Bradley Johnson is a graduate student in the Department of Religion at Rice University. He specializes in the interplay between religion and politics in southern Africa, and the history of millenarian movements. At the moment, his research focuses on religious responses to and interpretations of world-breaking catastrophes, particularly climate change and similar anthropogenic disasters. He earned his master's degree in religion from Wake Forest University, and his bachelor's from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.