Complex sentence: Spadafora's scholarly interests concern the history of Western thought, and he is currently studying the tension between secularism and the Christian religion and the Christian church, with a special focus on eighteenth-century Britain.
Split into simpler sentences: Spadafora's scholarly interests concern the history of Western thought. He is currently studying the tension between secularism and the Christian religion and the Christian church, with a special focus on eighteenth-century Britain.