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Image Conscious

By Jeff Sharlet | December 12, 2002

Dara Horn sets out to write the Great American Yiddish Novel — in English.

Smells Like Christian Spirit

The Young and the Angstless

By Peter Manseau | November 15, 2002

A new book about GenX Christians shows just how god-damned happy they really are.

Gillian Welch, by James McKelvey, 2001

The Revelator

By Bill Baue | June 24, 2002

Gillian Welch is no holy roller, but she’s not lying when she sings about God.

Rocky Mountain

Rocky Mountain Higher Power

By Peter Manseau | March 29, 2002

Running low on enlightenment? Stock up at Colorado’s spiritual supermarket.

Shack

Carolina Miracle Shack

By Jeff Sharlet | January 29, 2002

What does a miracle look like? Three opinions, as revealed in Henderson, North Carolina.

Church and Cemetery on Rt. 11

The Shenandoah Sutra

By Peter Manseau | January 17, 2002

Crossing the Mason-Dixon to tour the battlefields and bathrooms that have shaped the nation’s soul.

Got a few bucks for gas?

Using Our Bible as a Roadmap

By Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet | November 27, 2001

The Buddha Boys hit the highway to save a soul near you.

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Limbo

By V.A. MacAlister | October 22, 2001

In God’s waiting room with a nation of unbaptized babies.

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Save Me Somebody: Bruce Springsteen’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Covenant

By Cornel Bonca | July 29, 2001

The Boss will take you to the river if you help him get there.

Killing the Buddha

The Doctrine of Sugar

By Catherine Allgor | March 14, 2001

Chocolate, cherry pie, and all that can’t be left behind.

This Members of the Moors, a Negro religious group of Chicago, Illinois. By Russell Lee

Old-Timey Timebomb

By Jeff Sharlet | February 1, 2001

Michael Lesy’s Long Time Coming is a coffee table book that ticks.