The God Beat : : What Journalism Says About Faith and why it Matters

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Call Number: 070.449 Go
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Learning to Write about Religion / Briallen Hopper -- In Praise of Gods That Don't Exist / Nat Case -- What Is a Cult? / Tara Isabella Burton -- Light a Candle / Sands Hall -- How to Talk to 'Nones' and Influence People / Brook Wilensky-Lanford -- The Lonely Boy / Burke Gerstenschlager -- Soul Murder / Patrick Blanchfield -- Why I Love Mormonism / Simon Critchley -- Will Anyone Remember Eleven Dead Jews? / Emma Green -- No Revolution without Religion / Nathan Schneider -- Forgiveness in the Epoch of Me Too / Kaya Oakes -- A Welcoming Church No More / Sam Washington -- How Would Bonhoeffer Vote? / Joel Looper -- Zen and the Art of a Higher Education / Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen -- Why Religion Is Not Going Away and Science Will Not Destroy It / Peter Harrison -- Monuments to Unbelief / Leigh Eric Schmidt -- Amma's Cosmic Squeeze / Erik Davis -- On the Threshing Floor / Daniel José Camacho -- Fake Meat / Meghan O'Gieblyn -- Opioids: A Crisis of Misplaced Morality / Ann Neumann -- Christ's Rabble / David Bentley Hart -- The Forgotten Prophet / Marcus Rediker -- Evangelicals Are Losing the Battle for the Bible. And They're Just Fine with That / Jim Hinch -- La Llorona Visits the American Academy of Religion / Daisy Vargas -- Against Muslim Unity / Faisal Devji -- Their Bloods Cry Out from the Ground / Shira Telushkin.
"In the wake of the horrific 9/11 terrorist attacks we, as an increasingly secular nation, were reminded that religion is, for good and bad, still significant in the modern world. Alongside this new awareness, religion reporters adopted the tools of so-called New Journalists, reporters of the 1960s and '70s like Truman Capote and Joan Didion who inserted themselves into the stories they covered while borrowing the narrative tool kit of fiction to avail themselves of a deeper truth. At the turn of the millennium, this personal, subjective, voice-driven New Religion Journalism was employed by young writers, willing to scrutinize questions of faith and doubt while taking God-talk seriously. Articles emerged from such journalists as Kelly Baker, Ann Neumann, Patrick Blanchfield, Jeff Kripal, and Meghan O'Gieblyn, characterized by their brash, innovative, daring, and stylistically sophisticated writing and an unprecedented willingness to detail their own interaction with faith (or their lack thereof). The God Beat brings together some of the finest and most representative samples of this emerging genre. By curating and presenting them as part of a meaningful trend, this compellingly edited collection helps us understand how we talk about God in public spaces--and why it matters--in a whole new way." --publisher's website.

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