John Modern

John Modern, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin & Marshall College, is the author of two books, Secularism in Antebellum America (University of Chicago Press 2011) and The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs (University of Illinois Press 2001). Modern is contributing editor for The Immanent Frame and co-curator of Frequencies: A Collaborative Genealogy of Spirituality. He tweets at @JohnModern.

(A)theologies, Culture, Media AnalysisJuly 28, 2013

My God, David Brooks

By John Modern

One senses that in Brooks’ reading of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age the principle of choice becomes its own form of transcendence.