Jacques Berlinerblau
Associate Professor and Program Director of the Program for Jewish Civilization, Georgetown University

How to Be Secular: A Field Guide for Religious Moderates, Atheists, and Agnostics
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jacques Berlinerblau is associate professor and director of the Program for Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Berlinerblau holds separate doctorates in ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literatures and theoretical sociology--a formation that permits him to ping pong between antiquity and modernity in his scholarly research. He is the author of 4 books, most recently The Secular Bible Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously and Thumpin’ It: The Use and Abuse of the Bible in Today’s Presidential Politics. Berlinerblau’s areas of expertise include secularism, secular Judaism, and the interplay of religion of politics in America—subjects which he has discussed in numerous academic journals, as well as media outlets such as CNN, CBS News, BBC, MacNeil/Lehrer, US News and World Report, and The Economist, among many others. Professor Berlinerblau currently hosts a show, “Faith Complex,” which explores the intersection of religion, politics, and art and airs weekly on WashingtonPost.com and Jewishweek.com.