Knight Chair in Media and Religion
Why should you read a website burdened by the unwieldy title of "Knight Chair in Media and Religion"?...
Here are the results for in the news.
Religion Dispatches
New on the gods beat: Religion Dispatches, created by two religious studies scholars, Gary Laderman of Emory and...
Help Wanted
In which The Revealer's summer absence is explained and its future presence pondered.
Emulate Thy Enemy
Bridget Purcell: Becky Fischer, the founder of the fundamentalist Christian children's summer program in the new documentary Jesus...
Not Quiet on the Western Front
The Revealer Goes Bicoastal, Again
By Peter Manseau
A few years ago, when Revealer editor Jeff...
Sequins and Solidarity Forever
Jeff Sharlet: I received a call the other day from a CBS news producer looking for help on a...
Chuck Colson: David or Goliath?
Nicole Greenfield: Former Nixon
Islam Is the West
20 February 2006 Why the “Clash of Civilizations” is the wrong way to approach the cartoon controversy. By S....
Imams for Hire
02 January 2006 “Insight and Influence. Anywhere. Anytime.” NYT reports that the Lincoln Group, a U.S. contractor recently exposed as subverting...
An Ordinary, Reasonable Person
An excerpt from Vows: The Story of A Priest, a Nun, and Their Son, a new book by Revealer...
Radically Other
“Who is this ‘God’ in whose name so many diverse and troubling things take place? Why is it assumed...
Killing the Buddha
By Jeff Sharlet Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible has just been published in paperback by Free Press /...
Journalism Faces Faith
Magazine Writing: Journalism Faces Faith By Jeff Sharlet Abbreviated In an era of culture war, holy war, and technological...
Hefley's Lost Crusade
There’s a ghost of a religion story in the news that House Republican leaders have booted ethics chair Rep. Joel Hefley...
Daily Links 26 January 2005
They Will Be Your Doctors When You’re Old Kansas’ State Board of Education is holding a public hearing this...
Emerge, Submerge, Repeat
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...
Killing Religion Journalism
Killing Religion Journalism 11 October 2004 By Jeff Sharlet Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible has just been published in...
Killing Religion Journalism
By Jeff Sharlet
Killing the Buddha:...
08 September 2004 Daily Links
“If Kerry Wins…“: Dick Cheney opts for equal opportunity voter intimidation. “‘Thank you, Lord, for loving journalism'”: Columbia Journalism Review’s Gal Beckerman writes...
11 August 2004 Daily Links
Every now and then you come across a prayer that is so crazy, so ecstatic, so much in love...
Spin and the Religion Reporter
No one wants to ask “What would Jesus Do?” on the campaign trail… By Bob Smietana The conventions were...
Don't Forget the Bodies
On losing count of the dead. By Jeff Sharlet Writing in The Washington Post, columnist Jim Hoagland notes that “the American public...
29 June 2004 Daily Links
“Pastors say they never instruct their congregations how to vote, but in many ways they don’t have to. Even...
How to Handicap the Lord
By Jeff Sharlet: Religion in politics: David Brooks “gets it” as usual, and once he’s got it — the...