Jeff Sharlet

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Jeff Sharlet
Born	1972
Residence	Brooklyn, New York
Nationality	United States
Occupation	journalist and author
Employers	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.blogspot.com/

Jeff Sharlet (b. 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.

Contents 1 Published books 2 References 3 Articles by Jeff Sharlet 4 Interviews and reviews 5 Books

[edit] 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.

[edit] References

• Killing the Buddha
• The Revealer
• Center for Religion and Media
• ReligionDispatches
• Online Video Interview by Will Wilkinson on Bloggingheads.tv

[edit] Articles by Jeff Sharlet

• "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

[edit] Interviews and reviews

• Interview about Killing the Buddha on NPR's Morning Edition, 2004
• Interview about The Family on NPR's Marketplace, 2008
• Interview about The Familyon 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.

[edit] 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