Peter Manseau

Peter Manseau is an American writer and the religion curator at the National Museum of American History, the Smithsonian.

Writing in The National Interest, Ivan Plis describes Manseau as an "unusual" choice for curator of the religion section of a history museum, given that his previous jobs have included running the webzine Killing the Buddha, a self-described “religion magazine for people made anxious by churches,” and because of what Plis describes as Manseau's attraction "to the bizarre and sometimes discomforting ways in which religion makes us behave."[1] Manseau told The New Yorker that his "real interest" is in language, not religion.[2]

Manseau wrote a memoir entitled "Vows, about his mother, a former Catholic nun, and father, a former Catholic priest.[1][2]

In 2009 Manseau won the National Jewish Book Award and the Sophie Brody Award for his debut novel Songs for the Butcher's Daughter.[2]

Bibliography

  • Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible, coauthored by Jeff Sharlet. 2004 Free Press ISBN 0-7432-3276-3
  • Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son, 2005 Free Press
  • Songs for the Butcher's Daughter: A Novel, 2008 Free Press
  • Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith, 2009 Beacon Press. Co-edited with Jeff Sharlet. ISBN 0-8070-7739-9
  • Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World's Holy Dead, 2009 Free Press
  • One Nation Under Gods: A New American History, 2015 Little, Brown and Company
  • Melancholy Accidents: Three Centuries of Stray Bullets and Bad Luck, 2016 Melville House Publishing
  • Objects of Devotion: Religion in Early America, 2017 Smithsonian Books
  • The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost, 2017 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

References

  1. 1 2 Plis, Ivan (27 June 2017). "The Smithsonian Goes to Church". The National Interest. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 Larson, Sarah (16 February 2009). "The Exchange: Peter Manseau". The New Yorker. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
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