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.