Mark Silk

Mark Silk

Mark Silk is a professor of religion in public life at Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut) and the editor of Religion in the News, which is published by the college. In 1982 he earned a Ph.D. in medieval history from Harvard. He is the author of Spiritual Politics: Religion and America Since World War II and Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in America and co-editor of Religion by Region, an eight-volume series on religion and public life in the United States,[1][2]

In the 1980s and 1990s Silk was a regular contributor to the New York Times, contributing essays and book reviews on feminist theology,[3] new religious movements,[4] Jewish identity, and other religion-related topics. [5] In 1995 he criticized the American news media for their unbalanced coverage of new religious movements when compared to more established religious institutions.[6]

References

  1. ^ Religion in the News Current Staff
  2. ^ Front-page Religion, New York Times, 1988-4-3
  3. ^ Is God a feminist?, New York Times, 1982-4-11
  4. ^ Outsiders welcome, New York Times, 1989-6-18
  5. ^ Styles of Jewish Identity, New York Times, 1998-5-7
  6. ^ Silk, Mark (1995). Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in America. University of Illinois Press. pp. 91–106. ISBN 0252067428. 

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