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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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Good Enough

July 17, 2006
Mitt Romney's evangelical appeal By Nicole Greenfield Last year Amy Sullivan predicted in the Washington...
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Sam Brownback Is A Fruit

February 2, 2006
02 February 2006 On biblical literacy, bigotry, the price of grain, real estate in Tbilisi, free market cheetahs, and...
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Theocracy, Eh?

January 23, 2006
23 January 2006 Pilgrim Harper brings the culture wars north. By Kathryn Joyce From Le Cornichon A smart and serious...
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Poppa's Got A Brand New Sword

January 11, 2006
11 January 2006 Fundamentalists get Freudian, for real. “With the right hand of my righteousness.” Do you experience erectile...
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Imams for Hire

January 2, 2006
02 January 2006   “Insight and Influence. Anywhere. Anytime.” NYT reports that the Lincoln Group, a U.S. contractor recently exposed as subverting...

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