Fundamentalist History, Secular Myth, and the Media's God Problem
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Document Type
Lecture
Series/Event
Lecture
Abstract
Sharlet is a contributing editor for Harper's and Rolling Stone and an associate research scholar at New York University's Center for Religion and Media, where he teaches journalism and edits TheRevealer.org, a review of religion and the press. His latest work is Jesus Plus Nothing: How American Fundamentalism's Power Elite Shaped the Faith of a Nation. He is also the co-author with Peter Manseau of Killing the Buddha : A Heretic's Bible, published in 2004 and named by Publishers Weekly as one of the top 10 religion titles of that year. Sharlet’s talk at Calvin will make the case for "American fundamentalism" as a term that encompasses the political and cultural work of a broad evangelical movement that's both conservative and utopian, gentle in spirit and angry in expression, rooted as much in its reading of American history as in scripture.
Publication Date
4-11-2007
Recommended Citation
Sharlet, Jeff, "Fundamentalist History, Secular Myth, and the Media's God Problem" (2007). Conferences and Lectures. 1591.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/hh_av_conferences/1591