Daniel Silliman: From Gengis Khan to the Fuller Brush man

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.

Books of '12

32 Fields White Unto Harvest, by James R. Goff, Jr.
31 Tongues of Men and Angels: The Religious Language of Men and Angels, by William J. Samarin
30 Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans, by Albert J. Raboteau
29 Expect a Miracle, by Oral Roberts
28 The Book of Mormon Girl, by Joanna Brooks
27 Introducing Derrida, by Jeff Collins and Bill Mayblin
26 Culture and Materialism, by Raymond Williams
25 A Feast of Snakes, by Harry Crews
24 The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South, by Randall J. Stephens
23 Frank Bartleman's Azusa Street, ed. Roberts Liardon
22 Chuck Smith Autobiography: A Memoir of Grace, by Chuck Smith
21 Beginning Theroy, by Peter Barry
20 Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America , by Matthew Avery Sutton
19 A Contract with God, by Will Eisner
18 For Marx, by Louis Althusser
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.
13 Letters to a Young Calvinist: An Invitation to the Reformed Tradition, by James K.A. Smith
12 Wittgenstein's Mistress, by David Markson
11 The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450-1800, by Lucien Febvre & Henri-Jean Maritan
10 Green River Killer, by Jeff Jensen & Jonathan Case
9 Dutch Calvinism in Modern America, by James D. Bratt
8 Living the Heidelberg: The Heidelberg Catechism and the Moral Life, by Allen Verhey
7 Comfort and Joy: A Study of the Heidelberg Catechism, by Andrew Kuyvenhouen
6 After Theory, by Terry Eagleton
5 The Last Battle, by C.S. Lewis
4 They Speak with Other Tongues, by John L. Sherrill
3 The Visitation, by Frank Peretti
2 Grandfather, by Tom Brown, Jr
1 The Essential Alan Watts, by Alan Watts

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Feb 4, 2012

From Gengis Khan to the Fuller Brush man

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