L. Benjamin Rolsky is a Research Fellow at Lehigh University. His work has appeared in a variety of academic and popular venues including Method and Theory in the Study of Religion and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion as well as The Christian Century, The Marginalia Review of Books, and the Religion and Culture Forum at the University of Chicago. His research and teaching interests include religion and politics, the study of popular culture, and critical theory. Rolsky is currently completing a manuscript entitled Norman Lear and the Spiritual Politics of Religious Liberalism, which is under contract with Columbia University Press. Once complete, he plans to begin research on a second book project that examines the history and production of the Christian Right since the World War II.
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