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John Lardas Modern
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Modern earned his bachelor's in religion from Princeton University in 1993, his master's in comparative religion from Miami University of Ohio (1996) and his Ph.D. in religious studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2003.
Modern teaches classes in American religious history, literature, technology, and aesthetics. Modern has written across many venues and 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, 2001). Modern is currently working on a long-term project, The Religion Machine as well as an essay entitled, “My E-meter and Me.”
A contributing editor for The Immanent Frame, Modern is co-curator (with Kathryn Lofton) of Frequencies: A Collaborative Genealogy of Spirituality.
Read an interview with John Lardas Modern here.
