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Charles Hirschkind is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of
California, Berkeley. His work focuses on the intersections of religious practice,
rhetorical traditions, media technologies, and emergent forms of political com-
munity in the urban Middle East and North America. He has recently completed
a book on the forms of media-based discipline through which Egyptian Mus-
lims seek to cultivate ethical modes of sensory experience and appraisal.

David Lehmann is Reader in Social Science at Cambridge University. He is the
author of Democracy and Development in Latin America: Economics, Politics, and
Religion in the Post-war Period and Struggle for the Spirit: Religious Transforma-
tion and Popular Culture in Brazil and Latin America.

Birgit Meyer is Professor of Religion and Society at the Research Centre Reli-
gion and Society, Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam and
Professor of Anthropology at the Free University, Amsterdam. Her publications
include Translating the Devil: Religion and Modernity among the Ewe in Ghana;
Globalization and Identity: Dialectics of Flow and Closure (co-edited with Peter
Geschiere), and Magic and Modernity. Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment
(co-edited with Peter Pels).

Annelies Moors holds the ISIM chair at the University of Amsterdam and
directs the research program on cultural politics and Islam. She is author of
Women, Property, and Islam: Palestinian Experiences 1920–1990; co-editor of
Discourse and Palestine: Power, Text, and Context; and guest editor of a special
issue of Islamic Law and Society (2003) about public debates and family law
reform.

Ayxe Öncü is Professor of Sociology and the coordinator of the Cultural Studies
Program at Sabanci University, Istanbul. Her publications include the co-edited
volume Space, Culture, and Power: New Identities In Globalizing Cities. Her re-
search interests include city cultures, cultural politics, and comparative media
studies.

Dorothea E. Schulz is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Free Univer-
sity of Berlin. She is author of Perpetuating the Politics of Praise: Jeli Singers,
Radios, and the Politics of Tradition in Mali. Her interests include West Africa,
expressive culture and performance, popular culture, anthropology of media,
anthropology of religion, and gender studies.

Batia Siebzehner is Research Fellow and the head of the Latin American Unit
at the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at Hebrew Uni-
versity, Jerusalem, and Senior Lecturer at Beit Berl College, where she is also the
head of the Department of Informal Education. She is author of La universidad
americana y la ilustracion.

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