After Modernity?: Secularity, Globalization, and the Reenchantment of the World

Contributors

h 323 Contributors Editor James K. A. Smith is associate professor of philosophy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. As specialist in philosophical theology and contemporary French philosophy, Smith works at the intersection of philosophy, religion, politics, and science. He is the author of several books, including Speech and Theology: Language and the Logic of Incarnation (Routledge, 2002), Introducing Radical Orthodoxy (Baker Academic, 2004), Jacques Derrida: Live Theory (Continuum, 2005), and Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church (Baker Academic, 2006). He is also the editor of The Hermeneutics of Charity: Interpretation, Selfhood, and Postmodern Faith (Brazos Press, 2004) and Radical Orthodoxy and the Reformed Tradition (Baker Academic, 2005). Contributors Luke Bretherton is senior lecturer in theology and politics at King’s College London. He has worked with a variety of faith-based NGOs, mission organizations, and churches in a wide range of cultural contexts both in the United Kingdom and elsewhere (notably East Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia). He is the author of Hospitality as Holiness: Christian Witness amid Moral Diversity (Ashgate, 2006), and coedited a volume entitled Remembering Our Future: Explorations in Deep Church (Paternoster, 2007). He is currently working on 324 Contributors a book on Christianity and different aspects of contemporary politics as well as an Arts & Humanities Research Council funded project on Christianity, urban politics, and pursuit of the common good that focuses on broad-based community organizing as a case study. Janel Curry is dean for research and scholarship and professor of geography at Calvin College. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Curry has held numerous leadership positions in the area of rural geography, including being chair of the board of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University and chair of the Rural Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. Dr. Curry has published on the topic of community and natural resources in journals such as the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, The Geographic Review, Agriculture and Human Values, and Society and Natural Resources. Michael S. Horton is professor of theology and apologetics at Westminster Seminary in California, where he specializes in systematic and historical theology. His work has appeared in journals such as the International Journal of Systematic Theology, Westminster Theological Journal, Books & Culture, and Modern Reformation. He is editor of several books, including A Confessing Theology for Postmodern Times and the author of over a dozen books, including most recently Covenant and Salvation (Westminster John Knox). Mebs Kanji is assistant professor of political science at the University of Calgary. His research interests are in the areas of Canadian and comparative politics, focusing mainly on the study of values and value diversity, and their implications for social cohesion, political support, and democratic governance. He is coeditor of Priming Public Opinion Research: A Sustained and Systematic Approach, 2nd ed. (ITP Nelson, 2006). Ronald A. Kuipers is assistant professor of the philosophy of religion at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. He recently completed a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto’s department of political science. His research focuses on those areas where issues in the philosophy of religion intersect with contemporary social and political thought on matters of judgment, criticism, and Contributors 325 secularization. He is the author of Critical Faith: Toward a Renewed Understanding of Religious Life and Its Public Accountability, and has published numerous articles in journals and anthologies. John Milbank is professor of religion, politics, and ethics at the University of Nottingham, England, having previously taught at Lancaster , Cambridge, and the University of Virginia. One of the leading figures associated with radical orthodoxy, Milbank is the author of Theology and Social Theory (2nd ed., Blackwell), The Word Made Strange (Blackwell), Being Reconciled (Routledge), and The Suspended Middle: Henri de Lubac and the Debate Concerning the Supernatural (Eerdmans). Along with Graham Ward and Catherine Pickstock, he is editor of the Radical Orthodoxy series published by Routledge. J. David Richardson is Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs at Syracuse University. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts , andaseniorfellow atthe Institute forInternationalEconomics, Washington, D.C. From 1970 to 1991 he was on the economics faculty of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has also taught on a visiting basis at the University of...