Some work by Jeff Sharlet, editor of The Revealer

Categories: Killing the Buddha / American Jesus, Plural / Other Gods / Godless

KILLING THE BUDDHA
By Jeff Sharlet and Peter Manseau. Published in cloth and paper by Free Press, 2004.

“Killing the Buddha is perhaps the most original and insightful spiritual writing to come out of America since Jack Kerouac first hit the road.” — Publishers Weekly / “…without question, one of the most eccentric and fascinating books of the year.” — Buffalo News, Editor’s Choice / “A whip-smart… genuine stab at a saucy kind of spirituality that’s as bold as it is refreshing.” — New York Observer / “A mix of hymn and history, poem and prophecy, story and sermon.” — “Morning Edition,” NPR

Read the introduction: Mortal, Eat This Scroll!

AMERICAN JESUS, PLURAL

FEATURE
God’s Senator
Senator Sam Brownback Thinks He Knows Who Jesus Would Vote For.
Rolling Stone, January, 2006

TRIBUTE
The High Lonesome Gospel of Al Green
Oxford American, Summer, 2005

FEATURE
The New Virgin Army
Live Among the Young and the Sexless
Rolling Stone, June 30, 2005

FEATURE
Soldiers for Christ
Inside America’s Most Powerful Megachurch
Harper’s, May, 2005

BOOK REVIEW
Sex as a Weapon
Decoding the Literature of the Christian Men’s Movement
Nerve, April 25, 2005

FEATURE
Hermaphrodite Terrorist Angel
excerpted from Killing the Budddha: A Heretic’s Bible, one of Publishers Weekly‘s 10 best religion titles of 2004

FEATURE
Jesus Plus Nothing
Undercover Among America’s Secret Theocrats
Harper’s, March, 2003

FEATURE
God’s Own Knowledge
A theology of sex shops, movies, and nothingness may be the biggest thing to hit Christianity since Martin Luther.
First published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2000

SERMON
Jesus Gonna Strip You Naked
Killing the Buddha, Nov. 17, 2000

FEATURE
A Truancy Officer’s Tale
First published in Washington City Paper, Jan. 17, 2000

OTHER GODS

FEATURE
The Capitalist Spirit
In the post-9/11 healing boom, a new battery of mystics like Sondra Shaye are raking it in.
New York, Jan., 24, 2005

PROFILE
In Defense of His Immorality
America had enjoyed chroniclers of evil before I.B. Singer, but he introduced a different kind of devil to American letters, urban and omnipresent, with a better sense of humor.
Forward, June 25, 2004

GODLESS

FEATURE
How Clear Channel Programs America
Harper’s, November, 2003

BOOK REVIEW
Drunk on the American Dream
On the short career of an American militiaman
Forward, July 12, 2002

FEATURE
Books Unwritten, Stories Untold
Why the best work of three writers may never reach your bookshelves.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 27, 2001

BOOK REVIEW
How The East Was Won
American Westerns, Polish Poster Art, and the High Noon of Lech Walesa
In These Times, April 3, 2000

PROFILE
Why Are We Afraid of Peter Singer?
The world’s most reviled philosopher just wants more happiness for everyone.
The Chronicle of Higher Eduction, March 10, 2000

PROFILE
The Intimacy of Killing
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 22, 1999

From KillingTheBuddha.com

DEADLINE THEOLOGY
The Mirror and the Leash
Private Lynndie England pictures fashion and fascism in Abu Ghraib.
May 17, 2004

MEMOIR
The Many Times My Mother Died
August 6, 2001

DEADLINE THEOLOGY
Free Market Martyrdom
A death in Genoa raises the stakes in the contest between two theologies of globalization.
July 22, 2001

CRITICISM Yo Mama’s Orthodoxy
Giuliani and the Church of High Art
March 3, 2001