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Inventing My Religion

May 29, 2012
By Fred Folmer Shortly after finishing Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith (Ashgate, 2010), a recent book by...
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Riot in the Cathedral

March 30, 2012
  A review of The Orthodox Church and Russian Politics, by Irina Papkova. Oxford University Press, 2011. By Sean Guillory In late February,...
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Act of Seeing

May 28, 2011
From Genevieve Yue's review at Reverse Shot of Terrence Malick's new movie, Tree of Life: Cinematically, [Stan Brakhage's Yggdrasill:  Whose...
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Half/Life: Jew-Ish Tales

January 26, 2006
26 January 2006 Sharlet: Publishers Weekly reviews Revealer contributor Laurel Snyder‘s new edited volume, Half/Life: Jew-Ish Tales From Interfaith Homes.”‘Half’ is an interesting, incorrigible, perplexing...
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Revising Night

January 26, 2006
26 January 2006 Elie Wiesel and the Hazards of Holocaust Theology By Peter Manseau  Editors’ note: This essay was...
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The Last Revival

October 31, 2005
31 October 2005 By Michael Rose Following in what seems like a trend of long profiles of charismatic or...
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High Lonesome Gospel

August 17, 2005
17 August 2005 Raw-skinned and born again. By Jeff Sharlet Excerpted from Oxford American’s annual Southern music issue Let’s look at the...
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Generation Squared

January 25, 2005
25 January 2005 God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America By Naomi...
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Emerge, Submerge, Repeat

January 23, 2005
23 January 2005 Sharlet: John Leland, author of Hip: The History, retreading the oft-told story of Jay Bakker, punk-rock-son-of-a-preacher-man? I was...
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The Capitalist Spirit

January 20, 2005
20 January 2005 The new New Age in the era of globalization. By Jeff Sharlet I first met Bhakti...
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The Secular Experiment

December 16, 2004
The Secular Experiment 16 December 2004 What’s freethought got to do with it? Susan Jacoby, Freethinkers: A History of American...
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Cultists Are People, Too

December 2, 2004
02 December 2004 Why journalists push new religious movements to the edge. Sean McCloud, Making the American Religious Fringe: Exotics,...
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Apologetic Islam

November 29, 2004
Apologetic Islam 29 November 2004 Natana J. Delong-Bas, Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad(New York: Oxford University...
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Ammo for his Enemy

September 30, 2004
Frank Rich accidentally writes a Republican’s dream review. It’s a shame the job of disassembling George W. Bush: Faith in...
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"The Question of God" Questioned

September 14, 2004
Notes from Dr. Armand Nicholi’s militant past. By Jeff Sharlet PBS’s latest God offering — “The Question of God,”...
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Fragmented Journalism

August 16, 2004
Pamela Constable’s Fragments of Grace is a better illustration than diagnosis of what’s wrong with foreign religion reporting. Reviewed by Jeff Sharlet...
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Godzilla, Born Again

May 29, 2004
The original Godzilla, a parable of atomic hubris, is playing in America for the first time. Is its hero...

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