Daniel Silliman


Feb 24, 2007

Media theory


"We know that it is something made"
"Every young person in America has become, in the literal sense, a public figure"
Sontag: "not seeing but a way of seeing"
"I need to have Rodney’s face on my chest"
Photos of the year
Talese: "there is another way of looking at this tree"
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Daniel Silliman teaches American Religion and Culture at the University of Heidelberg's HCA. His research is focused on the ways Christians have engaged with and conceptualized culture in 20th and 21st century America. He is currently working on his doctoral dissertation on Evangelical relationships to pluralism and the secular as represented in contemporary faith fiction.

He has an M.A. in American Studies from the University of Tübingen and a B.A. in Philosophy from Hillsdale College.

He also worked for several years as a newspaper reporter, reporting on crime in Atlanta's Southern Crescent.

He lives in Germany with his wife.

He posts here three or four times a week.

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  • 19 A Contract with God, by Will Eisner
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  • 17 Marx: A Very Short Introduction, by Peter Singer
  • 16 The Eastern Church in the Spiritual Marketplace: American Conversions to Orthodox Christianity, by Amy Slagle
  • 15 Divided by a Common Heritage, by Corwin Smith et al.
  • 14 A History of the Evangelical and Reformed Church, by David Dunn et al.
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  • 11 The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450-1800, by Lucien Febvre & Henri-Jean Maritan
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