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Mark Silk is an American academic. He is Professor of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College, where he also serves as the Director the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life. In addition, Silk is a Contributing Editor of the Religion News Service, specializing in Spiritual Politics.

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Early life and education

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Silk was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 12, 1950, and graduated from Harvard College in 1972, magna cum laude. In 1982 he earned a Ph.D. in medieval history from Harvard. He was editor of the Boston Review from 1985 to 1986, and worked as a reporter, editorial writer, and columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Career

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Silk 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,[1] an eight-volume series on religion and public life in the United States,[2][3] and columnist for the Religion News Service.[1] With Andrew Walsh he wrote the series summary volume, One Nation Divisible: How Regional Religious Differences Shape American Politics, published in hardcover in 2008.

In the 1980s and 1990s Silk was a regular contributor to the New York Times, contributing essays and book reviews on feminist theology,[4] new religious movements,[5] Jewish identity, and other religion-related topics. [6] In 1984 he traced the use of "Judeo-Christian" in American culture.[7] In 1995 he argued that the American news media approach religion with certain Western religious preconceptions that do not always do justice to the varieties of religious belief and behavior.[8] In 2005, he traced the history of the idea of civil religion through changing views of the figure of Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome.[9] Since 2007 Silk has blogged about religion in public life at Spiritual Politics that began as "A blog on religion and the 2008 election campaign"[10] and is hosted at Religion News Service.[11]

Silk's areas of speciality include religion in America, religion and media, medieval history, and intellectual history of the West. As of 2021, Silk teaches Religion and American Politics and Religion and Climate Change at Trinity College.

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Mark Silk is an American academic known for his scholarship on the intersection of religion and public life in the United States, particularly through his leadership roles and commentary on religious trends in American politics and culture. He is Professor Emeritus of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He was the founding director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life from 1996 to 2023. He graduated from Harvard College in 1972 and earned his Ph.D. in medieval history from Harvard University in 1982, after which he taught at Harvard before moving into his focus on contemporary religious issues. He is a prolific writer and commentator, serving as a contributing editor and writing the regular column "Spiritual Politics" on religion and politics for the Religion News Service, where he analyzes topics such as religious pluralism, the political engagement of faith communities, and the evolving role of religion in American society. His work has contributed to public understanding of how religious dynamics influence public policy and cultural debates in the United States.

Early life

Little public information is available about Mark Silk's early life, including birth date or family background. He graduated from Harvard College in 1972 and earned his Ph.D. in medieval history from Harvard University in 1982. He then taught in the Department of History and Literature at Harvard for three years. After earning his Ph.D. in medieval history from Harvard University in 1982, Mark Silk taught in the Department of History and Literature at Harvard for three years (1982–1985). He then served as editor of the Boston Review (1985–1986) and as an editorial assistant at Harvard University Press. From 1987 to 1996, he worked at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution as a reporter, editorial writer, and columnist. In 1996, Silk joined Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, as founding director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life and associate professor. He was named Professor of Religion in Public Life in 2007. He also founded and edited Religion in the News (1998 onward) and has directed the Trinity College Program on Public Values since 2005. Since 2014, he has served as a Contributing Editor at Religion News Service, where he writes a regular column on religion and politics titled "Spiritual Politics." Silk is the author of books including Spiritual Politics: Religion and America Since World War II (1988) and Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in America (1995). He co-authored One Nation Divisible: How Regional Religious Differences Shape American Politics (2008) and co-edited the eight-volume Religion by Region series.

Personal life

There is limited publicly available information about Mark Silk's personal life. Reliable sources focus exclusively on his professional career as an academic, director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, and commentator on religion and public life in the United States.
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