Mark L. Taylor

Mark Lewis Taylor is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Theology and Culture at Princeton Theological Seminary. His most recent book is entitled, _The Theological and the Political: On the Weight of the World_ (Fortress Press, 2011). Previously, his most recent book was _Religion, Politics and the Christian Right: Post-9/11 Politics and American Empire_ (2005), and currently is speaking on themes of that volume. In his book, _The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America_(2000), Taylor developed a Christology in response to U.S. empire in relation to issues of the contemporary prison-industrial complex, police brutality and the death penalty. He is also founder, and now co-coordinator, of “Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal,” a group of teachers from all levels of education university teachers organizing for a new trial for Abu-Jamal, a journalist on Pennsylvania’s death row since 1982. He has also been an activist in other movements to end U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan/Pakistan, to reform radically U.S. prisons, to abolish the death penalty, while pressing for immigration rights and reform, and for change in US policy toward Mexico and Latin America. He also serves on the board for the Masters degree in Community Organizing, offered by the U.S.-Mexico Solidarity Organization and accredited with the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee.