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Acknowledgments I would like to thank Bryan Rennie, editor of the Issues in the Study of Religion series, for giving me the opportunity to publish in this series. Bryan has been very supportive of my work through the years and that support is very much appreciated. I would also like to thank the team at SUNY that made this book happen. An author produces a manuscript; the publisher produces a book. There’s all the difference between the two. Nancy Ellgate deserves special mention for championing this book and for her patience with my tardiness in finishing it. My thanks to the Research Activity Committee of The University of Alabama for their financial support for this project. Support for research in the Humanities is hard to come by and their consistent support of Alabama faculty is a great service to the academic community as a whole. My thanks also to two colleagues who have been especially supportive over the years. Early in the development of this project Thomas Ryba gave critical but positive feedback on its basic conceptions. Jeppe Jensen has been extremely supportive as source of intellectual feedback and sage advice over the years. His concerns for my career and his friendship have made a very real difference. I would also like to thank Hayden White, James Clifford, David Hoy, and Carlos Noreña, all of the University of California, Santa Cruz, for reading and commenting on a much earlier version of this project. The support and engagement of my friends, Tiffany, Karl, and Jonlaura has been much appreciated. I would like to thank my friend and colleague Lysa Rivera for her support for my work. Her collegiality and her role as interlocutor in an ongoing and wide-ranging conversation were invaluable to me. Finally, my good friend Stephanie Brennan also deserves mention in that regard for her support and friendship throughout the years of xi xii work on this project. Anyone who can recite Ginsberg from memory and splice genes is good company, indeed. I thank her especially for the conversation we have been pursuing over many years. While it did not always bear directly on this work, it most definitely affected my sense of where this project belongs in the larger scheme of things. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...

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