Stewart M. Hoover is a professor of journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is an expert on religion and popular culture, focusing on how many people use popular culture to make sense of life in a way religion once was used.

Barry G. Hankins is a professor of history and church-state studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He is an expert on Christian conservatives and their interaction with American culture. He wrote the book Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptist Conservatives and American Culture.

Andrew M. Manis is associate professor of American religious history at Macon State College in Georgia. He has written on Christian evangelicals and the culture wars, including the section “Protestants: From Denominational Controversialists to Culture Warriors” for the book Religion and Public Life in the Southern Crossroads Region: The Showdown States (AltaMira Press, 2004).

Kathleen S. Lowney is a professor of sociology at Valdosta State University in Georgia. She has written about television talk shows and morality.

Paul Levinson is a professor in Fordham University’s department of communication and media in New York.

Todd A. Gitlin is a professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University in New York. He wrote the book The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America Is Wracked by Culture Wars (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 1996).

Michael C. Keith is a professor of communication at Boston College and a radio historian.

Mark Silk is director for the Leonard Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Silk is also professor of religion in public life at Trinity. He is particularly knowledgeable about religious variances from one part of the country to another; his books include (as co-author) One Nation, Divisible: […]

Michael B. Keegan is president of People for the American Way, which fights against censorship.