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Beyond the Best

December 28, 2008
13 dispatches from the forgotten frontiers, crooked paths, and cul-de-sacs of religion reporting in America. By Jeff Sharlet Last week, I...
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What We Cared About, 2008

December 11, 2008
Some of the most interesting texts of 2008, selected by the contributing editors of The Revealer. Annual "Best Book" lists...
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Biblical Capitalism

October 2, 2008
Only months ago, what scant attention the press paid to fundamentalism in American life was dedicated to declaring the...
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Songs for the Butcher's Daughter

September 10, 2008
A review of and excerpt from the best Jewish novel of the year, by Revealer contributing editor Peter Manseau Peter...
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My Loveless Universe

September 6, 2008
How "compassionate conservative" Marvin Olasky uncovered my secret yearnings...
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The Revealer Jumps the Shark

April 25, 2008
By Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins Friends, we have a terrible confession we must make: We were wrong. In our...
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Religion is Media

April 16, 2008
Is there something about mediation itself that resonates with modern ideas of religiosity? By Angela Zito Excerpted from Rethinking Religion 101:...
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The Confession Forum

April 16, 2008
How mainstream media reduces religion to moral matters and why that hurts the debate about the politics of faith....
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Bad Moon Rising

March 25, 2008
John Gorenfeld puts Obama's alleged "problem pastor" in perspective by shining a light on another religious figure with even...
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The Week in God (and Hardcovers)

February 17, 2008
A weekly review of reviews about religion and media. By Jeff Sharlet Reasons to Believe: John Marks, a novelist and...
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Survey Says: Evangelical Democrats!

February 13, 2008
Smart religion writers have been complaining for awhile that exit polls don't ask Democratic voters about their religious affiliations....
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Huck's Old Wine

January 16, 2008
How Huckabee repackages old-timey fundamentalism. By Jeff Sharlet D. Michael Lindsay, the Rice University sociologist who upended conventional wisdom about...
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2007 Favorite Books

November 22, 2007
By Jeff Sharlet The British New Statesman asked me to contribute to their round-up of best books of the year....
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We're All Evangelicals Now

October 15, 2007
Jeff Sharlet: Beliefnet's "Blogalogue" on "Evangelicals in Power" began yesterday. Revealer contributor Patton Dodd, now an editor at...
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Fundamentalism's Colonial Drag

June 26, 2007
Former Revealer managing editor Kathryn Joyce makes her Newsweek.com debut with an account of "The Other Jamestown Party,"...
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Creationism in Canada

June 9, 2007
Homegrown anxieties for Canada's secular media By Alexandra Boutros Canada is getting its first Creation Science Museum in the small town...
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Feeding Desires, Judging Sin

December 11, 2006
The Los Angeles Times offers simple solutions instead of making important connections between religion, sex and politics. ...
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Helluva Play

November 29, 2006
From Thornton, Colorado to Brooklyn, New York, Hell House performances defy neat boundaries between audience and performer, secular culture...
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Facing Facing the Giants

October 7, 2006
According to reviews, Facing the Giants is an amateur, formulaic movie that will strengthen Christian hearts and roll...
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Not Quiet on the Western Front

August 31, 2006
The Revealer Goes Bicoastal, Again By Peter Manseau A few years ago, when Revealer editor Jeff...

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