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About the Contributors John Wesley Cook is a professor emeritus at Yale University and a past president of the Henry Luce Foundation. His Ph.D. from Yale University was in religion and the arts, with a dissertation on Gothic architecture, especially that in Germany. He has published books, articles, and videotapes about Christianity and the arts. His major interest is in the material culture of Christianity and how it has functioned theologically. James Hudnut-Beumler is the Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished Professor of American Religious History and dean of Vanderbilt University’s divinity school. He received his Ph.D. degree in religion from Princeton University . He is the author of Looking for God in the Suburbs: The Religion of the American Dream and Its Critics, - and Generous Saints: Congregations Rethinking Money and Ethics. Lawrence H. Mamiya, Paschall-Davis Professor of Religion and Africana Studies at Vassar College, received his Ph.D. degree in the sociology of religion and social ethics from Columbia University. He is the coauthor with C. Eric Lincoln of The Black Church in the African American Experience and “Faith Based Institutions and Family Services in African American Muslim Masjids and Black Churches,” Journey Inward, Journey Outward. He also received a Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and a major research grant for the study of the black churches and African American Muslim congregations. Martin E. Marty is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. Peter J. Paris, Elmer G. Homrighausen Professor of Christian Social Ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary, received his Ph.D. degree in ethics and  society from the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Social Teaching of the Black Churches and The Spirituality of African Peoples: The Search for a Common Moral Discourse. He has been elected president of the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Christian Ethics, and the Society for the Study of Black Religion. He is currently directing a multiyear Pan-Africa Seminar on Religion and Poverty among African Peoples on the Continent and in the Diaspora. Leonora Tubbs Tisdale, a free-lance author, preacher, and teacher, is a parish associate at the Presbyterian Church in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and the former Elizabeth M. Engle Associate Professor of Preaching and Worship at Princeton Theological Seminary from which she also received her Ph.D. degree. She is the author of Preaching as Local theology and Folk Art and coeditor, with Brian K. Blount, of Making Room at the Table: An Invitation to Multicultural Worship. She is currently the vice-president of the Academy of Homiletics. Judith Weisenfeld, an associate professor of religion at Vassar College, received her Ph.D. degree in religion from Princeton University. She is the author of African-American Women and Christian Activism: New York’s Black YWCA, – and the editor, with Richard Newman, of This Far by Faith: Readings in African American Women’s Religious Biography. She has been a visiting fellow at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion at Yale University and the recipient of a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities.  About the Contributors ...

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