Notes on Contributors

Nathaniel F. Barrett is a research fellow at the Institute of Culture and Society, University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain). His current research focuses on the nature and evolution of affect, motivation, and enjoyment.

Jessica A. Boon Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializes in late medieval and early modern Christian culture, particularly Iberian spirituality and mysticism 1450-1550. Her first monograph is The Mystical Science of the Soul: Medieval Cognition in Bernardino de Laredo's Recollection Mysticism (University of Toronto Press, 2012). She publishes on Spanish mysticism, the history of science and spirituality, Passion devotion, Mariology, and theories of gender, pain, affect, materiality, and embodiment.

Thomas S. Bremer Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Rhodes College, is a historian of religions in the Americas. Much of his published work has focused on religion and tourism. His most recent book is Formed from This Soil: An Introduction to the Diverse History of Religion in America (Wiley, 2014).

Heidi A. Campbell is Professor of Communication and affiliate faculty in Religious Studies at Texas A&M University. She is director of the Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies and author of over 90 articles and books on new media, religion, and digital culture including When Religion Meets New Media (Routledge 2010), Digital Religion (Routledge 2013) and Networked Theology (Baker Academic 2016).

David Carrasco is a Mexican-American historian of religions who explores the question 'Where is your sacred place' in his research and writing on Mesoamerican cultures and the Mexican-American borderlands. His studies with Mircea Eliade, Charles Long, and Paul Wheatley led him to study the rise of primary urban generation in Mesoamerica and the role of ceremonial centres in the Aztec empire and their transformations during the Gran Encuentro with Spanish imperialism between 1517 and 1810. He is the director of the Moses Mesoamerican Archive at Harvard University and the recipient of the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle.

Simon Coleman is Chancellor Jackman Professor at the University of Toronto, and co-editor of the journal Religion and Society: Advances in Research. His research interests include Pentecostalism, pilgrimage, cathedrals, urban religion, and religious infrastructures, and he has carried out fieldwork in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Nigeria. Recent books include The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism (2015, NYU Press, co-edited with Rosalind Hackett) and Pilgrimage and Political Economy (2018, Berghahn, co-edited with John Eade).

Louise Connelly is a Senior E-Learning Developer at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include social media, virtual worlds, and Buddhist communities and identity online. Her publications include 'Virtual Buddhism: Buddhist Ritual in Second Life' in Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds, H. Campbell (ed.) (Routledge, 2013) and 'Virtual Buddhism: Online Communities, Sacred Places and Objects' in The Changing World Religion Map, S. Brunn (ed.) (Springer, 2015).

John Eade is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Roehampton, Visiting Professor at Toronto University and a member of the Migration Research Unit, UCL. His research interests focus on urban ethnicity, identity politics, global migration and pilgrimage. Relevant publications include the co-edited volumes Contesting the Sacred (1991), Reframing Pilgrimage (2004), International Perspectives on Pilgrimage Studies (2015), and New Pathways in Pilgrimage Studies (2017).

Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger is Professor of Religion in the Department of Religion at Emory University. Her theoretical interests include performance, vernacular religion, and gender. She received a John Simon Guggenheim and Summer National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships in 2014-2015 to support research and writing for her book Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds (in press, SUNY Press). Her publications include: an introductory textbook, Everyday Hinduism (2015); When the World Becomes Female: Possibilities of a South Indian Goddess (2013); In Amma's Healing Room: Gender and Vernacular Islam in South India (2006); Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India (1996); and two edited volumes, Oral Epics in India (1989) and Boundaries of the Text: Epic Performances in South and Southeast Asia (1991).

Banu Gökarıksel is Associate Professor of Geography and Global Studies and the Royster Distinguished Professor at the Graduate School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She served as the co-editor of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014-2018) and is the recipient of the 2018 American Association of Geographers Enhancing Diversity Award and the 2017 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapman Family Teaching Award. Her research analyses the politics of everyday life and questions of religion, secularism, and gender with a focus on bodies and urban space.

Rosalind I.J. Hackett is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee. In fall 2018, she was the Gerardus van der Leeuw Fellow, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen. Her recent (co-edited) books are Displacing the State: Religion and Conflict in Neoliberal Africa (2012), New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa (2015), and The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism (2015). She is an Honorary Life Member of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR).

Knut A. Jacobsen is Professor of the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen, Norway and author and editor of many books and numerous articles in journals and edited volumes on Sa?khya and Yoga, and on various aspects on religions of South Asia and in the South Asian diasporas. He is the author of Prak?ti in Sa?khya-Yoga: Material Principle: Religious Experience, Ethical Implications (Peter Lang, 1999), Kapila: Founder of Sa?khya and Avatara of Vi??u (Munshiram Manoharlal, 2008), Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition: Salvific Space (Routledge, 2013), and Yoga in Modern Hinduism: Hariharananda Ara?ya and Sa?khyayoga (Routledge, 2018) and editor of Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India (Routledge, 2016). Jacobsen is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the six volumes Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism (Brill, 2009-2015) and the Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism Online.

Greg Johnson is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Johnson's research focuses upon the intersection of Indigenous traditions and law in American Indian and Native Hawaiian contexts. Recent publications include Sacred Claims: Repatriation and Living Tradition (University of Virginia Press 2007), Handbook of Indigenous Religion(s) (Brill 2017), edited with Siv Ellen Kraft, and Irreverence and the Sacred: Critical Studies in the History of Religions (Oxford 2018), edited with Hugh B. Urban.

Paul Christopher Johnson is Professor of History and of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, and Co-Editor of the journal, Comparative Studies in Society and History. He wrote Secrets, Gossip, and Gods: The Transformation of Brazilian Candomblé (Oxford 2002), Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa (California 2007), and Ekklesia: Three Inquiries on Church and State (Chicago 2018), with Winnifred F. Sullivan and Pamela E. Klassen, and edited Spirited Things: The Work of 'Possession' in Afro-Atlantic Religions (Chicago 2014). He is completing a new book, Automatic Religion: Nearhuman Agents of Brazil and France.

Sylvester A. Johnson is Associate Professor of African American Studies and Religious Studies at Northwestern University. He researches religion, race, empire, and sexuality in the Atlantic world and the relationship between humans and intelligent machines. He recently authored African American Religions, 1500-2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom (Cambridge University Press 2015).

Harshita Mruthinti Kamath is Visweswara Rao and Sita Koppaka Assistant Professor in Telugu Culture, Literature and History at Emory University. Her research focuses on the textual and performance traditions of Telugu-speaking South India in conversation with theoretical discourses on gender and sexuality in South Asia. She is the author of Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance (2019). She has also co-translated the sixteenth-century classical Telugu text Parijatapaharanamu (Theft of a Tree) with Velcheru Narayana Rao, which will be published as part of the Murty Classical Library of India (Harvard University Press).

Gwynn Kessler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Swarthmore College. She is the author of Conceiving Israel: The...