Jeff Sharlet is a contributing editor for Harpers and Rolling Stone, and his writing on religion, culture, and politics has appeared in The Dallas Morning News, Nerve, Oxford American, and Salon, among other publications. Sharlet was a founding editor of The Revealer, an online review of religion journalism, and of Killing the Buddha. He is the author of “Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible” and the forthcoming (tentatively titled) “In the Shadow of the Cross: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of America’s Civil Religion.”