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Title:
Believer, beware : first-person dispatches from the margins of faith
Author:
Sharlet, Jeff.
Publication Information:
Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, [2009]

©2009
Physical Description:
xv, 263 pages ; 22 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction: The apocalypse is always now / Jeff Sharlet -- Jew like me / Peter Manseau -- The temple door / Danielle Trussoni -- Zen mind, alkie mind / Martha G. -- What's past Jersey? / Seth Castleman -- I am a sea / Patton Dodd -- My Holy Ghost people / Ashley Makar -- God is electric, Jesus electrochemical / Michael Allen Potter -- Everybody has a mother, and they all die / Jeff Sharlet -- To pardon all our fucking iniquities / Laurel Snyder -- Bible porn / Erik Hanson -- The mucus / Mary Valle -- Sects and the city / Elizabeth Frankenberger -- Agnostic front / Ben Rutter -- Please don't feed the prophet / Daniel S. Brenner -- You're not in Oz anymore / Velvet, as told to Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet -- Cowboy for Christ / Quince Mountain -- Jesus gonna strip you naked / Jeff Sharlat -- The joy of dissent (or, Why I miss fundamentalism) / E.J. Park -- The cross and the color line / Timothy B. Tyson -- Another man's prayers / Stephen Prothero -- I was a pre-pubescent Messiah / Irina Reyn -- Dreading the buzzer / Hasdai Westbrook -- Raised by Jews / Naomi Seidman -- The only truth that mattered / Rebecca Donner -- Ooga Chaka Zen / Paul W. Morris -- Hunger is God's food / Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey -- Revelation road / Peter Manseau -- Searching for Sufis / Jill Hamburg Coplan -- Barbershop Dharma / Jeff Wilson -- The doctrine of sugar / Catherine Allgor -- Jesus is just alright / Mark Dery -- The Lost Temple of the Pennytitties / Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet -- The only Jew for miles / Gordon Haber -- Banana slug Psalm / Meera Subramanian -- Seeing things / Bia Lowe.
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ISBN:
9780807077399
Format :
Book