About Carrie Lynn Evans

Carrie Lynn is currently a PhD student of English Literature with Université Laval in Quebec. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology and culture, as expressed in contemporary American science fiction. Even so, she is much consumed with topics pertaining to religion, secularism, and politics.

Carrie Lynn Evans is currently a PhD student of English Literature with Université Laval in Quebec.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Carrie Lynn:

Anna Della Subin, "Accidental Gods: On Race, Empire, and Men Unwittingly Turned Divine" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)

June 25, 2023

Accidental Gods

Anna Della Subin
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Ever since 1492, when Christopher Columbus made landfall in the New World and was hailed as a heavenly being, the accidental god has haunted the moder…

Patrick J. Corbeil, "Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement: Imagining a Secular World" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

May 26, 2023

Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement

Patrick J. Corbeil

Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement: Imagining a Secular World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) by Dr. Patrick Corbeil is the first ext…

Elaine H. Ecklund and David R. Johnson, "Varieties of Atheism in Science" (Oxford UP, 2021)

April 27, 2023

Varieties of Atheism in Science

Elaine Howard Ecklund and David R. Johnson

Not all atheists are New Atheists, but thanks in large part to the prominence and influence of New Atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Danie…

Ross Clare, "Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction: Amazing Antiquity" (Liverpool UP, 2022)

April 3, 2023

Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction

Ross Clare

Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction: Amazing Antiquity (Liverpool UP, 2022) by Dr. Ross Clare introduces and analyses the reception of c…

Stephen Bullivant, "Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America" (Oxford UP, 2022)

February 26, 2023

Nonverts

Stephen Bullivant

The United States is in the midst of a religious revolution. Or, perhaps it is better to say a non-religious revolution. Around a quarter of US adults…

David Newheiser, "The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

January 31, 2023

The Varieties of Atheism

David Newheiser

The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics (University of Chicago Press, 2022), edited by Professor David Newheiser reveals the div…

Roger A Sneed, "The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought" (Ohio State UP, 2021)

January 6, 2023

The Dreamer and the Dream

Roger A Sneed

In The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought (Ohio State UP, 2021), Professor Roger Sneed illuminates the interplay of Black…

Teemu Taira, "Atheism in Five Minutes" (Equinox Publishing, 2022)

December 3, 2022

Atheism in Five Minutes

Teemu Taira

Atheism in Five Minutes, by Professor Teemu Taira, is part of Equinox Publishing’s “Religion in 5 Minutes” series. It offers insights into a number of…

Carolyne Larrington, "All Men Must Die: Power and Passion in Game of Thrones" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

November 24, 2022

All Men Must Die

Carolyne Larrington

“All men must die” or “Valar Morghulis,” as the traditional Essos greeting is rendered in High Valyrian. And die they do – in prodigious numbers; in i…

Peter Coviello, "Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

October 12, 2022

Make Yourselves Gods

Peter Coviello

From the perspective of Protestant America, nineteenth-century Mormons were the victims of a peculiar zealotry, a population deranged––socially, sexua…

Charles Devellenes, "Positive Atheism: Bayle, Meslier, D'Holbach, Diderot" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)

September 23, 2022

Positive Atheism

Charles Devellenes

In Positive Atheism: Bayle, Meslier, d’Holbach, Diderot (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), Dr. Charles Devellennes looks at the religious, social, an…

Katherine E. Sugg, "Apocalypse and Heroism in Popular Culture" (McFarland, 2022)

June 30, 2022

Apocalypse and Heroism in Popular Culture

Katherine E. Sugg

Stories of world-ending catastrophe have featured prominently in film and television lately. Zombie apocalypses, climate disasters, alien invasions, g…

Ray Argyle, "Inventing Secularism: The Radical Life of George Jacob Holyoake" (McFarland, 2021)

May 31, 2022

Inventing Secularism

Ray Argyle

Inventing Secularism: The Radical Life of George Jacob Holyoake (McFarland, 2021), by Ray Argyle is the first modern biography of the founder of Secul…

Karl Kitching, "Childhood, Religion and School Injustice" (Cork UP, 2020)

April 5, 2022

Childhood, Religion and School Injustice

Karl Kitching

In Childhood, Religion, and School Injustice (Cork University Press, 2020), Dr. Karl Kitching examines how debates about religion and education intern…

William Sites, "Sun Ra's Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

February 24, 2022

Sun Ra's Chicago

William Sites

Poet and jazz band musician Sun Ra, born in 1914, is one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renown…

Leigh Eric Schmidt, "The Church of Saint Thomas Paine: A Religious History of American Secularism" (Princeton UP, 2021)

December 8, 2021

The Church of Saint Thomas Paine

Leigh Eric Schmidt

In his new book, The Church of Saint Thomas Paine: A Religious History of American Secularism (Princeton University Press, 2021), Dr. Leigh Eric Schmi…

Joseph P. Laycock, "Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds" (U California Press, 2015)

July 26, 2021

Dangerous Games

Joseph P. Laycock

The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that included…

James Reeves, "Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century: A Literary History of Atheism" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

June 28, 2021

Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century

James Reeves

Although there were no self-avowed British atheists before the 1780s, authors including Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Sarah Fielding, Phebe Gibbes, …

Mark Storey, "Time and Antiquity in American Empire: Roma Redux" (Oxford UP, 2021)

May 27, 2021

Time and Antiquity in American Empire

Mark Storey

This is Carrie Lynn, welcoming you back to New Books in Literary Studies, a podcast channel on the New Books Network. Today I’m looking forward to sha…

Joseph P. Laycock, "Speak of the Devil: How the Satanic Temple Is Changing the Way We Talk about Religion" (Oxford UP, 2020)

April 20, 2021

Speak of the Devil

Joseph P. Laycock

In 2013, when the state of Oklahoma erected a statue of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the state capitol, a group calling themselves The Satan…

Phil Zuckerman, "Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment" (NYU Press, 2020)

March 25, 2021

Society without God, Second Edition

Phil Zuckerman

Phil Zuckerman's book, Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment (2nd ed.) (New York University Press, 2020)…

Laura Eastlake, "Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity" (Oxford UP, 2019)

March 9, 2021

Masculinity and Ancient Rome in the Victorian Cultural Imagination

Laura Eastlake

Laura Eastlake’s Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity (Oxford University Press, 2019) examines Victorian receptions of ancient Rome from the French …

David Newheiser, "Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology and the Future of Faith" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

November 25, 2020

Hope in a Secular Age

David Newheiser

In his new book, Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and the Future of Faith (Cambridge University Press, 2020), David Newheiser…

Philip Jenkins, "Fertility and Faith: The Demographic Revolution and the Transformation of World Religions" (Baylor UP, 2020)

October 27, 2020

Fertility and Faith

Philip Jenkins

In his new book Fertility and Faith: The Demographic Revolution and the Transformation of World Religions (Baylor University Press, 2020), Philip Jenk…