Mark Reuel Silk

Background

Silk, Mark Reuel was born on May 12, 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Leonard and Bernice Silk.

Education

AB, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982.

Career

Lecturer Harvard University, 1982—1985. Editor Boston Review, Boston, 1985—1986. Staff writer, editorial writer, columnist Atlanta Journal Constitution, 1987—1996.

Director Leonard E. Greenberg Center Study Religion in Public Life Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, since 1996, associate professor religion in public life, 1996—2007, director public values program, since 2005, professor religion in public life, since 2007. Advisory board Institute Advanced Study of Religion Yale University, New Haven, 1999—2002. Advisory board Gralla Fellows Program for Religion Journalists Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, since 1999.

Advisory board national program First Freedom Center, Richmond, Virginia, since 2003.

Achievements

• Mark Reuel Silk has been listed as a notable religious studies educator, writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Unsecular Media: MAKING NEWS OF RELIGION IN AMERICA (Public Express Religion America)

    (Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Max Frankel chara...)

  • Spiritual Politics: Religion and America Since World War II (Touchstone Books)

    (Book by Silk, Mark)

  • Unsecular Media: MAKING NEWS OF RELIGION IN AMERICA (Public Express Religion America) by Silk, Mark (1998) Paperback

Membership

Member community relations council Hartford Jewish Federal, Connecticut. Member of American Academy Religion, Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Married Tema Kaiser, June 25, 1978. Children: Abraham, Ezra, Isaac.

Father:

Leonard Silk

Mother:

Bernice Silk

Spouse:

Tema Kaiser

child:

Ezra Silk

child:

Abraham Silk

child:

Isaac Silk