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Contributors
Editor
David Morgan is Professor of religion at Duke University and author of
several books, including Visual Piety (1998), The Sacred Gaze (2005),
and The Lure of Images (2007). He was a member and chairperson of
the International Study Commission on Religion, Media, and Culture.
Morgan currently coedits the Routledge book series “Media, Religion, and
Culture” and is cofounder and coeditor of the journal Material Religion.
Contributors
J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu is Associate Professor of contemporary
African Christianity and religion and media at the Trinity Theological
Seminary, Legon, Accra, Ghana. He was a member of the International
Study Commission on Media, Religion, and Culture, has been a visiting
scholar at Harvard University, and currently edits the Trinity Journal
of Church and Theology. In addition to having written his book African
Charismatics (2005), he has published widely on Christianity and media
in contemporary Africa.
David Chidester is Professor of religious studies and director of the Institute
for Comparative Religion in Southern Africa at the University of Cape
Town. His books include Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, the People’s
Temple, and Jonestown (1988; revised edition, 2003); Savage Systems:
Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa (1996);
Christianity: A Global History (2000); Nelson Mandela: In His Own
Words (2004); and Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular
Culture (2005).
