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r. marie griffith is a professor of religion at Princeton University. She is the author of God’s Daughters: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission and Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity, both published by the University of California Press. She is completing a documentary history of American religion for Oxford University Press and is also working on a book about the sexual beliefs and practices of American evangelicals . barbara dianne savage is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938–1948 (University of North Carolina Press, 1999). She is currently completing a book on the politics of African American religion, which examines the relationship between African American religion, politics, and culture in the twentieth century. wallace best is an assistant professor of African American Religion at Harvard Divinity School. He is the author of Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915–1952 (Princeton University Press, 2005). He has received several research awards, including fellowships at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Religion and the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. anthea d. butler is an assistant professor of religion at the University of Rochester, teaching American and African American Religious History. Her publications include a forthcoming book, Making a Sanctified World: Women in the Church of God in Christ (University of North Carolina Press, 2006), and a chapter in Religion and the South: Protestants and Others in History and in Culture, also with UNC Press. a b o u t t h e c o n t r i b u t o r s lisa gail collins is the Associate Professor in Art and Africana Studies on the Class of 1951 Chair at Vassar College. She is the author of The Art of History : African American Women Artists Engage the Past (Rutgers University Press, 2002) and Art by African-American Artists: Selections from the 20th Century (Metropolitan Museum of Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2003). She is also coauthor of African-American Artists, 1929–1945: Prints, Drawings, and Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Yale University Press, 2003) and coeditor of New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement (Rutgers University Press, 2006). deidre helen crumbley is an associate professor of Africana Studies in Interdisciplinary Studies at North Carolina State University. Her book Spirit, Structure and Flesh: Gender Practices in Three African Instituted Churches is forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Press. Her current research project focuses on the intersection of race, gender, migration, and religious innovation in the rise of an African American, female-founded storefront church. In addition to her terminal degree in anthropology, she holds a masters of theological studies. marla frederick-mcglathery is an assistant professor of African and African American Studies and of the Study of Religion at Harvard University . An anthropologist by training, she is the author of Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith (University of California Press, 2003). She is currently researching the influence of religious media, more specifically television ministries, on constructions of race and gender in the African diaspora. cheryl townsend gilkes is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Colby College and Director of the African American Studies Program. Her book, “If It Wasn’t For The Women . . .”: Black Women’s Experience And Womanist Culture In Church And Community (Orbis Books, 2001), contains a selection of her essays on women and the Sanctified Church. She is currently working on That Blessed Book: The Bible and the African American Cultural Imagination (Orbis Books, in progress). rachel elizabeth harding is an independent scholar, consultant, and writer living in Denver, Colorado. A Latin Americanist historian, Harding explores the intersections of religion, culture, and memory in the experience of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora. She is author of A Refuge in Thunder: Candombl é and Alternative Spaces of Blackness (Indiana University Press, 2000) 358 About the Contributors [3.141.0.61] Project MUSE (2024-04-17 23:07 GMT) and other essays on Afro-Brazilian religion. She is also a poet whose work has been widely published. tracey e. hucks is an associate professor of religion at Haverford College. She is the author of several articles on Afro-Caribbean religion and the Black Church, as well as a piece...