Chad E. Seales teaches in the Religious Studies department at the University of Texas at Austin. His research addresses the relationship between religion and culture in American life, as evident in the social expressions of Southern evangelicals, the popular religious practices of Latino migrants, and the moral prescriptions of corporate managers. He has published articles on corporate chaplaincy and the American workplace, religion and industrialization, the changing religious landscape of the American South, and the religious politics of U2's Bono.

A vivid and lively narrative...This excellent book will be of interest to scholars of southern migration, religion, and the formation of the secular...The Secular Spectacle is a welcome addition to the scholarship on secularism, and Seales offers deeper reflection and analysis of its particularities in the South.

• Acknowledgments ; Introduction: Secularism ; Chapter 1: Industry ; Chapter 2: Nationalism ; Chapter 3: Civility ; Chapter 4: Privatization ; Chapter 5: Migration ; Postscript: Silence ; Notes ; Index

Chad E. Seales teaches in the Religious Studies department at the University of Texas at Austin. His research addresses the relationship between religion and culture in American life, as evident in the social expressions of Southern evangelicals, the popular religious practices of Latino migrants, and the moral prescriptions of corporate managers. He has published articles on corporate chaplaincy and the American workplace, religion and industrialization, the changing religious landscape of the American South, and the religious politics of U2's Bono.

A vivid and lively narrative...This excellent book will be of interest to scholars of southern migration, religion, and the formation of the secular...The Secular Spectacle is a welcome addition to the scholarship on secularism, and Seales offers deeper reflection and analysis of its particularities in the South.

• Acknowledgments ; Introduction: Secularism ; Chapter 1: Industry ; Chapter 2: Nationalism ; Chapter 3: Civility ; Chapter 4: Privatization ; Chapter 5: Migration ; Postscript: Silence ; Notes ; Index

Chad E. Seales teaches in the Religious Studies department at the University of Texas at Austin. His research addresses the relationship between religion and culture in American life, as evident in the social expressions of Southern evangelicals, the popular religious practices of Latino migrants, and the moral prescriptions of corporate managers. He has published articles on corporate chaplaincy and the American workplace, religion and industrialization, the changing religious landscape of the American South, and the religious politics of U2's Bono.

A vivid and lively narrative...This excellent book will be of interest to scholars of southern migration, religion, and the formation of the secular...The Secular Spectacle is a welcome addition to the scholarship on secularism, and Seales offers deeper reflection and analysis of its particularities in the South.

• Acknowledgments ; Introduction: Secularism ; Chapter 1: Industry ; Chapter 2: Nationalism ; Chapter 3: Civility ; Chapter 4: Privatization ; Chapter 5: Migration ; Postscript: Silence ; Notes ; Index