John Modern is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. He is the author of The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs and Secularism in Antebellum America. Modern is an editor-at-large for The Immanent Frame and curator (with Kathryn Lofton) of Frequencies: A Collaborative Genealogy of Spirituality. [ http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2015/02/22/frequencies-3/]. His current project, funded by the Social Science Research Council’s New Directions is the Study of Prayer initiative, is entitled Prayer Machines: Cases Studies in a Secular Age.