I'm an Associate Professor of Religion at Florida State University. My research explores the role of religious traditions in debates over ethics, politics, and culture. I’ve written on topics including neoliberalism, messianism, critique, sexuality, and Aboriginal art, and I’m co-editor of the Journal for the Academic Study of Religion.

Since secular democracies are marked by a religious heritage, the study of religion clarifies the context of contemporary debates, and it offers resources anyone can draw on to address them. My first book, Hope in a Secular Age, argues that an uncertain hope is required to sustain commitment of any kind: personal, political, or religious.

I have edited four books and three special issues, including The Varieties of Atheism, Art-Making as Spiritual Practice, Negative Political Theology, and The Cambridge Companion to Political Theology (forthcoming).