Jacques Berlinerblau


Jacques Berlinerblau is a professor of Jewish Civilization at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has doctorates in Ancient Near Eastern languages and literature and theoretical sociology. He has published ten books on a wide variety of scholarly subjects with special attention to secularism, secular aesthetics, Jewish-American literature, African-American and Jewish-American relations and biblical literature. Berlinerblau has also written about professors and their discontents in Campus Confidential: How College Works, Or Doesn't, For Professors, Students, and Parents and in numerous articles about the Humanities for The Chronicle of Higher Education.
From 2007 to 2009 he wrote the blog The God Vote, an exploration of the role of faith in the 2008 [United States presidential election|2008 U.S. presidential race], for Newsweek 's On Faith website.
Berlinerblau hosted and produced the show Faith Complex which was described as "a dialogue about the intersection of religion, politics and art." In 2010 he launched a second show with The Washington Post's Sally Quinn entitled "The God Vote" which focussed on news cycle issues involving faith and politics. In addition to this work in visual media, Berlinerblau blogged for The Chronicle of Higher Education's "Brainstorm" page between 2010 and 2012. He wrote about secularism, literature, and various subjects in higher education.

Books

  • Heresy in the University: The Black Athena Controversy and the Responsibilities of American Intellectuals
  • The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously
  • The Vow and the 'Popular Religious Groups' of Ancient Israel: A Philological & Sociological Inquiry
  • Thumpin’ It: The Use and Abuse of the Bible in Today’s Presidential Politics
  • How to be Secular: A Field Guide for Religious Moderates, Atheists and Agnostics
  • Campus Confidential: How College Works, or Doesn't, for Professors, Parents, and Students
  • ''Secularism: The Basics''