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Second, it is important to mention a list of significant scholars who are not
among the authors, though they might easily have been, and whose works
are repeatedly referenced: Lynn Schofield Clark, Diane Winston, Michele
Rosenthal, Faye Ginsburg, Mary Hess, Gordon Lynch, Heather Hendershot,
Heidi Campbell, Charles Hirschkind, Brian Larkin, Mia Lövheim, Alf
Linderman, Knut Lundby, Christopher Parr, Asonseh Ukah, Robert White,
Rosalind Hackett, Sean McCloud, Brent Plate, and Brad Verter. I have
learned from each of them and enjoyed their company at many conferences
around the world. Several of these colleagues have been actively involved
in the “Religion, Culture, and Communication” group at the American
Academy of Religion, which is yet another index of the turn documented
in this book. Others among them, including several of the authors in this
volume, have participated in the Media Religion Culture Project’s annual
“Global Seminars.” A large and very international group of scholars brought
together over several years by the entrepreneurial research and leadership
of Birgit Meyer represents yet another aspect of the intellectual community
that has formed around the study of religion and media. And last it is
important to mention the biennial Conference on Media, Religion, and
Culture, spearheaded by Stewart Hoover, as it marks perhaps the largest
circle of this concentric pattern of associations. I am indebted to all of them
for many years of lively and collegial conversations on the field of religion
and media.