Sharlet: Matthew Teague's "The Aftermath," an account of the days following the October 2nd shooting of five Amish school girls and the funeral of Charlie Roberts, the man who shot them is, is as good a piece of magazine writing about religion as I've come across in awhile. The set-up is pure formula: inexplicable tragedy plus media frenzy plus reporter who reports on the reporting. But Teague steps off that well-trod path with his first portrait of a voyeur, a "freelance sociologist" named Jack, who turns out to be looking for confirmation of chaos theory in the aftermath. From there, this piece gets smarter at every turn: a succinct but thoughtful engagement with the Amish concern for martyrdom; an understated interview with the undertaker; a recognition of Amish as both human and ritual-bound, and their seemingly amazing act of forgiveness -- they mourned at the funeral for the killer -- as something other than saintliness.