Thomas Hamill escapes from Iraq and gets drafted into the cult of American Heroes. By Jeff Sharlet First there...

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...

Revealer contributor Julia Rabig writes: The unfolding of abuse scandals that accelerated in the Catholic Church over the past few years has...

Not everything at Dinosaur Adventure Land, a creationism theme park in Pensacoloa, Florida, is about dinosaurs. For instance, there’s the...

After three centuries of decline, exorcism is booming in the Catholic Church. Tracy Wilkinsonof The Los Angeles Times profiles Father Gabriele Amorth, the...

Everyone has seen those Jesus Christ action figures by now — but have you seen them put into action...

By Jeff Sharlet “Inquisition,” by Francisco Goya. Crucifixion, by U.S. Army specialist Sabrina Harman.) The picture on the left...

The Amish know that photographs steal your soul.

A daily collage of religion news from the war in Iraq.  See also two new Revealer features: “Coffins,” by Michael Lesy;...

Also new today: “Who Killed Pat Tillman?” AP just reported that the U.S. has a new plan for subduing Fallujah — hire...

By Michael Lesy Everyone thinks they know what they see here. Close one eye and look, and it’s a...

Historian Julia Rabig writes in to the reveal the ghost of religion in a contemporary story of class and...

The number one topic in the blogosphere the past couple of days has been just what Atrios of Eschaton meant when...

A daily collage of religion news from the war in Iraq. Also new today on The Revealer: Atrios & the “Liberalish”...

by Michael Lesy Military Coffins (Photo: the Pentagon, via The Memory Hole) Everyone thinks they know what they see here....

“It is easy to think of Vatican II, which convened during Armstrong’s convent years, as a switch that was...

  Into the Kill Zone by David Klinger “They must practice spiritual fitness to live the life the Army...

“Junior used to say he liked to live in hotels because he was a son of Englishmen. When he...

  John Negroponte at the Prayer Service for the United Nations Community, 10-9-01 (Photo Orthodox Church in America) Here...

Not Kimya Zahedi, a Muslim Iranian-American, orTaylor Lasley, a Presbyterian African-American. AndClark Buden, great-grandson of Nelson Rockefeller, sure isn’t a M.O.T., regardless...

“The notion that Wicca is America’s fastest-growing religion has achieved meme status. Everyone says it, but who started it?” Chas...

Last week Raymond McInnis, a columnist for Daily News Online, responded to a Revealer post by asking: “Why, currently, do I –as a secular humanist...

A daily collage of of religion news from the war in Iraq. Also new on The Revealer today: The Rise of Religious...

A short report in last week’s Financial Times (subscriber only; click on #42 here to sign up for a free trial) describes one...