Jeff Sharlet
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| Born | 1972 |
| Residence | Brooklyn, New York |
| Nationality |  United States |
| Occupation | journalist and author |
| Employer | contributing editor for Harper's and Rolling Stone, published by Free Press/Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins |
| Known for | books, magazine articles |
| Partner | Julia Rabig |
| Website http://jeffsharlet.com/ |
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Jeff Sharlet (born 1972) is an American journalist and author best known for writing about religious subcultures in the United States. He is a contributing editor for Harper's and Rolling Stone. His work has also appeared in The Washington Post, Mother Jones, New York, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Columbia Journalism Review, Oxford American, New Statesman, Forward, Nerve, and The Baffler.
Sharlet is the co-creator of two online journals, Killing the Buddha, a literary magazine about religion, and The Revealer, a review of religion and media published by the New York University Center for Religion and Media. Sharlet's father is Jewish and his mother Pentecostal.[1] His uncle, a prominent Vietnam war peace activist, was also named Jeff Sharlet.
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[edit] Published books
- With Peter Manseau, Sharlet coauthored Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible, which was named by Publishers Weekly as one of the ten best religion titles of 2004. "It shouldn't work, but it does—a literary leap of faith" declared Elle. Vanity Fair described it as "shot through with epiphanies and controversy."[citation needed]
- In 2008 HarperCollins published The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. The book investigates the political power of The Family, a secretive association which claims to be Christian.
- In 2009 Beacon Press published Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith, co-edited by Sharlet and Peter Manseau.
[edit] Articles
- "Soldiers of Christ" Harper's, May 2005
- "Jesus Plus Nothing," feature on evangelical Christian movement in world politics, Harper's, March, 2003
- "Through a Glass Darkly", essay in Harper's on Christian historiography, 2006
- "The Young and the Sexless," feature on evangelical chastity movement in Rolling Stone, 2005
- God's Senator: Who would Jesus vote for? Meet Sam Brownback, Rolling Stone, January 25, 2006
- "This is Not a Religion Column: The Religious Vote of the Future, with a Pickle", ReligionDispatches, February, 2008
- "Jesus killed Mohammed: The crusade for a Christian military", Harpers, May 2009
- Sharlet's articles on Religion Dispatches site
[edit] Interviews and reviews
- "Christ Über Alles" An interview with Jeff Sharlet in Guernica Magazine in November 2008
- Interview about Killing the Buddha on NPR's Morning Edition, 2004
- Interview about The Family on NPR's Marketplace, 2008
- Interview about The Family on WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show, 2008
- Interview on Open Source with Christopher Lydon
- Killing the Buddha reviewed in NY Observer
- The Family reviewed in Bookforum
- Jeff's On-Air Interview with The Young Turks
- Video of Jeff discussing 'The Family' with Will Wilkinson on Bloggingheads.tv
- Imperial Jesus: 'Family' author Jeff Sharlet on the secret history of the other Christian right at Minnesota Independent
- Video (and audio) of debate/discussion about religious issues with Sharlet and Daniel Radosh on Bloggingheads.tv
[edit] References
- ^ Interview, Jeff Sharlet, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, May 28, 2004
