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Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between Review"Sweet Heaven When I Die" is, for the observer of American religion, either a shock or a relief. Thank God, I say--the American spiritual landscape is not, after all, captured in Gallup polls (much less Barna or Pew), in percentages of church (or other "places of worship") attendance, which are the preferred measurements of tone-deaf newspapers and political strategists. As he has been doing for well over a decade, but here better than ever, Jeff Sharlet shows that, and how, the heart of this country's spiritual life is in its supposed fringes. A New Age snake-oil saleswoman greases the engines of New York's high-end real estate market. A UFO enthusiast becomes one of Washington's chief fundamentalist power-brokers. A huge media monopoly corners the market on the underground punk scene. What do punks have to do with "faith"? By the time you get to them you'll know.
For the non-observer of American religion, however, "Sweet Heaven" is even better, because you won't be clouded by all the dumb hang-ups. This is, above all, a book of stories, and a book about people--mainly extraordinary "ordinary" people whom the author encounters by accident or intention. Each story holds its own, and where there are points to be made, they're made only by implication, through the lives of those we meet. It's about radical aspirations, and the creep of big money into small communities, and it's about music, frustration, land, and desire. Two chapter titles include the same expletive.
This book reminds me why, when I discovered Sharlet's first book, "Killing the Buddha," I was almost afraid to read it. He exposes us to ourselves in a way that's uncomfortably dead-on, yet also so pleasurable, and funny, that you'll want it never to end.Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between Overview
Linked narrative nonfiction from the best-selling author of The Family.
No one explores the borderlands of belief and skepticism quite like Jeff Sharlet. He is ingenious, farsighted, and able to excavate the worlds of others, even the flakiest and most fanatical, with uncanny sympathy. Here, he reports back from the far reaches of belief, whether in the clear mountain air of "Sweet Fuck All, Colorado" or in a midnight congregation of urban anarchists celebrating a victory over police.From Dr. Cornel West to legendary banjo player Dock Boggs, from the youth evangelist Ron Luce to America's largest "Mind, Body, Spirit Expo," Sharlet profiles religious radicals, realists, and escapists. Including extended journeys published here for the first time, Sweet Heaven When I Die offers a portrait of our spiritual landscape that calls to mind Joan Didion's classic Slouching Towards Bethlehem.

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