since World War II.
John
C. Green is director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics and
Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Akron, and
also serves as a senior fellow in religion and American politics at the Pew
Forum on Religion & Public Life. He has done extensive research on American
religious communities and politics. In addition to publishing his most recent
book The Faith Factor: How Religion Influences American Elections,
published by Praeger in 2007 as the first volume in a Greenberg Center series on
Religion, Society and Politics. In addition, Green is the co-author of
The Values Campaign: The Christian Right in American Politics, The Bully
Pulpit: The Politics of Protestant Clergy, and Religion and the Culture
Wars. In addition he is widely known as an observer of national and Ohio
politics, and is frequently quoted in the press, including the New York Times,
The Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, NPR, CNN, ABC and CBS.
