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1999), Magic and Modernity. Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment
(edited with Peter Pels, Stanford University Press, 2003), and Religion,
Media and the Public Sphere (edited with Annelies Moors, Indiana
University Press, 2006). She is vice chair of the International African
Institute (London), a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences,
and one of the editors of the journal Material Religion.
Martijn Oosterbaan studied Cultural Anthropology at the University of
Amsterdam, where he submitted his dissertation titled Divine Mediations:
Pentecostalism, Politics and Mass Media in a Favela in Rio de Janeiro.
Currently he is postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Philosophy, University
of Groningen, a researcher in the NWO research project New Media,
Public Sphere and Urban Culture and a lecturer in the Department of
Anthropology at Utrecht University.
Rafael Sánchez teaches at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean
Studies, New York University. His publications focus on media, politics,
populism, and spirit mediumship. His book Dancing Jacobins. A Genealogy
of Latin American Populism is forthcoming from Stanford University Press.
His current project, “The Fate of Sovereignty in the Landscape of the
City,” focuses on urban imaginaries and territorializing practices under the
current Chávez regime in Venezuela.
Mattijs van de Port is lecturer and researcher at the Research Center for
Religion and Society at the University of Amsterdam and professor of pop-
ular religiosity at VU University Amsterdam. He is author of Gypsies,
Wars & Other Instances of the Wild. Civilization and Its Discontents in a
Serbian Town (Amsterdam University Press, 1998) and Geliquideerd.
Criminele Afrekeningen in Nederland (Meulenhoff, 2001) as well as several
articles in journals and edited volumes. Currently he is writing a book on
the divulgation of Candomblé imagery in Bahia, Brazil.