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Sarah Sentilles is an author, critical theorist, and scholar of religion. She is the author of three books, including her most recent memoir Breaking Up with God: A Love Story. She tweets as @sarahsentilles.

• Sexist Responses to Women Writing About Religion by Sarah Sentilles

  By Sarah Sentilles on October 23, 2012 • ( 14 )

  IN RESPONSE TO my recent memoir, Breaking Up with God: A Love Story, several reviewers came close to calling me stupid. Many suggested I didn’t know what I was talking about. As the title of the book suggests, I used the analogy of… Read More ›

• Breaking Up with Bad Stories by Sarah Sentilles

  By Sarah Sentilles on March 28, 2012 • ( 7 )

  Writing a memoir meant denying stories about myself that are no longer true. Note: This post is part of  a Religion Roundtable where the authors of three prominent faith memoirs were asked to write about their views on—and experience of—female spirituality…. Read More ›

• The Harlot Shall Be Burned with Fire: Biblical Literalism in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Sarah Sentilles

  By Sarah Sentilles on January 13, 2012 • ( 9 )

  

  (spoiler alert) Against my better judgment, this past weekend I went to see The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, directed by David Fincher who’s best known for Fight Club and The Social Network. I didn’t like the book; it unsettled me that a novel filled with… Read More ›