Mark Hulsether is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, with broad interests in the interplay of religion, cultural, and society in recent United States history. Hulsether received his Ph.D training in the Program in American Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Religion, Culture, and Politics in the Twentieth Century United States, co-published by Columbia University Press and Edinburgh University Press in 2007, and his first book, Building a Protestant Left (University of Tennessee Press, 1999) studied Christianity and Crisis magazine, one of the major forums for liberal Protestant debate about World War II, the Vietnam War, and the civil wars in Central America during the 1970s and 1980s. Hulsether has written many articles and reviews on the course of the religious left in the US since the 1940s, various aspects of US popular religion, and issues of theory and method in the academic study of religion. His book in progress, Listening for More: Spirituality and Cultural Critique in American Popular Music was supported by a Spring 2018 Fulbright Research Chair at the University of Alberta. He blogs at https://marksbloggingexperiment.com/