Mark Taylor
Mark C. Taylor is a postmodern religious and cultural critic. He is Professor of Religion at Columbia University and the Cluett Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Williams College. Over the years, Mark has played a major role in introducing new technologies to the classroom, and is the Founding Editor of the Religion and Postmodernism series published by the University of Chicago Press. He has published over 20 books on theology, metaphysics, art and architecture, media, technology, economics, and postmodernity, including Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left and Abiding Grace: Time, Modernity, Death. In 1998, he co-founded a company named Global Education Network, whose mission was to introduce high-quality online education in the arts, sciences and humanities to anyone, anywhere in the world. Beyond his scholarly work, he contributes to the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and other periodicals, and appears regularly on NPR.
Mark Taylor Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Professor, Chair of the Department of Religion
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Cluett Professor of Humanities Emeritus
Academic History
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Doktorgrad, Philosophy
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Ph.D., Religion
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Bachelor of Arts
PUBLICATIONS
Journeys to Selfhood: Hegel and Kierkegaard (1980)
Erring: A Postmodern A/Theology (1984)
Disfiguring: Art, Architecture, Religion (1994)
Hiding (1997)
About Religion: Economies of Faith in Virtual Culture (1999)
The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture (2001)
Confidence Games: Money and Markets in a World Without Redemption (2006)
Mystic Bones (2007)
After God (2007)
Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living (2008)
Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Colleges and Universities (2010)
Refiguring the Spiritual (2012)
Rewiring the Realm (2013)
Recovering Place (2014)
Speed Limits (2014)
Last Works: Lessons in Leaving (2017)
Abiding Grace: Time, Modernity, Death (2018)
Grave Matters, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (2002)
Sensing Place, Francine and Sterling Clark Art Institute (2016)
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS