Contributors^309Buddhist anarchism, both as an explicit product of Buddhist mo-
dernity and as a theoretical and retrospective exploration of lib-
ertarian themes in the history of Buddhist traditions. Enrique has
published a monograph on modern Indian fiction and its connec-
tions to the pre-modern and pre-colonial, along with many jour-
nal articles and book chapters on postcolonial nation building
and the use of religious narratives to legitimate or resist the state.
Some of his recent projects involve studying the performative na-
ture of sovereignty within the Syrian war and the transnational
history of anti-colonial anarchism in the Canary Islands.
Franziska Hoppen’s research interests lie at the intersection of pol-
itics and religion. The working title of her PhD thesis is “Critiques
of modern Western politics from the perspective of twentieth
century mystical philosophy.” It examines and compares cri-
tiques by mystical philosophers Eric Voegelin, Gustav Landauer,
Simone Weil, and Vaclav Havel, as well as their normative visions
for community. Franziska began her doctoral studies in political
thought, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, at
the University of Kent in 2012.
Ruy Llera Blanes, anthropologist, is currently Ramon y Cajal
Fellow at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (CSIC), in Spain. His
current research site is Angola, where he has been conducting
research on religion, mobility (diasporas, transnationalism, the
Atlantic), politics (leadership, charisma, repression, resistance,
utopia), and temporalities (historicity, memory, heritage, ex-
pectations). He is co-editor of the journal Religion and Society:
Advances in Research, published by Berghahn. His recent pub-
lications include A Prophetic Trajectory: Ideologies of Time and
Space in an Angolan Religious Movement (Berghahn, 2014), and
The Social Life of Spirits (Chicago UP, 2013)., co-edited with
Diana Espírito Santo.
Justin Meggitt is Senior Lecturer in the Critical Study of Religion
at the University of Cambridge and Visiting Researcher at the
Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender
studies at Stockholm University. He has published widely on the