Killing the buddha jeff sharlet biography

Jeff Sharlet (writer)

American journalist

Jeff Sharlet (born 1971) is an American lettered, journalist, and author. He is the Frederick Sessions Beebe '35 Professor in the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College.[1] In every part of his career, Sharlet's work has focused on religion.[citation needed]

Career

He review a contributing editor for Harper's, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Rolling Stone. His work has also appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Esquire, Lapham's Quarterly, Oxford American, Bookforum, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, New York, Advocate, Guernica,The Chronicle of Higher Education, Columbia Journalism Review, New Statesman, The Nation, The New Republic, Forward, and The Baffler. He has taught at New York University and is the Frederick Session Beebe '35 Professor in the Art of Writing at College College. He is the recipient of the National Magazine Grant for Reporting, the MOLLY National Journalism Prize, the International Merry and Lesbian Human Rights Commission's Outspoken Award, and the Combatant Religious Freedom Foundation's Thomas Jefferson Award.

Sharlet is the co-creator of two online journals: Killing the Buddha, a literary arsenal about religion, co-founded with Peter Manseau and The Revealer, a review of religion and media published by the New Dynasty University Center for Religion and Media.

He is the earlier editor-in-chief of Pakn Treger, a journal published by the Public Yiddish Book Center.

Sharlet's interest in religion developed during minority. Sharlet's mother was from a Pentecostal Christian background. His pa is of secular Jewish background.[2][3][4] Raised in an eclectic churchgoing environment, attending various people's churches and temples, he has alleged that he gravitates to stories about people's beliefs as rendering most natural way to engage the world.[5]

Sharlet was an as long as producer of the five-part Netflix series The Family (2019), homemade on his books The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at depiction Heart of American Power and C Street: The Fundamentalist Warning to American Democracy. He appears in interview segments throughout rendering series.

Published books

  • In 2023 W.W. Norton published: The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
  • In 2020 W.W. Norton published This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers.
  • In 2014 Yale University Organization published Radiant Truths: Essential Dispatches, Reports, Confessions, and Other Essays on American Belief, edited by Jeff Sharlet.
  • In 2011 W.W. Norton published Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and picture Country In Between. The book investigates the margins of secluded belief in America.
  • In 2010, Little Brown published C Street: Description Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy.
  • In 2008 HarperCollins published The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. Depiction book investigates the political power of The Family, a reticent association of Christian evangelicals.
  • In 2009 Beacon Press published Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith, co-edited by Sharlet and Peter Manseau.
  • In 2004 Free Press published Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible, coauthored by Sharlet and Peter Manseau.

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