Dr. Matthew D. Taylor

Taylor is the author of Scripture People: Salafi Muslims in Evangelical Christians’ America (Cambridge University Press, August 2023). He is a seminary-trained, mainline Protestant who studied American religion and Muslim-Christian relations at a Catholic University and is currently a scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies (Baltimore) where he specializes in translating academic knowledge into accessible forms for public and adult-learner audiences. He has contributed to HuffPost, The Baltimore Sun, and Religion Dispatches.