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Contributors


Talal Asadwas born in Saudi Arabia and educated in Britain. He now
teaches anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of
New York. His most recent book is entitledFormations of the Secular:
Christianity, Islam, Modernity(2003).


Pope Benedict XVIis the 265th and reigning Pope, the head of the
Roman Catholic Church, and the sovereign of Vatican City State. For-
merly Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, he served as a professor at various
German universities and at the time of his election was Dean of the
College of Cardinals. The most recent of his books to have appeared in
English areValues in a Time of Upheaval,Pilgrim Fellowship of Faith:
The Church as Communion,The End of Time? The Provocation of Talking
about God(all 2005), andTruth and Tolerance: Christian Belief and
World Religions(2004).


Jane Bennettis Professor of Political Science at The Johns Hopkins
University and a founding member of the journaltheory & event. She is
the author ofThe Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings,
and Ethics(2001),Thoreau’s Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild(1994;
2d ed. 2002), andUnthinking Faith and Enlightenment: Nature and the
State in a Post-Hegelian Era(1987). She is currently working on a book
that explores the ecological implications of different conceptions of ma-
teriality in contemporary political thought.


Wendy Brownis Professor of Political Science at the University of Cali-
fornia, Berkeley. Her books includeRegulating Aversion: A Critique of
Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire(2006),Edgework: Essays on
Knowledge and Politics(2005),Politics out of History(2001), andStates
of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity(1995).


Judith Butleris the Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Compara-
tive Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent


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