The Making of Saints: Contesting Sacred Ground

Contributors

Walter Randolph Adams (Ph.D., Michigan State University; Postdoctorate in Community Health, Brown University) is af¤liated with the Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud at the Universidad Rafael Landivar in Guatemala City, where he instructs Master’s candidates in all phases of their thesis work. For the past 10 years he has served as co-director of the Brigham Young University anthropological ¤eld school in three indigenous communities in highland Guatemala. An applied anthropologist, he has conducted research in the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Paraguay. He has taught at Kansas State University, Brown University, and the University of the South. He is author of Anthropology and Theology: Gods, Icons, and God-talk (contributor and co-editor, 2000); “Social Structure in Pilgrimage and Prayer: Tzeltales as Lords and Servants” (in Pilgrimage in Latin America, 1991); and “Political and Economic Correlates of Pilgrimage Behavior” (Anales de Antropología, 1983), among other publications. Yoram Bilu (Ph.D., Hebrew University) is Professor of Anthropology and Psychology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests include culture and mental health, folk religion, Moroccan Jews, and the sancti¤cation of space in Israel. His awards include the Bryce Boyer Prize (1986), the Stirling Prize (1997), and the Bahat Prize (2003). He was the Gilon Visiting Professor for Israel Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary (2002). He is author of Without Bounds: The Life and Death of Rabbi Ya’aqov Wazana (2000); Grasping Land: Space and Place in Contemporary Israeli Discourse and Experience (coeditor , 1997); and numerous articles in professional journals. Roberto Bosca (Ph.D., Universidad de Buenos Aires) is Professor of Law at the Universidad Austral in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is the former Dean of the School of Law and is currently Director of the Department of International and Institutional Affairs at Austral. Professor Bosca is currently working with the Carnegie Council (USA) on issues related to international ethics. His reContributors search interests include the interrelations of religion and politics, the cultural impact of religion, and religious liberty and fundamentalism. He is the author of La Iglesia nacional peronista, Factor religioso y poder político (1997); New Age: La utopía religiosa del ¤n de siglo (1993); and many other publications in English and Spanish. Erika Doss (Ph.D., University of Minnesota) is Professor of Art History at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and specializes in 20th-century and contemporary American art. She is the author of Twentieth-Century American Art (2002); Looking at Life Magazine (editor, 2001); Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, and Image (1999); Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American Communities (1995); and Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism : From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism (1991). James F. Hopgood (Ph.D., The University of Kansas) is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and former department chair at Northern Kentucky University. In addition to his research on the “Deaners,” his areas of research interest include belief systems, worldview, religious movements, and urbanization, with¤eldwork in northeast Mexico, Japan, and the United States. Publications include “Monterrey, Mexico” (in Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures, 2002); “Identity , Gender, and Myth: Expressions of Mesoamerican Change and Continuity” (Latin American Research Review, 2000); Settlers of Bajavista: Social and Economic Adaptation in a Mexican Squatter Settlement (1979); and several recent chapters on the Deaners. He is a recent recipient of a Sasakawa Fellowship, Japan Studies Institute, San Diego. A former president of the Central States Anthropological Society, he is currently editor of the society’s CSAS Bulletin. June Macklin (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is Rosemary Park Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Connecticut College, and a former chair of the department . Her areas of research interest include popular and folk religion, new religions, and medical anthropology, and she has conducted ¤eld research in Mexico, South America, and the United States. Among her publications are “New Religious Movements and Ritual Transformations of the Modern Self” (Scripta Etnológica, 2000); “El chamanismo y el neo-chamanismo en la declinaci ón del mileno: los usos de los estados alterados de conciencia” (in Religión y Etnicidad, 1997); “Saints, Near-Saints, and Society” (contributor and co-editor, Journal of Latin American Lore, 1988); The Chicano Experience (contributor and co-editor, 1979); Cultural Change and Structural Stability in a Mexican American Community (1976); “Folk Saints, Healers, and Spiritist Cults in Northern Mexico” (in Revista/Review Interamericana, 1974); and The Human Nature Industry (co-author, 1973). William Breen Murray (Ph.D., McGill University) is Professor of Anthropology and a former department...