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Irene Becci, Ph.D. (1973), University of Lausanne, is Assistant Professor of New Spiritualities at the Institute for the Social Scientific Study of Contemporary Religion. She has published Imprisoned Religion (Ashgate, 2012) and numerous articles on religion in post-socialist Germany, Italy and in Switzerland. Marian Burchardt, Ph.D. (1975) is research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen. His work on religious dynamics in Africa and Europe appeared in Sociology of Religion, Comparative Sociology, Oxford Development Studies, and in the Journal of Religion in Europe. José Casanova Ph.D. (1951) is a professor at the Department of Sociology at Georgetown University, and heads the Berkley Center's Program on Globalization, Religion and the Secular. He has published works in a broad range of subjects, including religion and globalization, migration and religious pluralism, transnational religions, and sociological theory. His best-known work, Public Religions in the Modern World (1994), has become a modern classic in the field. Contributors include: Irene Becci, Synnøve Bendixsen, Marian Burchardt, José Casanova, Murat Es, Ajay Gandhi, Weishang Huang, Godwin Onuoha, Samadia Sadouni, Peter van der Veer, and Leilah Vevaina.