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Religion (2003) and The Religion and Film Reader (2007); and coeditor of
the Routledge book series on Media, Religion, and Culture.
Sarah M. Pike is Professor of religious studies at California State University,
Chico, where she teaches courses on American religions. Pike is the author
of Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves: Contemporary Pagans and the Search
for Community (2001) and New Age and Neopagan Religions in America
(2004) and is currently writing a book about religion and youth culture.
She chairs the Committee for the Public Understanding of Religion of
the American Academy of Religion and is on the Academy’s board of
directors.
Dorothea E. Schulz teaches in the department of religious studies, Indiana
University. She received her Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology from
Yale University and her Habilitation from the Free University, Berlin. Her
publications center on Islam in Africa, the anthropology of religion, gender
studies, media studies, and the anthropology of the state. Her recent work
is on Islamic revivalist movements in Mali that rely on various media
technologies to promote a relatively new conception of publicly enacted
religiosity.
Joyce Smith is Associate Professor in Ryerson University’s School of
Journalism, where she directs the online journalism program. In addition
to studying the representation of religion in Canadian, South African,
and American news sources, she has written on religion in popular media,
including a study of American Christian leaders (The Ministry and the
Message, 2003). She was an editor with the globeandmail.com and a
founding member of the Centre for Faith and the Media.
Jeremy Stolow teaches media history in the Department of Communication
Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, and is also an associate
member of the Center for Religion and Media (New York University)
and the Centre de recherche sur l’intermedialité (Université de Montréal).
His forthcoming book, Orthodox By Design, deals with contemporary
Orthodox Jewish print culture in transnational perspective. He is
currently researching the relationship between spiritualism and the advent
of electrically mediated technologies in the nineteenth-century Atlantic
world.

Johanna Sumiala is Research Fellow at the Academy of Finland/University of
Helsinki and holds a Ph.D. in media studies. Author of numerous articles,
she is also a coeditor of and contributor to such books as Implications of
the Sacred (2006) and Images and Communities (2007). She is currently