A C A D E M I C
P U B L I C A T I O N S (Under Review )
“The Secret of the Secular, or The Emergence of the Culture Concept in the Nineteenth Century”
A C A D E M I C P U B L I C A T I O N S
The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. (book)
“Deus in Machina Movet: Religion in the Age of Technological Reproducibility.” Method &
Theory in the Study of Religion. (forthcoming article, spring 2006).
Walter Benjamin’s 115th Dream, or, Toward a Secret History of Moby-Dick," Epoché. (forthcoming article)
R E V I E WE S S A Y S&S H O R TA R T I C L E S
Robert S. Cox’s Body and Soul: A Sympathetic History of Spiritualism (2003). Journal of the American Academy of Religion. (March 2005).
Arthur Versluis’s The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance (2001). Church History (March 2005).
"¡En Columbia Nunca Se Sabe!" American Book Review. (July-August 2004) Review Essay of Michael Taussig’s Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza in Columbia (2003).
"Building a Better Beat Generation." American Book Review (Nov-Dec. 2004). Review Essay of Jennie Skerl, ed., Reconstructing Beat History (2004).
"The Beats and Religion." Beat Culture: Icons, Lifestyles, and Impact (ABC-CLIO, 2005).
"Beat Writers." Encyclopedia of American Studies (Grolier Press,
2001).
"Drugs". Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Religion (Macmillan,
2001).
"The Ginsberg Century: Everything Zen". American Book Review
(July- August 2000). Review Essay—The CollectedProse of Allen Ginsberg (2000) and Poems for the Nation, ed. Allen Ginsberg (2000)
P U B L I C
W R I T I N G S
O N
R E L I G I O N &
C U L T U R E
"The Night Before Christmas It’s Always the Same," SPEAK
Magazine, Spring 2001, pp. 16-23.
essay (link downloads a 2mb .pdf )
"Smells Like Don DeLillo," SPEAK Magazine, Fall 2000,
pp. 12-17.
essay (link downloads a 1mb .pdf )
"J. Gordon Melton," SPEAK Magazine, (Summer 2000), pp. 18-23.
interview ( link downloads a 4mb .pdf )
"Smells Like Moby-Dick" SPEAK Magazine, (Spring 2000),
pp. 82-89.
essay
"Apocalypse Already: A Museum for the New Age,"
SPEAK Magazine, (Winter 2000), pp. 58-69.
feature article
"The Poet is Always on Time: Notes on Charles Olson," SPEAK
Magazine, (Winter 2000), pp. 14-19.
essay
"Advertising Ethics: Why Ask Why Ask Why?" SPEAK Magazine,
(Fall 1999), pp. 72-81.
feature article
"Kill Your TV! The Writings of Sven Birkerts," SPEAK Magazine,
(Summer 1999), pp. 108-111.
review essay
"Pavement," SPEAK Magazine, (Summer 1999), pp. 114-115.
review essay
David Lemming’s and Jack Page’s Myths, Legends,
and Folktales of America: An Anthology. SPEAK Magazine, (March-April 1999), p. 90.
book review
"Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full," SPEAK Magazine, January-
February 1999, p. 96.
book review
