he is currently working on a book that will compare Mircea Eliade and
Jonathan Z. Smith.
Sylvia MARCOSis a research associate in Religion and Society with the Escuela
Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH) in México and Visiting
Professor of Mesoamerican Religions and Gender in the School of Religion
at Claremont Graduate University. She is the author, most recently, of Taken
from the Lips: Gender and Eros in Mesoamerican Religions(2006).
Anatilde IDOYAGAMOLINAis Chair of the Centro Argentino de Etnología
Americana (CAEA), a research unit of the Consejo Nacional de Inves-
tigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) and a Principal Investigator
of CONICET’s Carrera del Investigador Científico. She is Full Professor at
the Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte and the Universidad de Buenos
Aires and director of IUNA and CAEA’s Maestría y Doctorado en Cultura
y Sociedad Program. Her publications include Shamanismo, brujería y poder
en América Latina(2000).
Paulo Barrera RIVERAis Professor of Social Sciences and Religion in the
Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências da Religião at the Universidade Metodista
de São Paulo. He is the author of Tradição, transmissão e emoção religiosa:
sociologia do protestantismo contemporâneo na América Latina(2001).
Rowena ROBINSONis Professor of Sociology at IIT (Indian Institute of Tech-
nology) Bombay. She is author of Christians of India(Sage, 2003) and
Tremors of Violence (Sage, 2005), and editor, with Sathianathan Clarke,
of Religious Conversion in India: Modes, Motivations and Meanings
(Oxford University Press, 2003) and Sociology of Religion in India(Sage,
2004).
Vineeta SINHAis Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at
the National University of Singapore. Her research interests include the
critique of concepts and categories in the social sciences, the history of the
social sciences, teaching of sociological theory, sociology and anthropology
of religion, the Hindu Diaspora and the political economy of health care in
medically plural societies. Her recent publications include A New God in
the Diaspora? Muneeswaran Worship in Contemporary Singapore(2005).
Michael STAUSBERGis Professor of the Study of Religion at the University of
Bergen. His publications include Faszination Zarathushtra(2 vols, 1998)
and Die Religion Zarathushtras(3 vols, 2002–2004). He is the editor of
Zoroastrian Rituals in Context(2004) and co-editor of Theorizing Rituals
(2 vols, 2006–2007). He is presently preparing a study of the contemporary
Zoroastrian priesthood. Other research areas include theories of religion
and the relevance of tourism for the contemporary religious landscape.
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