Jeff Sharlet

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Jeff Sharlet (* 1972 ) is an American journalist and author of various publications on religious subcultures in the United States .

Sharlet is the co-founder of two online journals, Killing the Buddha , a magazine about religion, and The Revealer , a daily review of religion and media published by the Center for Religion and Media at New York University . His uncle of the same name, Jeff Sharlet, was a prominent Vietnam peace activist.

Jeff Sharlet lives in Brooklyn , New York .

Published books

  • with Peter Manseau : Killing the Buddha. A Heretic's Bible. Free Press, New York NY 2004, ISBN 0-7432-3276-3 .
  • The Family. The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. HarperCollins, New York NY 2008, ISBN 978-0-06-055979-3 .
  • as editor with Peter Manseau: Believer, Beware. First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith. Beacon Press. Boston MA 2009, ISBN 978-0-8070-7739-9 .
  • C Street. The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy. Little, Brown and Company, New York NY et al. 2010, ISBN 978-0-316-09107-7 .

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