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Title: The Devil Is a Gentleman: Exploring America's Religious Fringe
Author: J.C. Hallman
Narrator: Charles Carroll
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-29-11
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Publisher's Summary:
An anecdote-fueled account of the most unusual religious movements in America today, from witch covens to snake handlers to atheists to UFO cults. Hallman visits each in a kind of adventure, telling their stories in a style that blends mini-history and first hand reportage. He is accompanied by the ghost of his patron saint, William James, the author of perhaps the most influential book ever written on religion, The Varieties of Religious Experience. James's own story is woven through the book (and James wisdom infuses it), providing a fascinating historical and biographical counterpoint to the intrepid and hugely talented young Mr. Hallman. James argued that we could never do without religion, and wrote that the best way to understand the religious spirit was to look at its most exaggerated forms. But not even James could have imagined what the changes of the last century would do to our conception of God. Hallman's journeys and analysis provides a vivid collective portrait of American religion in all its diversity and color.

Members Reviews:
Great Book
Very entertaining book! Couldn't put it down... If you're curious about fringe religious groups, and want to live vicariously through Mr Hallman's experiences with them, and wouldn't mind being enlightened to the work of William James also, then you have found the right book!

Definitely some interesting material, but sometimes tediousâ could've used a better editor
JC Hallman travels across America, investigating religions on the "fringe." He attends an atheist convention, a Wiccan convention, travels with an evangelical Christian Pro wrestling industry, interviews Satanists and Druids, and attends a Scientology workshop undercover. The really weird thing is, I found the Satanists much more likable than the atheists â he really painted the atheists in a bad light, when he went to their convention, where as the Satanists seemed actually kind of like nice people to me. I knew that Satanists didn't really believe in Satan, the biblical Satan, and that Satanism itself is kind of a farce â a way of mocking traditional religious beliefs and turning them on their head. While I have no interest in becoming a Satanist, I actually found these people to be a lot more fun seeming than atheists, who the author characterizes as bitter and angry for the most part. The first-hand account of the black house and the Satanic mass were very interesting, and the history of Anton LeVay, though I wish it had gone more into detail of his life, was also interesting. I also enjoyed the part about the UFO cults - I didn't know anything about these groups before reading the book, apparently a very these groups in California (and I'm sure there are others around the world) that believe that "space brothers" are coming to earth to usher in a new era of peace and prosperity. Yes, these people actually exist â I found myself shaking my head in wonder at many points of this book, and at the interviews of the UFO cult in particular. And of course the Pro wrestling ministry was a trip.
The problem with this book is that a large bulk of the book makes up the author's reactions to everything he experiences very much filtered through the viewpoint of his studies about an obscure writer named William James who wrote The Varieties of Religious Experience.