As part of this year’s Book Expo America at the Jacob Javits Center in New York, a panel will feature of The Revealer friends and family.
The Future of Fundamentalism in an Obama Era
Thursday, May 27, 2010
2:00PM – 3:00PM
Location: Room 1E17
Why does American Fundamentalism continue to dominate the political landscape even though the power base has shifted in Washington DC to the Democratic party? How has the election of President Barack Obama informed the rise of a progressive movement and the subsequent Republican backlash? Are events such as the C Street Scandals, the passage of Stupak-Pitts Amendment, and teabagger rallies isolated events or part of a larger picture? What factors contribute to the appeal of movements united around a common ideology albeit “religious right” and “progressive?” A diverse group of panelists will assess the current faith factors shaping the socio-political landscape in advance of the 2010 midterm elections and note the trends and authors they are observing moving forward.
Moderator: Lynn Garrett, Principal, Lynn Garrett Associates
Panelists:
Becky Garrison, author, Jesus Died For This?: A Satirist’s Searches for the Risen Christ (Zondervan, August 2010)
Stephen Prothero, author, God is Not One: The Rival Religions that Run the World (HarperOne, May 2010)
Frank Schaeffer, author, Sex, God & Mom (Spring 2011)
Jeff Sharlet, author, New York Times bestseller The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power and C Street (Fall 2010), contributing editor for Harper’s and Rolling Stone
1 comment
John W. Fox says:
May 23, 2010
I have been trying to find an email address for Jess Sharlet. I am an anthropologist, formerly of Baylor University but now of the American University of Sharjah in the UAE, who has been studying a cell of the Family that has run Baylor University in Waco Texas since about 1998. The cell was founded by Clifton Robinson, who according to my conservations with him, is the same individual that Mr. Sharlet writes about during the Vietnam era in his volume the Family. I wish to ask Mr. Sharlet a few questions about Mr. Robinson and several of my former students who mentioned to me in earlier years that they were planning to reside at Ivanwald.
Would you please forward this email to Mr. Sharlet or send me his email address if possible.
Thanks,
John W. Fox
Senior Research and Writer
American University of Sharjah
Professor of Anthropology