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Contributors R. Scott Appleby is the John M. Regan Jr. Director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of numerous books and articles on U.S. religious history and the challenges to religion in the modern world. Gregory Baum is a widely published theologian who attended Vatican II as an expert on ecumenism, and also a prolific sociologist. He is professor emeritus of religious studies at McGill University in Montreal. Kevin J. Christiano is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. He has published widely on the sociology of religion and is past president of the American Council for Québec Studies (2003–2005). Jame s D. Davidson is professor of sociology at Purdue University, where he specializes in the sociology of religion and especially research on American Catholics. He is a recent past president of the Association for the Sociology of Religion. Michele Dillon is professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire and past chair of the section for the sociology of religion of the American Sociological Association. She has written extensively about both U.S. and Irish Catholicism. Michael Gauvreau is professor of history at McMaster University in Ontario , Canada. He has written extensively on the history of religion in Canada, including a recent book on religious transformation in Quebec. Dermot Keogh is professor of history at University College, Cork, and a former journalist. He has written and reported widely on religion in Ireland, in297 cluding church-state relations, and on Irish foreign policy. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy. L awrence Taylor is professor of anthropology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He has done fieldwork in rural Ireland and along the U.S./Mexican border, and has published extensively on Irish popular religion and on contemporary border issues. Leslie Woodcock Tentler is professor of history at the Catholic University of America. She writes mainly on American religious history, particularly U.S. Catholicism. 298 c o n t r i b u t o r s ...

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