Why I Am Not A Mystic
Stephen Prothero writes at Killing the Buddha: I love the idea of mysticism—the notion that divinity comes to us by stealth, not in words and congregations but in silence and Continue Reading →
Tag: Killing the Buddha
If Brooke Hurley Had Breasts, She Would Not Be Dancing With Ben Tel
12 January 2006 Sharlet: Lest anyone think my taste for stupid dick jokes is limited to making fun offundamentalist swordsmen, a link to a rare exercise in Jewish adolescent fiction kindly Continue Reading →
Killing Religion Journalism
Killing Religion Journalism 11 October 2004 By Jeff Sharlet Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible has just been published in paperback by Free Press / Simon & Schuster. When my co-author Continue Reading →
Killing Religion Journalism
By Jeff Sharlet
Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible has just been published in paperback by Free Press / Simon & Schuster. When my co-author Peter Manseau and I set out to make Killing the Buddha, we wrote that “we had lost faith in the way faith gets talked about in America, the way it’s seen as either innocuous spirituality or dangerous fanaticism, perfume or mustard gas. After years of writing about religion, for newspapers and magazines and in letters to each other, we’d come to think that it is almost always both: Show us the truth and we’ll show you a lie, prove God is dead and we promise a resurrection.”
Great — but how do you tell that story?
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The Buddha-Whale
The good people at Powell’s, the best-stocked independent bookstore in America, requested a tour report from my Killing the Buddha co-author Peter Manseau and me for their newsletter. We were happy to oblige, especially Continue Reading →
Passionate Letters
The Revealer likes to harp on a theme, a rather vague notion of democratic religion writing — the sort practiced by journalists more intrigued by the many manifestations of faith and Continue Reading →
Radio Revealer, Part II
It turned out a bit like Canterbury Tales — a motley assembly of true believers, kneeling drunkards, and ecstatic skeptics gathered over the airwaves on a cold, dark evening, trading tales… such Continue Reading →
Radio Revealer, Part II
It turned out a bit like Canterbury Tales — a motley assembly of true believers, kneeling drunkards, and ecstatic skeptics gathered over the airwaves on a cold, dark evening, trading tales… such Continue Reading →
Radio Revealer
Hear The Revealer‘s Jeff Sharlet talk about religion writing and his new book, Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible, with co-author Peter Manseau and radio host Tom Ashbrookon “On Point,” 8-9 pm today. Listen on WBUR-FM Boston, Continue Reading →