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Contributors

Maria José A. de Abreu just finished her dissertation PhD-thesis titled “In
Midair: Breath, Media, Body, Space. A Study of the Catholic Charismatic
Renewal Movement in Brazil” at the Amsterdam School for Social Science
Research (University of Amsterdam). In the past she has worked in the
fields of physical anthropology, museum studies, and material culture, and
studied the political receptions of Indian Cinema in the Portuguese post-
dictatorship period. Her present research interests deal with the versatile
articulations of media technologies, body, space, and ethics applied to the
Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Brazil.
Marleen de Witte is a postdoctoral researcher at VU University Amsterdam,
where she works on a project on the dynamics of cultural heritage in
Ghana. Her research interests include religion and media, anthropology of
death, popular culture, and Africa. She has published Long Live the Dead!
Changing Funeral Celebrations in Asante, Ghana (Aksant, 2001) and sev-
eral articles in journals and volumes. Her dissertation “Spirit Media:
Charismatics, Traditionalists, and Mediation Practices in Ghana” deals
with public manifestations of Pentecostalism and African traditional reli-
gion in Ghana’s new mediascape and the relationship between mass media
and religious practice.
Francio Guadeloupe’s roots and routes connect the French, Dutch,
English, and Spanish Caribbean, and he lived most of his life in Europe.
Currently he holds the position of Assistant Professor of Cultural
Anthropology at the Radboud University Nijmegen (RUN). He is also
attached to the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and
Caribbean Studies (KITLV) as a postdoctoral Research Fellow, and asso-
ciated to the University of St. Martin (USM in the Dutch Antilles) as
extraordinary Research Fellow. His full-length study on the politics of
belonging on Saint Martin & Sint Maarten entitled Chanting Down the
New Jerusalem: Calypso, Christianity, and Capitalism in the Caribbean was
published by the University of California Press in 2009.