Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith

Peter Manseau (Editor) Jeff Sharlet (Editor)

& 1 more

Description

A Killing the Buddha Anthology

The second collection to spring from KillingTheBuddha.com, Believer, Beware presents true tales of sex ed in Catholic school, witches in Kansas, sects and the city, Buddhists in the barbershop, Sufis under your nose, an adolescent Jewish messiah in Queens, and more.

In a world riven by absolute convictions, these ambivalent confessions, skeptical testimonies, and personal revelations speak to the subtler and stranger dilemmas of faith and doubt-of religion lost and found and lost again.

Product Details

Price

$16.00 $14.88

Publisher

Beacon Press

Publish Date

July 01, 2009

Pages

280

Dimensions

5.4 X 8.4 X 0.8 inches | 0.8 pounds

Language

English

Type

Paperback

EAN/UPC

9780807077399

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About the Author

Peter Manseau is the author of Vows and coauthor of Killing the Buddha. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. A founding editor of the award-winning webzine KillingTheBuddha.com, he is now the editor of Search, The Magazine of Science, Religion, and Culture. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Washington, D.C., where he studies religion and teaches writing at Georgetown University.