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Title Believer, beware : first-person dispatches from the margins of faith / selected by Jeff Sharlet, Peter Manseau, and the editors of Killing the Buddha.

Imprint

Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2009.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	200.973 B412b 2009 c.2	---	Available
Axe Kansas Collection	200.973 B412b 2009	---	Lib Use Only

Description	xv, 263 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents	The apocalypse is always now / Jeff Sharlet -- Jew like me / Peter Manseau -- The temple door / Danielle Trussoni -- Zen mind, alkie mind / Martha G. -- What's past Jersey? / Seth Castleman -- I am a sea / Patton Dodd -- My Holy Ghost people / Ashley Makar -- God is electric, Jesus electrochemical / Michael Allen Potter -- Everybody has a mother, and they all die / Jeff Sharlet -- To pardon all our fucking iniquities / Laurel Snyder -- Bible porn / Erik Hanson -- The mucus / Mary Valle -- Sects and the city / Elizabeth Frankenberger -- Agnostic front / Ben Rutter -- Please don't feed the prophet / Daniel S. Brenner -- You're not in Oz anymore / Velvet, as told to Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet -- Cowboy for Christ / Quince Mountain -- Jesus gonna strip you naked / Jeff Sharlat -- The joy of dissent (or, Why I miss fundamentalism) / E.J. Park -- The cross and the color line / Timothy B. Tyson -- Another man's prayers / Stephen Prothero -- I was a pre-pubescent Messiah / Irina Reyn -- Dreading the buzzer / Hasdai Westbrook -- Raised by Jews / Naomi Seidman -- The only truth that mattered / Rebecca Donner -- Ooga Chaka Zen / Paul W. Morris -- Hunger is God's food / Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey -- Revelation road / Peter Manseau -- Searching for Sufis / Jill Hamburg Coplan -- Barbershop Dharma / Jeff Wilson -- The doctrine of sugar / Catherine Allgor -- Jesus is just alright / Mark Dery -- The Lost Temple of the Pennytitties / Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet -- The only Jew for miles / Gordon Haber -- Banana slug Psalm / Meera Subramanian -- Seeing things / Bia Lowe.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary	Collects ambivalent confessions, skeptical testimonies, and accounts of faith lost and found and lost again from Americans who have floundered in their search for an authentic spiritual life.
Subject	United States -- Religion.
	Faith.
Added Author	Sharlet, Jeff.
	Manseau, Peter.
ISBN	9780807077399 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	0807077399 (pbk. : alk. paper)