John Lardas Modern

John Lardas Modern is the Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin & Marshall College. Modern serves as co-director of the Institute of the Mechanical Surround and co-editor of Class 200: New Studies in Religion at the University of Chicago Press. Modern is the author of Neuromatic; or, a Particular History of Religion and the Brain, which was named best book in 2022 by the International Society of Science and Religion as well as The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs (2001) and Secularism in Antebellum America. Modern is currently working on a book about intelligence, memory, and mourning and a long-term project that explores the end of the world through the lens of Akron, OH.

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