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| ix Acknowledgments Most of the chapters in this book were originally shared and discussed among the contributors and other scholars in the fall of 2007 and spring of 2008. We would like to acknowledge the following for their helping to make possible this initial research and sharing of ideas: • our former and present deans at Regent University School of Divinity— Donald Tucker, Michael Palmer, Joy Brathwaite, and Randall Pannell— each of whom supported this project variously in its different phases; • Dr. David Bearinger and his staff at the Virginia Council for the Humanities , for a grant that underwrote some of the expenses behind this work; • the contributors to this volume, each of whom graciously accepted our invitation to participate in this project, and who have worked diligently with us to prepare their chapters for publication; • Louis B. Gallien Jr., who as an engaging interlocutor served as respondent to the initial chapter drafts, and who then crafted his own chapter for inclusion in this volume; • our School of Divinity and wider university staff—Misty Martin, Pidge Bannin, Lelia Fry, Charles Eichmann, Brian McLean, and Mark Stevenson —for their behind-the-scenes work; • graduate assistants, Bradford McCall and Bashiri Durham, for yeomen’s labor, and Timothy Lim Teck Ngern, for his help with the manuscript and with the index; • Jennifer Hammer, our expeditious and indefatigable editor at New York University Press; Peter J. Paris, series editor; and the anonymous reviewers for the Press—all of whose comments have combined to improve the volume; • Despina P. Gimbel, for her expert copyediting, and Gabrielle Begue and others at the Press for their patient professionalism in moving the manuscript through to its various phases of publication. x | Acknowledgments Professor Ogbu Kalu passed away suddenly and without warning in early January 2009, just as we were putting together the final touches on the manuscript for this book. At the time of his death, he was one of the leading interpreters of African Christianity, the African Christian diaspora, and Afro-Pentecostalism. We are additionally grateful to Drs. Wilhelmina J. Kalu and Stella Kalu-Egwim, and Professors David D. Daniels III and Jacob Olupona , for their help with revising Professor Kalu’s chapter for inclusion in this volume. The editors dedicate this book to our good friend and colleague Ogbu U. Kalu, with gratitude to God for his life and work, and with fond affection of his memory. Estrelda Y. Alexander and Amos Yong ...

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