Michael Lackey is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, USA. He is the author of "The Modernist God State: A Literary Study of the Nazis' Christian Reich" (2012), and "African American Atheists and Political Liberation: A Study of the Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Faith", which won the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title in 2008. He is also the editor of "The Haverford Discussions: A Black Integrationist Manifesto for Racial Justice "(2013).