Jason S. Sexton (Ph.D., St Andrews) is a theologian, social theorist, and cultural historian. He is currently Lecturer in UCLA's Sociology Department and Visiting Research Scholar at UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Los Angeles, USA. Before that, he served as interim California State University Associate Dean of Academic Programs and as editor of Boom California, taught at Cal State Fullerton, and was also a postdoctoral fellow at Ridley Hall, Cambridge. He has held visiting fellowships at UC Berkeley's Center for the Study of Religion, UC Berkeley's Center for Law and Society, UC Riverside's Center for Ideas and Society, and USC's Center for Religion and Civic Culture. He is the author or editor of eight books, among which is Theology and California: Theological Refractions on California's Culture (Routledge).