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xiii Acknowledgments many people and organizations helped to make this project a reality. many thanks for the support and feedback received from the Harvard Divinity School’s Women’s Studies in religion program, especially Ann Braude, who sponsored some of the research in Cuba presented in this book. We are grateful as well for the support received from the University of texas at Austin. We also would like to acknowledge the support received from Dean Gaines Foster, from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Louisiana State University. thank you also to the chair of the Department of English at LSU, rick moreland, who enthusiastically believed in this project. We give much thanks to all at the Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) program at LSU. WGS provided necessary support for completing this project, in addition to offering an important intellectual venue for working through the main components of this work. LSU’s programs in Louisiana and Caribbean Studies and Atlantic Studies were both extremely helpful and supportive of the collaborative endeavors presented in this book. there are also many colleagues whose feedback was crucial to developing our vision in the anthology. We are grateful to Aisha BelisoDe Jesús for her thoughtful comments in formulating the early stages of this project. Lucinda romberg also read early versions of the work and provided much insight. We also thank norma Cantú and Katey Borland for their useful readings and responses. LSU colleagues Bill Boelhower, Benjamin Kahn, Lara Glenum, Pallavi rastogi, Carolyn Ware, rosan Jordan, and Frank De Caro graciously commented on the project in ways that greatly improved our scope and focus. We are grateful to Arturo Lindsay, Juana Alicia, Jamie Davidson, nelson Eubanks, and Erin Colcord for graciously allowing us to reproduce the powerful artwork and photography found in this book. We especially want to thank the spiritual communities in Africa, Cuba, Brazil, Panama, Puerto rico, and the United States who generously allowed their wisdom and knowledge xiv Acknowledgments to inform and shape the research presented in this book. Finally, we would like to recognize our families and loved ones—Eric mayer-García, rai otero, raymond m. otero, robert and Blanca Alvarez, and maria Julia melchor—for their moral support and belief in the volume. A dupe, nuestras gracias. ...