- This article deals with the American journalist. For the Vietnam-era American soldier, see Jeff Sharlet (Vietnam antiwar activist).
Jeff Sharlet (born 1972) is an American journalist, bestselling author, and academic 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 Lapham's Quarterly, Oxford American, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, New York, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Columbia Journalism Review, New Statesman, The Nation, The New Republic Forward, Nerve, and The Baffler. He has taught at New York University and is presently Mellon Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College. He is the recipient of the Molly National Journalism Prize, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission's Outspoken Award, The Military Religious Freedom Foundation's Thomas Jefferson Award, and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Award for Excellence in Feature Writing.
Sharlet is the co-creator of two online journals, Killing the Buddha, a literary magazine about religion now edited by Nathan Schneider, and The Revealer, a review of religion and media published by the New York University Center for Religion and Media, now edited by Ann Neumann, and the former editor-in-chief of Pakn Treger, a Jewish literary journal published by the National Yiddish Book Center. Sharlet's father is Jewish and his mother was Christian.[1] His uncle, a prominent Vietnam war peace activist, was also named Jeff Sharlet.
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- In 2011 W.W. Norton published Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between. The book investigates the margins of personal belief in America. ISBN 0393079635
- 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] (Free Press, 2004) ISBN 0743232763
- In 2009 Beacon Press published Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith, co-edited by Sharlet and Peter Manseau. ISBN 0807077399
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Sharlet, Jeff |
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