James Wellman, Jr.
Dr. James K. Wellman, Jr. is Associate Professor of American Religion and Chair of the Comparative Religion Program at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. His book Evangelicals vs. Liberals: The Clash of Christian Cultures in the Pacific Northwest (Oxford University Press, 2008) examines the cultural context that increasingly divides American society, particularly within Protestant Christianity in the American Northwest. He is the author of the award-winning The Gold Church and the Ghetto: Christ and Culture in Mainline Protestantism (University of Illinois, 1999) and edited Belief and Bloodshed: Religion and Violence across Time and Tradition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).