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Aaron Griffith joins host Marty Duren to discuss the history of evangelicalism and “law and order” politics.
Aaron Griffith is associate professor of history at Sattler College in Boston, MA. He earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from Duke University Divinity School and was a postdoctoral research associate at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. He also has taught in Washington University’s Prison Education Project and Duke’s Kenan Institute for Ethics.
His book God’s Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America released this year (affiliate link). His broader academic interests include American religious history (particularly evangelicalism, African-American religions, and social reform), Christianity in the global south, and American political history. His writing has appeared in academic publications like Fides et Historia and Religions, and in popular venues like The Washington Post and Religion News Service.
He has received fellowships from organizations like the Louisville Institute and the Center for the Study of Philanthropy and Voluntarism at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy. Griffith is also interested in prison education and prison ministry, and enjoys teaching Bible studies and speaking on topics related to history and Christian faith at local churches.
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