CONTRIBUTORSHindus and Muslims in India(1994), andGods on Earth(1988). He is currently engaged
in a comparative project on spirituality in India and China.
Hent de Vriesis Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at The Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of
Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas(2005),Religion
and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida(2002), andPhilosophy and
the Turn to Religion(1999). Among the volumes he has co-edited are, with Samuel Weber,
Religion and Media(2001) andViolence, Identity, and Self-Determination(1998).
Samuel Weberis Avalon Professor of Comparative Literature at Northwestern University
and Director of Northwestern’s Paris Program in Critical Theory. He is the author of
numerous books, most recentlyTargets of Opportunity: On the Militarization of Thinking
(2005) andTheatricality as Medium(2004). He is the co-editor, with Hent de Vries, of
Religion and Media(2001) andViolence, Identity, and Self-Determination(1998).
Marc de Wildeis Assistant Professor of Legal History at the University of Amsterdam.
He is currently completing a dissertation on political theology in the work of Walter
Benjamin and Carl Schmitt.
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