Let us recognize, from the outset, the delicious perversity of inviting comments upon comments about the comments about Charles Taylor’s…
John Lardas Modern
John Lardas Modern is professor in the department of religious studies at Franklin & Marshall College. Former editor-at-large for The Immanent Frame, he co-curated Frequencies and coedits Class 200: New Studies in Religion (both with Kathryn Lofton). Modern is the author of Secularism in Antebellum America (University of Chicago Press) and The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs (University of Illinois Press). "The Religion Machine; or, a particular history of the brain" is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. Modern is also working on a long-term project that explores the end of the world through the lens of Akron, OH. A former member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Studies and ACLS Frederick Burkhardt fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Modern teaches courses in religious history, aesthetics, and science studies.
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Hours of unrelieved, humorless argument
July 3, 2010
Wars of Religion 2.0
Summer reading: Part II
September 2, 2009
Off the cuff is a new feature at The Immanent Frame, in which we pose a question to a handful…
Always put one in the brain
October 9, 2008
Let me assure you. Ongoing neurological studies will not dramatically change religious belief or practice. As Robert Bellah notes in…
Deciphered by means of a perfected computer
February 19, 2008
Seen with a genealogical eye, Youth Without Youth speaks to the sheer danger of the sacred as the robust object…
The missing all
December 12, 2007
Although technology may not possess a logic of its own, one would be hard pressed to deny its formative role…