Shira Telushkin -- Their Bloods Cry Out from the Ground. Nat Case -- In Praise of Gods That Don't Exist / Tara Isabella Burton -- What Is a Cult? / Sands Hall -- Light a Candle / Brook Wilensky-Lanford -- How to Talk to 'Nones' and Influence People / Burke Gerstenschlager -- The Lonely Boy / Patrick Blanchfield -- Soul Murder / Simon Critchley -- Why I Love Mormonism / Emma Green -- Will Anyone Remember Eleven Dead Jews? / Nathan Schneider -- No Revolution without Religion / Kaya Oakes -- Forgiveness in the Epoch of Me Too / Sam Washington -- A Welcoming Church No More / Joel Looper -- How Would Bonhoeffer Vote? / Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen -- Zen and the Art of a Higher Education / Peter Harrison -- Why Religion Is Not Going Away and Science Will Not Destroy It / Leigh Eric Schmidt -- Monuments to Unbelief / Erik Davis -- Amma's Cosmic Squeeze / Daniel José Camacho -- On the Threshing Floor / Meghan O'Gieblyn -- Fake Meat / Ann Neumann -- Opioids: A Crisis of Misplaced Morality / David Bentley Hart -- Christ's Rabble / Marcus Rediker -- The Forgotten Prophet / Jim Hinch -- Evangelicals Are Losing the Battle for the Bible. And They're Just Fine with That / Daisy Vargas -- La Llorona Visits the American Academy of Religion / Faisal Devji -- Against Muslim Unity / Shira Telushkin -- Their Bloods Cry Out from the Ground.
Summary:
"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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