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Listing ID: 1498
Title: The Revealer
Description: Run out of New York University's Center for Religion and Media, this blog describes itself as a "daily review of religion and the press."
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listed on: July 29, 2008 08:27:57 AM
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Recent Posts:
| Family Best - 2008-12-29 14:30:07 |
| Sharlet: It's a New Year's treat to have my book,The Family, included on thetop 10 listof 2008 booksfeaturedon"The Writer's Voice"... |
| The Smart Set - 2008-12-29 11:48:56 |
| Tim Townsend of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch responds to the Religion Newswriters Association's dull list of top ten list of 2008 religion stories with a smarter list of local Missouri stories he expects to be covering. It's too heavy on... |
| Beyond the Best - 2008-12-28 12:28:42 |
13 dispatches from the forgotten frontiers, crooked paths, and cul-de-sacs of religion reporting in America. By Jeff Sharlet Last week, I rounded up myfavorite religion-related stories of 2008, and, over atReligion Dispatches, myfavorite religion-related books of 2008, along with"best of"lists from a number ofRevealercontributors. For the quiet week between Christmas and New Year's Day, here's a list of 2008's 13 best Revealer links to the margins of faith, as found in compost, Tulsa, and other people's conversations. In chronological order:
2."One Nation Under Elvis"--"Elvis is God"stories are a staple of"wacky religion reporting. Contrarian prose-psalmistRebecca Solnitdispenses with kitsch to seriously explore the theological paradoxes of rockabilly religion. InOrion. 3."Master of the Orgasm"--Gideon Lewis-Krausresurrects Wilhelm Reich forNextbook. 4."God is a Monster"--Gabriel McKeeon sin and redemption in J.J. Abram's monster movie, Cloverfield, inReligion Dispatches. McKee's SF Gospel is the best source for religion in sci-fi/horror/superhero movies we know. 5."Only Visiting This Planet"--S. Brent Plateremembers when Christian rock was weird, onThe Revealer. 6."Fetal Rock"-- in which I argue here onThe Revealerthat Christian rock is getting weird again, with illustrations from Flyleaf and an album calledSilent Screams. 7."Bad Moon Rising"-- If Don Delillo had taken a lot of acid and grown a funny bone before he wroteMao II, JohnGorenfeld's fabulous investigation of the Reverend Moon is the book he might have come up with. Excerpted onAlternet. 8."Blasphemous Lollipop"-- a Bloggingheads.tv"diavlog"withDaniel Radoshabout his book,Rapture Ready, and sacred suckers. 9."An 'Ooga Booga' Cleanse"-- NPR reporterJennifer Sharpedescribes a pleasant immersion in the cult of Father Yod. With musical slideshow. 10."Tulsa, City of (Somebody's) Dreams"--Akshay Ahujaon tour with Indian death metal band Cremated Souls. On Guernica, one of my favorite new online magazines. 11."Can I Borrow a Feelin'?"-- God and the worst album covers ever, in theFlorida Sun-Sentinel. 12."Private Conversation"--Kio Starkmistakes the most personal of intimacies for religion, and much more, on her fascinating new blog,Municipal Archive. 13."Ann Coulter Takes Peyote and Channels Patty Hearst, Our Evil Robot Future, and the Bug in Her Brain."ViaTownhall. |