Power and Politics - I am Not the Yellow Peril

The life and times of an Asian American activist who tells all the truth (and dishes news and analysis) but with a leftwards slant.

Monday, April 06, 2009

Jeff Sharlett: Texas hell house and the eros of evangelicism

Whoa, Jeff Sharlett does it again. He wrote a masterpiece of an article on a particular brand of self-denial as religious fervor and ecstasy. Read Naked and Guilty for a view on what one type of evangelical Christianity preaches on recovering one's self, one's soul by denying sex and being reborn.