Religion is Media
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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Free Speech? My Speech.
“Free speech,” declared conservative writer Phyllis Chessler in observance of “Islamofascism Awareness Week,” “belongs also to those of us...
The Rise of Religious Studies
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 Tale of Two Melanias
Elizabeth A. Castelli tells the story of two women with the same name separated by hundreds of years and...
“After the apocalypse, she missed her dog”
By Elizabeth A. Castelli Reading Lucy Corin’s One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses
Best Religion Writing of 2008
Jeff Sharlet: Links to my favorite religion stories of 2008.
Religion is Media (and Sometimes Media is Religion)
Three powerful new essays from Revealer contributing editors look at the history, theory, and news of religion and media.
Persecution Complexes
A historian of early Christianity looks at contemporary evangelicalism’s persecution complexes in light of the Christian martyrdom tradition and...
2007 Favorite Books
By Jeff Sharlet
The British New Statesman asked me to contribute to their round-up of best books of the year....
Teenage Holy War
Behind-the-scenes with the most militant Christian youth cruade in America. By
Jeff Sharlet.
Notes from the War Room
A historian of Christian martyrdom attends a Christian Right strategy session in the "War on Christians.
By Elizabeth A. Castelli
A...
Yet Another "Third Way"
Secularists, ecumenicists, agnostics: Watch out for Jim Wallis, warns Elizabeth A. Castelli. The evangelical leader and would-be political savior of...
Cookies and Coffee Served Afterward
Today begins the three day public conference of New York University’s Center for Religion and Media, the institution at which The...
Arresting Jesus
Late breaking Passion news from the Jewish Forward: “Emotions in the auditorium became so intense that during the crucifixion scene,...
Exclamation Points!
Can you feel it? Shockwave! Today’s the big day when teen prayer warriors around the world go to war....
Shockwave!
New media prayer warriors try to shake the world. By Elizabeth A. Castelli The banner reads: “Shockwave: Identify Yourself...
6 out of 10 Ain't Bad (Except When It Is)
We followed our own brand new Revealer press crit page to Tyndall Report, a weekly examination of the network news, and were shocked...
Shockwave Teen Prayer Warriors
A new original feature on The Revealer: “Shockwave,” by Elizabeth A. Castelli. Castelli, a visiting fellow at New York University’s Center for...