The Strange Tale of American Television and the Religious Left: A Conversation with Author Benjamin Rolsky
Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is thinking in public a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about |
| 0:09.0 | front-line theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Albert Moula, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. |
| 0:19.0 | Benjamin Rolsky is an adjunct professor in the History and Anthropology Department at Monmouth University and a lecturer in the |
| 0:26.0 | Religion Department at Rutgers University. |
| 0:28.7 | Professor Rolsky began his studies at Arizona State University, went on to earn his doctor of philosophy in American Religious Studies at |
| 0:34.0 | Arizona State University went on to earn his doctor of philosophy in American |
| 0:34.5 | Religious Studies at Drew University. |
| 0:37.0 | In addition to his teaching, Professor Rolsky's research |
| 0:40.0 | focuses on the intersection of religion, politics, and popular culture. |
| 0:44.0 | His first major book, The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left, |
| 0:47.3 | Politics, Television, and Popular Culture in the 1970s and Beyond, |
| 0:51.9 | was published by Columbia University Press Press and we're going to talk |
| 0:55.0 | about that book today. |
| 0:57.0 | Benjamin Rolsky, welcome to thinking in public. |
| 0:59.8 | Thank you very much for having me. |
| 1:01.4 | Been really looking forward to this. So when I read a book like |
| 1:04.9 | like your book, the rise and fall of the religious left, politics, television and popular culture in |
| 1:09.7 | the 1970s and beyond, I can see so many points of entry into this question but how did you |
| 1:15.0 | trip up on this as a scholar how did you determine that this project would be |
| 1:20.1 | your preoccupation for a considerable amount of time? |
| 1:24.0 | Well, it's an autobiographical story. |
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