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viii Contributors

Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor of African literature at the University of the
Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has published widely
on South African literature, postcolonial studies, and transnationalism.
Her award-winning book, The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History
of The Pilgrim’s Progress, appeared in 2004.
Stewart M. Hoover is an internationally known scholar of media and religion
and media audiences. He is a Professor of media studies and religious
studies at the University of Colorado in the United States and directs
the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture there. He is coeditor of a
book series on media and religion published by Routledge and is author,
coauthor, or editor of eight books, most recently Religion in the Media
Age (2006).
Peter Horsfield is Associate Professor and director of Learning and
Teaching at the School of Applied Communication at RMIT University
in Melbourne. He was a member of the International Study Commission
on Media Religion and Culture and is Chair of the Porticus Fellowship
Program for Research in Media Religion and Culture. He has published
widely in media and religion and most recently was coeditor of Belief in
Media: Cultural Perspectives on Media and Christianity (2005).

Pamela E. Klassen is Associate Professor in the Department and Centre for
the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, where she also directs
the Religion and the Public Sphere Initiative. She is the author of Blessed
Events: Religion and Home Birth in America (2001) and is completing
a book on Christianity, medicine, and practices of “mediation” entitled
Healing Christians, which is forthcoming from University of California
Press.

Birgit Meyer is Professor of cultural anthropology at the Department of Social
and Cultural Anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Her
publications include Translating the Devil: Religion and Modernity Among
the Ewe in Ghana (1999); Globalization and Identity: Dialectics of Flow
and Closure (edited with Peter Geschiere, 1999); Magic and Modernity:
Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment (edited with Peter Pels 2003); and
Religion, Media and the Public Sphere (edited with Annelies Moors, 2006).
She is coeditor of Material Religion.

Jolyon Mitchell is Senior Lecturer at New College, Edinburgh University and a
former BBC World Service producer. He helped to create such programs as
“Garrison Keillor’s Radio Preachers” (1994) and an Omnibus documentary
on West African video film (2002). He is author of Visually Speaking (1999)
and Media Violence and Christian Ethics (2007); coeditor of Mediating