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EDITORS AND CONSULTANTS

EDITOR INCHIEF

LINDSAYJONES

Associate Professor, Department of

Comparative Studies, Ohio State

University

BOARDMEMBERS

DAVÍDCARRASCO

Neil Rudenstine Professor of Study of

Latin America, Divinity School and

Department of Anthropology, Harvard

University

GIOVANNICASADIO

Professor of History of Religions,

Dipartimento di Scienze

dell’Antichità, Università degli Studi

di Salerno

WENDYDONIGER

Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service

Professor of the History of Religions,

University of Chicago

GARYL. EBERSOLE

Professor of History and Religious

Studies, and Director, UMKC Center

for Religious Studies, University of

Missouri—Kansas City

JANETGYATSO

Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies,

The Divinity School, Harvard

University

CHARLESHALLISEY

Associate Professor, Department of

Languages and Cultures of Asia and

Program in Religious Studies,

University of Wisconsin—Madison

CHARLESH. LONG

Professor of History of Religions,

Emeritus, and Former Director of

Research Center for Black Studies,

University of California, Santa Barbara

MARYN. MACDONALD

Professor, History of Religions, Le

Moyne College (Syracuse, New York)

DALEB. MARTIN

Professor of Religious Studies, and

Chair, Department of Religious

Studies, Yale University

AZIMNANJI

Professor and Director, The Institute

of Ismaili Studies, London

JACOBOLUPONA

Professor, African American and

African Studies Program, University

of California, Davis

MICHAELSWARTZ

Professor of Hebrew and Religious

Studies, Ohio State University

INÉSTALAMANTEZ

Associate Professor, Religious Studies

Department, University of California,

Santa Barbara

CONSULTANTS

GREGORYD. ALLES

Associate Professor of Religious Studies,

McDaniel College

Study of Religion

SIGMAANKRAVA

Professor, Department of Literary and

Cultural Studies, Faculty of Modern

Languages, University of Latvia

Baltic Religion and Slavic Religion

DIANEAPOSTOLOS-CAPPADONA

Center for Muslim–Christian

Understanding and Liberal Studies

Program, Georgetown University

Art and Religion

DIANEBELL

Professor of Anthropology and Women’s

Studies, George Washington University

Australian Indigenous Religions

KEESW. BOLLE

Professor Emeritus of History,

University of California, Los Angeles,

and Fellow, Netherlands Institute for

Advanced Studies in the Humanities

and Social Sciences

History of Religions

MARKCSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Associate Professor in the Department

of East Asian Languages and

Literature and the Program in

Religious Studies, University of

Wisconsin—Madison

Chinese Religions

RICHARDA. GARDNER

Faculty of Comparative Culture,

Sophia University

Humor and Religion

JOHNA. GRIM

Professor of Religion, Bucknell

University and Co-Coordinator,

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