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About Carrie Lynn Evans
Carrie Lynn is currently a PhD candidate 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 candidate of English Literature with Université Laval in Quebec.
NBN Episodes hosted by Carrie Lynn:
March 9, 2026
Towards a Godless Dominion
In recent surveys, one in four Canadians say they have no religion. A century ago, Canada was widely considered to be a Christian nation, and the vast…
February 5, 2026
What God Would Have Known
In this book, What God Would Have Known: How Human Intellectual and Moral Development Undermines Christian Doctrine (Oxford University Press, 2024), P…
December 27, 2025
Art-Making as Spiritual Practice
Art-Making as Spiritual Practice: Rituals of Embodied Understanding (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2025), edited by David Newheiser and Lexi Eikelboom, i…
August 3, 2025
The Secular Enlightenment
The Secular Enlightenment by Professor Margaret C. Jacob, has been called a major new history on how the Enlightenment transformed people's everyday l…
June 25, 2023
Accidental Gods
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…
May 26, 2023
Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement
Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement: Imagining a Secular World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) by Dr. Patrick Corbeil is the first ext…
April 27, 2023
Varieties of Atheism in Science
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…
April 3, 2023
Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction
Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction: Amazing Antiquity (Liverpool UP, 2022) by Dr. Ross Clare introduces and analyses the reception of c…
February 26, 2023
Nonverts
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…
January 31, 2023
The Varieties of Atheism
The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics (University of Chicago Press, 2022), edited by Professor David Newheiser reveals the div…
January 6, 2023
The Dreamer and the Dream
In The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought (Ohio State UP, 2021), Professor Roger Sneed illuminates the interplay of Black…
December 3, 2022
Atheism in Five Minutes
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…
November 24, 2022
All Men Must Die
“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…
October 12, 2022
Make Yourselves Gods
From the perspective of Protestant America, nineteenth-century Mormons were the victims of a peculiar zealotry, a population deranged––socially, sexua…
September 23, 2022
Positive Atheism
In Positive Atheism: Bayle, Meslier, d’Holbach, Diderot (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), Dr. Charles Devellennes looks at the religious, social, an…
June 30, 2022
Apocalypse and Heroism in Popular Culture
Stories of world-ending catastrophe have featured prominently in film and television lately. Zombie apocalypses, climate disasters, alien invasions, g…
May 31, 2022
Inventing Secularism
Inventing Secularism: The Radical Life of George Jacob Holyoake (McFarland, 2021), by Ray Argyle is the first modern biography of the founder of Secul…
April 5, 2022
Childhood, Religion and School Injustice
In Childhood, Religion, and School Injustice (Cork University Press, 2020), Dr. Karl Kitching examines how debates about religion and education intern…
February 24, 2022
Sun Ra's Chicago
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…
December 8, 2021
The Church of Saint Thomas Paine
In his new book, The Church of Saint Thomas Paine: A Religious History of American Secularism (Princeton University Press, 2021), Dr. Leigh Eric Schmi…
July 26, 2021
Dangerous Games
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…
June 28, 2021
Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century
Although there were no self-avowed British atheists before the 1780s, authors including Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Sarah Fielding, Phebe Gibbes, …
May 27, 2021
Time and Antiquity in American Empire
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…
April 20, 2021
Speak of the Devil
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…