Glenn W. Shuck is an Assistant Professor in the Religion

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 Department at Williams College

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 in Williamstown

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, Massachusetts

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. He received his Ph.D.

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 from Rice University

Rice University

William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...

, and is best known as a scholar of North America

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n evangelicalism

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.

His book Marks of the Beast: The Left Behind Novels

Left Behind (series)

Left Behind is a series of 16 best-selling novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, dealing with Christian dispensationalist End Times: pretribulation, premillennial, Christian eschatological viewpoint of the end of the world. The primary conflict of the series is the members of the Tribulation...

 and the Struggle for Evangelical Identity, was published by NYU Press in 2005. He followed this with a collection of original essays co-edited with Jeffrey J. Kripal of Rice University

Rice University

William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...

 on the Esalen Institute

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 in California, published by Indiana University

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 Press in 2005. Shuck's scholarship and teaching also focuses on New Religious Movement

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s in the United States

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 as well as the Protestant Reformation

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 and contemporary trends in religion and politics and apocalypticism and millennial movements. His current work focuses on the roots and consequences of American cultural pessimism, with a book co-written with John M. Stroup in Fall 2007 from Baylor University

Baylor University

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 Press. His publishing and pedagogy is also heavily influenced by insights provided by American Continental philosophers, especially Mark C. Taylor

Mark C. Taylor

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 of Williams College

Williams College

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 and Edith Wyschogrod of Rice University

Rice University

William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...

. He received his B.A. from Texas Lutheran University

Texas Lutheran University

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 in German

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 Studies, and maintains an active interest in German theology and politics, and has published an article in German in the theological periodical "Zeitzeichen" titled "Trojanisches Pferd im Kulturkampf

Kulturkampf

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: Die apocalyptischen Left Behind

Left Behind

Left Behind is a series of 16 best-selling novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, dealing with Christian dispensationalist End Times: pretribulation, premillennial, Christian eschatological viewpoint of the end of the world. The primary conflict of the series is the members of the Tribulation...

-Romane sind Teil eines evangelikalen Kulturkampfes."