"Touch" the Infinite

June 16, 2011
From "Oh, Infinite Stream of Data and Light" by Beatrice Marovich, at Killing the Buddha: But what if, perhaps,...

Heaven for Infiltrators

January 17, 2011
Ashley Makar writes at Tablet about Sudanese refugees in Israel. A clip: The Knesset’s information branch reports that...

City of Life and Death

May 31, 2010
There wasn’t a dearth of death in Benares; as one walked or drove on its streets, small groups of...

Why I Am Not A Mystic

April 19, 2010
Stephen Prothero writes at Killing the Buddha: I love the idea of mysticism—the notion that divinity comes to us...
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Killing Religion Journalism

October 11, 2004
Killing Religion Journalism 11 October 2004 By Jeff Sharlet Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible has just been published in...

The Buddha-Whale

May 5, 2004
The good people at Powell’s, the best-stocked independent bookstore in America, requested a tour report from my Killing the Buddha co-author Peter...

Passionate Letters

January 28, 2004
The Revealer likes to harp on a theme, a rather vague notion of democratic religion writing — the sort practiced...

Radio Revealer, Part II

January 13, 2004
It turned out a bit like Canterbury Tales — a motley assembly of true believers, kneeling drunkards, and ecstatic skeptics gathered...

Radio Revealer

January 12, 2004
Hear The Revealer‘s Jeff Sharlet talk about religion writing and his new book, Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible, with co-author Peter Manseau and radio...

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