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Bent Too Far: A Missionary, A Bookstore, A Change of Heart

By Mike Cordle | April 24, 2018

In my last life, back in the late 1990s when I was a fundamentalist missionary in Papua New Guinea, I came upon the online magazine Killing the Buddha. Although I…

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Celebrate with KtB, Thurs. 3/10 in Brooklyn!

By KtBniks | March 6, 2016

Dear Readers, You are warmly invited to join Killing the Buddha this Thursday evening for: Love You to Death! a raucous celebration of the publication of Ann Neumann‘s The Good Death: An…

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September Buddha-killing Update

By KtBniks | September 29, 2014

Whenever something we publish on KtB prompts a surprising response, I like to take a little time and then weigh in to the conversation editorially speaking. Last week’s feature, “White…

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This Mutant Genre

By Jeff Sharlet | April 29, 2014

The introduction to a new anthology Radiant Truths: Essential …. Essays on American Belief

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A Series of Small Leaps

By Jessica Wilbanks | February 11, 2014

Writing about witchcraft, children, and desperation in the Niger Delta.

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Virgin Apparitions, Holy Blood, and Me

By Becky Garrison | May 22, 2012

During a panel discussion for The Virgin, the Copts and Me, held as part of the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival, Namir Abdel Messeh, a French filmmaker of Egyptian origin, admitted…