The god beat : what journalism says about faith and why it matters /
The god beat : what journalism says about faith and why it matters /
Costica Bradatan and Ed Simon, editors.
- vi, 306 pages ; 24 cm.
Learning to Write about Religion / In Praise of Gods That Don't Exist / What Is a Cult? / Light a Candle / How to Talk to 'Nones' and Influence People / The Lonely Boy / Soul Murder / Why I Love Mormonism / Will Anyone Remember Eleven Dead Jews? / No Revolution without Religion / Forgiveness in the Epoch of Me Too / A Welcoming Church No More / How Would Bonhoeffer Vote? / Zen and the Art of a Higher Education / Why Religion Is Not Going Away and Science Will Not Destroy It / Monuments to Unbelief / Amma's Cosmic Squeeze / On the Threshing Floor / Fake Meat / Opioids: A Crisis of Misplaced Morality / Christ's Rabble / The Forgotten Prophet / Evangelicals Are Losing the Battle for the Bible. And They're Just Fine with That / La Llorona Visits the American Academy of Religion / Against Muslim Unity / Their Bloods Cry Out from the Ground. Briallen Hopper -- Nat Case -- Tara Isabella Burton -- Sands Hall -- Brook Wilensky-Lanford -- Burke Gerstenschlager -- Patrick Blanchfield -- Simon Critchley -- Emma Green -- Nathan Schneider -- Kaya Oakes -- Sam Washington -- Joel Looper -- Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen -- Peter Harrison -- Leigh Eric Schmidt -- Erik Davis -- Daniel José Camacho -- Meghan O'Gieblyn -- Ann Neumann -- David Bentley Hart -- Marcus Rediker -- Jim Hinch -- Daisy Vargas -- Faisal Devji -- 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.
9781506465777 1506465773
Religion and the press--United States.
Mass media--Religious aspects.--United States
Journalism, Religious--United States.
Instructional and educational works.
Learning to Write about Religion / In Praise of Gods That Don't Exist / What Is a Cult? / Light a Candle / How to Talk to 'Nones' and Influence People / The Lonely Boy / Soul Murder / Why I Love Mormonism / Will Anyone Remember Eleven Dead Jews? / No Revolution without Religion / Forgiveness in the Epoch of Me Too / A Welcoming Church No More / How Would Bonhoeffer Vote? / Zen and the Art of a Higher Education / Why Religion Is Not Going Away and Science Will Not Destroy It / Monuments to Unbelief / Amma's Cosmic Squeeze / On the Threshing Floor / Fake Meat / Opioids: A Crisis of Misplaced Morality / Christ's Rabble / The Forgotten Prophet / Evangelicals Are Losing the Battle for the Bible. And They're Just Fine with That / La Llorona Visits the American Academy of Religion / Against Muslim Unity / Their Bloods Cry Out from the Ground. Briallen Hopper -- Nat Case -- Tara Isabella Burton -- Sands Hall -- Brook Wilensky-Lanford -- Burke Gerstenschlager -- Patrick Blanchfield -- Simon Critchley -- Emma Green -- Nathan Schneider -- Kaya Oakes -- Sam Washington -- Joel Looper -- Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen -- Peter Harrison -- Leigh Eric Schmidt -- Erik Davis -- Daniel José Camacho -- Meghan O'Gieblyn -- Ann Neumann -- David Bentley Hart -- Marcus Rediker -- Jim Hinch -- Daisy Vargas -- Faisal Devji -- 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.
9781506465777 1506465773
Religion and the press--United States.
Mass media--Religious aspects.--United States
Journalism, Religious--United States.
Instructional and educational works.