Daniel Silliman


Nov 23, 2009

Tolls taken

The known and unknown worlds of Edward P. Jones
Cormac McCarthy is now "respectable" in Hollywood
Legal victory for glennbeckrapedandkilledagirlin1990.com
Radical Orthodoxy now giving the Tory Party ideas
The Warhol of the Internet, and then afterwards
David Simon on why he created The Wire
Churches unite on "most important" issues
Loius Armstrong and race and the Jews
Translating Tolstoy & the Russians
When the Stones really let "it" bleed
Nick Cave's soundtrack for Cormac McCarthy
Interview with Cormac McCarthy
Looking at the Bolano backlash
AP photographs of Afghanistan
Examining the uncanny like us
Christmas as Nazi propaganda
Zadie Smith's essay collection
The original Swiftboating
Studs Terkel and the FBI
A short history of "hello"
Mr. Grand Theft Auto
Raymond Carver's life
Art of the bar code
Nietzsche's piety
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@danielsilliman
Daniel Silliman teaches American religion and culture at Heidelberg Universities' Center for American Studies.

His research is focused on 20th & 21st century evangelical engagements with culture, cultural practices of belief, and religious book history. He is currently working on his doctoral dissertation on how belief and secularity are represented in contemporary Christian 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 southern Germany with his wife.

E-mail: dsilliman@hca.uni-heidelberg.de

Notable posts

Could charity replace welfare?

If individuals, corporations, foundations, bequests all increased giving by three or four percent, it would be possible to pay for the groceries of all of Georgia's poor, or give them a significant offset in the cost of a one bedroom apartment.

Not both, though.

The 1st Pentecostal scandal

In 1907 in San Antonio, in the heat of July and Pentecostal revival, Charles Fox Parham was arrested.

Francis Schaeffer and the death of Baby Doe

Francis Schaeffer's 1982 message to the Presbyterians at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was pretty simple: the philosophy of modern society is humanism, and humanism means death

Belief about 'belief' in the days of twitter & Beyoncé's baby's name

People are gullible, but gullible to the second degree. That is, gullible about how gullible other people are.

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23. Thrill of the Chaste, by Valerie Weaver-Zercher

22. God in Proof, by Nathan Schneider

21. The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin

20. Gödel's Proof, by Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman

19. The Most Hated Man in Kentucky: Charles Chilton Moore and the Blue Grass Blade, by John Sparks

18. The Great Agnostic, by Susan Jacoby

17. Jesus Hates Zombies, vol. 4, by Stephen Lindsay

16. Companion to Marx's Capital, by David Harvey

15. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel

14. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, by Karl Marx

13. Fanpire, by Tanya Erzen

12. Native Guard: Poems, by Natasha Trethewey

11. What's God Got To Do With It? Robert Ingersoll on Free Thought, Honest Talk and the Separation of Church and State, ed. by Tim Page

10. Fields of Zombies: An Amish Parable, by Sam Lang and Sarah Price

9. Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

8. The Messenger, by Thomas Peele

7. Adam, by Ted Dekker

6. Religion in American Politics, by Frank Lambert

5. The Religious History of America, by Edwin Gaustad and Leigh Schmidt

4. Demon: A Memoir, by Tosca Lee

3. Religious Experience Reconsidered, by Ann Taves

2. Lucifer's Flood, by Linda Rios Brook

1. Faithest, by Chris Stedman

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