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| 265 About the Contributors Heather Clingenpeel is a graduate student in the Department of Psychology at Georgia Southern University. Ryan T. Cragun is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Tampa. His research interests include secularism, secularization, and Mormonism. Martha Bradley Evans is dean of the Honors College at University of Utah. Her books include Four Zinas: A Story of Mothers and Daughters on the Mormon Frontier and Kidnapped from That Land: The Government Raids on the Short Creek Polygamists. Jennifer Lara Fagen is an assistant professor of sociology at Lamar University. Her areas of specialization include gender roles, sexual violence, feminist theory and Holocaust studies. Carlene Gonzales is a doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary Social Psychology program at the University of Nevada, Reno. Michael W. Hamilton is on the faculty of Principia College in Elsah, Illinois. He teaches American religious history, comparative religions, and religion and ethics. Camille B. Lalasz is a doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary Social Psychology program at the University of Nevada, Reno. Michael Nielsen is professor and chair of psychology at Georgia Southern University. His research focuses on Mormonism and on religious conflicts and boundaries, and he is coeditor of the journal Archive of the Psychology of Religion. 266 | About the Contributors Susan J. Palmer is professor of religious studies at Dawson College in Quebec, Canada, and also teaches at Concordia University. She is the author of Moon Sisters, Krishna Mothers, Rajneesh Lovers, of Aliens Adored: Rael’s UFO Religion, and The New Heretics of France, among other books. James T. Richardson is professor of sociology and judicial studies, and director of the Grant Sawyer Center for Justice Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the coauthor and editor of ten books, including Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe. Tamara Schreinert is Court Master in the Family Court, Second Judicial District Court in Reno, Nevada, where she presides over protection order, custody, and divorce cases. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and previously worked for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services . She also practiced law in Los Angeles, focusing on child welfare and juvenile law, before returning to her hometown of Reno. Jean Swantko Wiseman has practiced constitutional, family, and criminal defense law for thirty years. She has represented the Twelve Tribes as a trial and appellate advocate, and is a member of the same group. She is also the producer of a documentary film, Children of the Island Pond Raid: An Emerging Culture (2006). Stuart A. Wright is professor of sociology and director of research in the Office of Research at Lamar University. He is the author or editor of five books including Armageddon in Waco: Critical Perspectives on the Branch Davidian Conflict and Patriots, Politics, and the Oklahoma City Bombing. ...

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