Peter Manseau, Jeff Sharlet

Killing the Buddha (eBook, ePUB)

A Heretic's Bible

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The ninth-century sage Lin Chi gave this advice to one of his monks, admonishing him that this Buddha would only be a reflection of his unexamined beliefs and desires. Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet took Lin Chi's advice to heart and set out on a car trip around America, looking for Buddhas along the road and the people who meet them: prophets in G-strings dancing to pay the rent, storm chasers hunting for meaning in devastating tornados, gangbangers inking God on their bodies as protection from bullets, cross-dressing terrorist angels looking for a place to sing.

Along the way Manseau and Sharlet began to wonder what the traditional scripture they encountered everywhere -- in motels, on billboards, up and down the radio dial -- would look like remade for today's world. To find out, they called upon some of today's most intriguing writers to recast books of the Bible by taking them apart, blowing them up with ink and paper.

Rick Moody recasts Jonah as a modern-day gay Jewish man living in Queens. A.L. Kennedy meditates on the absurdity of Genesis. In Samuel, April Reynolds visits a man of tremendous vision in Harlem. Peter Trachtenberg unravels the Gordian logic of Job by way of the Borscht Belt. Haven Kimmel dives into Revelation and comes out in a swoon. Woven through these divine books are Manseau and Sharlet's dispatches from the road, their Psalms of the people.

What emerges from this work of calling is not an attack on any religion, but a many-colored, positively riveting look at the facets of true belief. Together these curious minds tell the strange, funny, sad, and true story of religion in America for the spiritual seeker in all of us: A Heretic's Bible.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780743253833
• Artikelnr.: 37828161

Autorenporträt

Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Mortal, eat this scroll!
by Peter Manseau & Jeff Sharlet
The Books of Scripture
By A. L. Kennedy, Francine Prose, Michael Lesy, lê thi diem thúy, April
Reynolds, Peter Trachtenberg, Darcey Steinke, Charles Bowden, Melvin Jules
Bukiet, Eileen Myles, Rick Moody, Randall Kenan, and Haven Kimmel
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Ruth
Samuel
Job
Song of Songs
Isaiah
Ezekiel
Daniel
Jonah
Gospel
Revelation
The Book of Psalms
by Peter Manseau & Jeff Sharlet
New York, New York
Poolesville, Maryland
Henderson, North Carolina
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Broward County, Florida
An Orange Grove, Somewhere in Florida
Nashville, Tennessee
Mount Vernon, Texas
Crestone, Colorado
East L.A., California
Unincorporated Territory, Oklahoma
Heartland, Kansas
Geneva, Illinois
Acknowledgments
Contributors
A conversation with the authors
A guide to Scripture in Killing the Buddha