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a c k n o w l e d g m e n t s The idea for this volume came out of the international conference ‘‘Theology , Faith, and Politics’’ held in May 2005 at the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities at Northwestern University, which was organized by Robert Gooding-Williams, at the time the center’s director, and myself. I am grateful to Robert Gooding-Williams for his help, friendly advice, and unflagging support of this editorial project in the years since. I would also like to thank all the contributors to this volume, some of whom were present at the original conference and others who generously offered their texts for this project at a later stage. Last, I am greatly indebted to Helen Tartar, who encouraged me to pursue this project from the very beginning, and whom I am very lucky to count as my editor. Chapter 8 is from William E. Connolly, ‘‘The Evangelical-Capitalist Resonance Machine,’’ Political Theory 33, no. 6 (December 2005): 869– 886. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. vii ...

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