Randall Balmer
Visiting
Professor of Religion
Email: rb281@columbia.edu
Randall
Balmer is the Ann Whitney Olin
Professor of American Religion,
Barnard College, Columbia University
and adjunct professor of church
history, Union Theological Seminary.
Last year he was Senior Research
Fellow, Institute for the Advanced
Study of Religion at Yale, Yale
University. He is editor-at-large, Christianity
Today, member of the American
Society of Church History, the Auburn
Project on Religion and Urban
America, and the advisory board of
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
(PBS). Co-author (with Lauren F.
Winner) of Protestantism in
America, Balmer's other books
include The Encyclopedia of
Evangelicalism; Growing Pains:
Learning to Love My Father's Faith,
named "Book of the Year" by
Christianity Today; and Mine
Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey
into the Evangelical Subculture in
America. He is a frequent
commentator for national electronic
media and a writer, producer and host
for PBS, including the Emmy-nominated
documentary Mine Eyes Have Seen
the Glory.
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