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299 Notes on Contributors William L. Andrews is the E. Maynard Adams Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His publications include To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of African American Autobiography, 1760–1865 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986). His edited volumes include Classic African American Women’s Narratives (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002). Catherine Bell is the Bernard J. Hanley Professor of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University. Her publications include Ritual: Dimensions and Perspectives (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997) and Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992). Yvonne P. Chireau is associate professor of religion at Swarthmore College. Her publications include Dimensions of the Supernatural in African American Religion (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006) and Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003). Sathianathan Clarke is professor of theology, culture, and mission at Wesley Theological Seminary. His publications include Dalits and Christianity: Subaltern Religion and Liberation Theology in India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998) and “Dalit Religion as Resourceful Symbolic Domain,” Religion and Society 49, nos. 2, 3 (2004): 30–48. Jo Diamond is lecturer in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Her publications include “Royn Kahukiwa: Nurturing Mäori Identity,” Art AsiaPacific Quarterly 23 (2002): 76–81, and “Hine-Titama: Mäori Contributions to Feminist Discourses and Identity Politics,” Australian Journal of Social Issues 34, no. 4 (1999): 310–317. Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje is professor of ethnomusicology as well as chair and director of the ethnomusicology archive at the University of California , Los Angeles. Her publications include American Black Spiritual and Gospel Songs from Southeast Georgia: A Comparative Study (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Afro-American Studies, 1978). Her edited volumes include California Soul: Music of African Americans in the West, with Eddie S. Meadows (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998). Laura E. Donaldson is associate professor of English at Cornell University. Her publications include Decolonizing Feminisms: Race, Gender, and Empire-Building Notes on Contributors 300 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992). Her edited volumes include Postcolonialism, Feminism and Religious Discourse, with Kwok Pui-Lan (New York: Routledge, 2001). Grey Gundaker is associate professor of anthropology and director of the American studies program at the College of William and Mary. Her publications include No Space Hidden: The Spirit of African American Yardwork, with Judith McWillie (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004) and Signs of Diaspora/ Diaspora of Signs: Creolization, Literacy, and Vernacular Practice in African America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). Susan F. Harding is professor of anthropology at the University of California , Santa Cruz. Her publications include The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002). Her edited volumes include Histories of the Future, with Daniel Rosenberg (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005). Leonard Harris is professor of philosophy at Purdue University. His edited volumes include Racism (New York: Humanity Press, 1999) and Exploitation and Exclusion: Race and Class in Contemporary U.S. Society, with Abebe Zegeye and Julia Maxted (London: Hans Zell Publishing Co., 1991). Tazim R. Kassam is associate professor of religion and director of graduate studies at Syracuse University. Her publications include Songs of Wisdom and Circles of Dance: Hymns of the Satpanth Ismaili Saint, Pir Shams (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1995) and “Balancing Acts: Negotiating the Ethics of Scholarship and Identity,” in Identity and the Politics of Scholarship in the Study of Religion, ed. Sheila Devaney and José Cabezón (New York: Routledge, 2004), 133–162. Leslie King-Hammond is the graduate dean at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her publications include Amalia Amaki: Boxes, Buttons, and the Blues, with Andrea D. Barnwell and Gloria Wade Gayles (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005) and Casting Shadows: Images from a New South Africa, with Edward West (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2001). Wesley A. Kort is professor in and chair of the department of religion at Duke University. His publications include “Take, Read”: Scripture, Textuality and Cultural Practice (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996) and Story, Text, and Scripture: Literary Interests in Biblical Narrative (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988). Gurinder Singh Mann is professor of global studies and religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His publications include The Making of Sikh Scripture (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001) and Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs in...

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