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Victor Anderson is the Oberlin Theological School professor of ethics and society, and professor of religious studies and African American and diaspora studies at Vanderbilt University. He earned a PhD in religion from Princeton University. His books include: Beyond Ontological Blackness: An Essay in African American Religious and Cultural Criticism (1995), Pragmatic Theology: Negotiating the Intersection of an American Philosophy of Religion and Public Theology (1999), and Creative Exchange: A Constructive Theology of African American Religious Experience (2008).
Rose Ann Christian was educated at Wells College and at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a PhD in religious studies. Her research interests lie primarily in the philosophy of religion—more particularly, religious epistemology and the ethics of belief. She has taught at Valdosta State College and Stanford University, and is now on the faculty of Towson University in Maryland.
William David Hart (PhD, Princeton University, 1994) is professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. His research interests include religious naturalism and humanism, ethics, politics, postcolonialism, and African American religious thought. Hart is the author of Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture (Cambridge, 2000), Black Religion: Malcolm X, Julius Lester, and Jan Willis (Palgrave, 2008), and Afro-Eccentricity: Beyond the Standard Narrative of Black Religion.
Andrew B. Irvine is assistant professor of philosophy and religion at Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee. He coedited Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion (Springer, 2009, with Purushottama Bilimoria), and is working on a book manuscript that reconceives liberation theology in light of patristic, pragmatist, and postcolonial thought.
Robert Smid is a philosopher of religion interested in methodological questions emerging out of American and comparative philosophy over the last century. His most recent work is Methodologies of Comparative Philosophy: The Pragmatist and Process Traditions, published in 2009 by SUNY Press, and he has published articles in such journals as the American Journal of Theology and Philosophy and East-West Connections. He is currently a senior lecturer in Philosophy and Religion at Curry College in Milton, MA. [End Page 170]
