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Mark Silk
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Mark Silk is a professor of religion in public life at Trinity College in Connecticut, 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 and the religion and American culture blog "Spiritual Politics." He previously taught at Harvard University and was a journalist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Silk's publications include The Future of Evangelicalism in America (2016, ed. with Candy Gunther Brown), One Nation Divisible: Religion and Region in America Today (2008, with Andrew Walsh), Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in America (1998), and Spiritual Politics: Religion and America Since World War II (1989). He is co-editor of Religion by Region, a series on religion and public life in the United States. Silk holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University in medieval history.
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