Jeff Sharlet

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name = Jeff Sharlet

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birth_date = 1972
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residence = Brooklyn, New York
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employer = contributing editor for "Harper's" and "Rolling Stone", published by Free Press/Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins
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website = http://jeffsharlet.blogspot.com/
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. [ [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week739/interview.html Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . INTERVIEW . Jeff Sharlet . May 28, 2004 | PBS ] ] His uncle is also Jeff Sharlet.

Published books

With Peter Manseau, Sharlet is author of "Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible" (Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2003), named by "Publishers Weekly" 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."

In 2008 Harper published "The Family: Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power." The book investigates the political power of The Family," a secretive association of Christian evangelicals.

References

* [http://killingthebuddha.com/ktbniks.htm Killing the Buddha]
* [http://www.therevealer.org/ The Revealer]
* [http://www.nyu.edu/fas/center/religionandmedia/ Center for Religion and Media]
* [http://religiondispatches.org/Gui/Content.aspx?Page=Home ReligionDispatches]

Articles by Jeff Sharlet

* [http://www.harpers.org/SoldiersOfChrist-20061103288348488.html "Soldiers of Christ"] "Harper's", May 2005
* [http://www.harpers.org/JesusPlusNothing.html?pg=1 "Jesus Plus Nothing,"] feature on evangelical Christian movement in world politics, "Harper's", March, 2003
* [http://www.harpers.org/ThroughAGlassDarkly-12838838.html "Through a Glass Darkly"] , essay in "Harper's" on Christian historiography, 2006
* [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7418688/the_young__the_sexless "The Young and the Sexless,"] feature on evangelical chastity movement in "Rolling Stone", 2005
* [http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/9178374/gods_senator "God's Senator: Who would Jesus vote for? Meet Sam Brownback"] , "Rolling Stone", January 25, 2006
* [http://religiondispatches.org/Gui/Content.aspx?Page=AR&Id=39 "This is Not a Religion Column": The Religious Vote of the Future, with a Pickle"] , ReligionDispatches, February, 2008

Interviews and reviews

* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1785326 Interview about "Killing the Buddha" on NPR's "Morning Edition", 2004 ]
* [http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/05/22/family_q/ Interview about "The Family" on NPR's "Marketplace", 2008]
* [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2008/06/03 Interview about "The Family"on WNYC's "The Leonard Lopate Show", 2008]
* [http://www.radioopensource.org/homosexuality-and-the-american-church/ Interview on "Open Source with Christopher Lydon"]
* [http://www.observer.com/node/48593 "Killing the Buddha" reviewed in NY Observer]
* [http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/015_02/2490 "The Family" reviewed in Bookforum]
* [http://www.theyoungturks.com/story/2008/5/20/193540/627 Jeff's On-Air Interview with The Young Turks]
* [http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/11164 Jeff discusses 'The Family' on bloggingheads.tv]
* [http://minnesotaindependent.com/view/imperial-jesus Imperial Jesus: 'Family' author Jeff Sharlet on the secret history of the other Christian right] at Minnesota Independent

Books

*"Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible" with Peter Manseau (Free Press, 2004) ISBN 0743232763
*"The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power" (Harper, 2008) ISBN 0060559799