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Contributors

Walter Armbrust is Lecturer in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University
of Oxford, where he holds the Albert Hourani Fellowship in Modern Middle
East Studies. He is author of Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt and editor
of Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and
Beyond and of a triple issue of Visual Anthropology focusing on the Middle East.

Patricia Birman is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of Rio de
Janeiro. She has published on gender-religion relationships in Afro-Brazilian re-
ligion, and Pentecostalism and religious pluralism in France and Brazil. She is
editor of Religiao e espaço público.

Sudeep Dasgupta is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of
Amsterdam. His current research includes diasporic culture in the European
context. He is editor of Constellations of the Transnational: Modernity, Culture,
Critique.

Rachel Dwyer is Reader in Indian Studies and Cinema at the School of Oriental
and African Studies, University of London. Her books include Gujarati; All You
Want Is Money, All You Need Is Love: Sex and Romance in Modern India; Pleasure
and the Nation: the History and Politics of Public Culture in India (co-edited with
Christopher Pinney); The Poetics of Devotion: The Gujarati Lyrics of Dayaram;
Cinema India: The Visual Culture of the Hindi Film (co-authored with Divia
Patel); and Yash Chopra.

Faye Ginsburg is David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology at New York Uni-
versity, where she is also the director of the Center for Media, Culture, and His-
tory, and the codirector of the Center for Religion and Media. She has been
studying the growth of media in indigenous communities worldwide for the
last decade. Her books include Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain (co-
edited with Lila Abu-Lughod and Brian Larkin).

Rosalind I. J. Hackett is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at the Uni-
versity of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she teaches Religious Studies and An-
thropology. She has published widely on new religious movements in Africa, as
well as on religious pluralism, art, gender, the media, religion and human rights,
and religious con®ict in Nigeria. Her books include Religious Persecution as a
U.S. Policy Issue (co-edited with Marc Silk and Dennis Hoover). She is President
of the International Association for the History of Religion (2005–2010).