On Religion and Memory

Contributors

269 c o n t r i b u t o r s Mette Birkedal Bruun is Professor of Church History at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of Parables: Bernard of Clairvaux’s Mapping of Spiritual Topography (Brill 2007) and the co-editor of Negotiating Heritage: Memories of the Middle Ages (with Stephanie Glaser; Brepols 2008) and Commonplace Culture in Western Europe in the Early Modern Period I: Reformation, Counter Reformation and Revolt (Brepols 2011) and Negotiating Heritage: Memories of the Middle Ages (with Stephanie Glaser; Brepols 2008). Peter Cramer published a study on the shifting perception and effect of baptism in the early Middle Ages (Baptism and Change, Cambridge 1993) and is at present interested in aspects of Europe from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, and also in the relation between history and fiction in various periods. He teaches History, History of Art, and Literature at Winchester College in the UK. Brian Cummings is Anniversary Professor of English at the University of York and Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellow. He is the author of The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace (Oxford 2002). From 2009 to 2012 he was a research professor as the recipient of the Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship, working on his project “The Confessions of Shakespeare.” In 2011 he published his edition of The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662 (Oxford). Rokus de Groot held a personal chair for “Music in the Netherlands since 1600” at the University of Utrecht (1994–2000). From 2000 until his retirement in 2012 he was Professor of Musicology at the University of Amsterdam . He has published extensively on the aesthetics and techniques of contemporary music composition, on the re-use in contemporary music of past religious concepts, and on Edward Saïd’s concept of polyphony and counterpoint. He is also a composer, working with musicians from different cultural backgrounds on projects of mutual learning (Songs of 270 Contributors Songs: The Life of Mirabai, Dehli 2005; Layla and Majnun, Amsterdam 2006; ShivaShakti, Chennai 2009). Charles Hallisey is Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer at Harvard Divinity School. He joined the faculty of Harvard Divinity in 2007 after teaching at the University of Wisconsin in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia and the Religious Studies Program. His research centers on Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, Pali language and literature, Buddhist ethics, and literature in Buddhist cultures. Babette Hellemans earned her PhD at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Utrecht University. She is currently Assistant Professor in History at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Hellemans has published on historiographical and intellectual themes such as the anthropology of eschatology in Western medieval culture, including modern theories of temporality, semantics, and images. She is the author of La Bible Moralisée: une oeuvre à part entière. Temporalité, sémiotique et création au XIIIe siècle (Brepols 2010). At present she is completing a monograph , Peter Abelard (1079–1142) and the Varieties of the Self: An Intellectual Biography. Ernst van den Hemel completed a research MA in Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam in 2006. In his dissertation, Tracing Circles: Literary Dimensions in the Work of John Calvin (2011), he combined an emphasis on literature and philosophy to analyze the poetic structure of John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion. He is the author of Calvinisme en Poltitiek: Tussen Verzet en Berusting [Calvinism and Politics: Between Resistance and Resignation] (Boom 2009). Van den Hemel teaches at the Amsterdam University College. Sander van Maas is Buma Professor of Dutch Contemporary Music at Utrecht University and Assistant Professor of Contemporary Music at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on the philosophy and criticism of twentieth- and twenty-first-century music. His publications include The Reinvention of Religious Music: Olivier Messiaen’s Breakthrough Toward the Beyond (Fordham 2009) and forthcoming volumes on Liminal Auralities and Contemporary Music and Spirituality. In 2010–11 van Maas held visiting positions at Boston and Harvard universities. Willemien Otten was Professor of the History of Christianity at Utrecht University from 1997. Since 2007 she has been Professor of the Theology and the History of Christianity at the University of Chicago. She has pub- Contributors 271 lished on Western medieval and early Christian theology, including the continuity of (Neo) Platonic themes. Among her books are The Anthropology of Johannes...