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  • Contributors

Matt Artz is a native Southern Californian who has been photographing for more than thirty years. An extensive collection of his work can be seen online at www.mattartz.com.

René Bakker is a Dutch photographer with a passion for monochrome photography. http://home.wanadoo.nl/rene.r.bakker

David Brakke is Professor of Religious Studies, Adjunct Professor of History, and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of Demons and the Making of the Monk: Spiritual Combat in Early Christianity (Harvard, 2006) and editor of the Journal of Early Christian Studies. dbrakke@indiana.edu

Patrick S. Cheng is the coordinator of Queer Asian Spirit, www.queer asians-pirit.org, an organization that affirms and supports the lives of LGBT Asian people of faith. He is a graduate of Yale College, Harvard Law School, and Union Theological Seminary, patrick@queerasianspirit.org

Theresa Coletti is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Mary Magdalene and the Drama of the Saints (Pennsylvania, 2004), Naming the Rose: Eco, Medieval Signs and Modern Theory (Cornell, 1988), and many articles on late medieval English literature. tcoletti@ umd.edu

Mary Frohlich, RSCJ, is Associate Professor of Spirituality and Director of the M.A. Program at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. She has written extensively on Thérèse of Lisieux as well as on other topics in the discipline of spirituality, frohlich@ctu.edu

Robert C. Fuller is Caterpillar Professor of Religious Studies at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. His Spiritual, But Not Religious: Understanding Unchurched America and Religious Revolutionaries: The Remaking of American Religion (Oxford University Press, 2001) are among his studies of spiritual innovation in American religious life. His newest book, Wonder: From Emotion to Spirituality (University of North Carolina Press, 2006), is an interdisciplinary investigation of the biological and psychological sources of personal spirituality. rcf@hilltop.bradley.edu

Eva Hooker, CSC, was Regents Professor of Poetry at Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota. In 2006-2007, she begins an appointment as writer-in-residence [End Page 283] at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana. The Winter Keeper (Chapiteau, 2000), a handbound chapbook was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award in poetry. Her poetry has been recently published in Salmagundi, The Grove Review, and Runes, ehooker@saintmarys.edu

W. Clark Gilpin teaches the modern history of Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School and is currently writing about the letter from prison as a genre of religious literature in early modern England, wgilpin@uchicago.edu

Maxwell E. Johnson is Professor of Liturgy in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is also an ordained Lutheran minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He specializes in the study of early Christian liturgies, the rites of Christian initiation, and the liturgical year. His book, The Rites of Christian Initiation: Their Evolution and Interpretation (Pueblo, 1999), is widely used in schools of theology and seminaries in the United States and elsewhere, mjohnson@nd.edu

Michael Kenna has been a photographer for over three decades. In 2001, he was made a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture in France. His photographs have been exhibited worldwide and are in numerous museum collections. Over twenty books and catalogs have been published on his work, www.michaelkenna.com

Jung Ha Kim is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Georgia State University. Her publications include Bridge-makers and Cross-bearers: Korean American Women and the Church, Religions in Asian American Building Faith Communities in the United States (with Pyong Gap Min) (American Academy of Religion, 1996), Singing the Lord's Songs in a New Land (Westminster John Knox, 2005). She is currently working on a sequel of Bridge-Makers and Cross-bearers and Asian American experiences of the American South.

Lezlie Knox is Assistant Professor of History at Marquette University. Her research focuses on the Order of Saint Clare in later medieval Italy, and specifically on the relationship between gender and concepts of identity within the Franciscan Order, lezlie.knox@marquette.edu

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