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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Th omas Blom Hansen is Senior Research Scientist at Yale University, Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Th e Saff ron Wave. Democracy and Hindu nationalism in Modern India (Princeton University Press, 1999), Wages of Violence. Naming and Identity in postcolonial Bombay (Princeton University Press, 2001), co-edited with Finn Stepputat: States of Imagination. Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State (Duke University Press, 2001) and Sovereign Bodies. Citizens, Migrants and states in the postcolonial world (Princeton University Press, 2005). He is currently fi nishing a book manuscript on the transformations of religious imaginings and everyday life aft er apartheid in a township in South Africa. Kari Elisabeth Børresen, born in Oslo 1932, is a Senior Professor (emer- ita) in the Department of Church History, University of Oslo. A pioneer in Th eological Gender Studies, she coined the terms ‘androcentrique / androcentrisme’ in her fi rst study of traditional Christian sexology; Subordination et Equivalence. Nature et rôle de la femme d’après Augustin et Th omas d’Aquin (Oslo, Paris 1968). Later translated into Italian, English and Spanish, an enlarged and updated edition was published as Subordination and Equivalence. A Reprint of a Pioneering Classic (Kampen: Kok Pharos, 1995). She also coined the terms ‘Matristics / Church Mothers’ to high- light the impact of medieval women theologians in the contruction of Christian God-language, cf., the standard term ‘Patristics’ used for the Graeco-Roman inculturation of ancient Church Fathers. Together with Kari Vogt, she presented Women’s Studies of the Christian and Islamic Traditions. Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Foremothers (Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer, 1993). Th e gradual inclusion of women in fully human Godlikeness (imago Dei), realised by the inculturated exegesis of biblical texts from antiq- uity to the 20th century, is clarifi ed in (ed.) Th e Image of God. Gender Models in Judaeo-Christian Tradition (Minneapolis MN: Fortress, 1995). Th e monotheistic paradigm of gender-specifi c right and duties for men and women, established by God in creation and therefore universally normative, is analysed in her (ed.) Christian and Islamic Gender Models 230 list of contributors in Formative Traditions (Rome: Herder, 2004). Th e ensuing confl ict between the premodern sexology of religious law and the modern secular principle of universal human rights in civil legislation is further explored in (eds. with Sara Cabibbo) Gender, Religion, Human Rights in Europe (Rome: Herder, 2006). Kari Elisabeth Børresen has been a Research Fellow of the Norwegian Research Council, Research Professor of the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Culture (1982–2000), Professor of Medieval Studies (1993–2000) and of Historical Th eology / Gender Studies at the University of Oslo (2000–2003). She has also been invited by leading universities in Europe and the USA. She has organised several international meetings and projects in Gender Studies of Religion and History. In 1992 she became Doctor Th eologia Honoris Causa at the University of Uppsala. Since 1995 she has been a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. A useful survey of her research is available in (eds. Ø. Norderval and K.L. Ore) From Patristics to Matristics. Selected Articles on Christian Gender Models by Kari Elisabeth Børresen (Rome: Herder, 2002). Karin Erdevig Gedge is Associate Professor of History at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Without Benefi t of Clergy: Women and the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth-Century America Culture (Oxford University Press, 2003). Her current project explores the relationship between theology and the curriculum and teaching methods in a variety of religious schools in southeastern Pennsylvania in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Claire Greslé-Favier recently completed her PhD in American Studies at the University of Dortmund (Germany) on the topic of the political relevance of sexual-abstinence-before-marriage education in the United States. This work will soon be published by the Dutch Publisher Rodopi under the title Raising Sexually Pure Kids. Sexual Abstinence, Conservative Christians and American Politics (Rodopi, forthcoming). She also wrote a number of articles on the same topic. Currently, she is involved in projects related to the sex education of young people worldwide with the World Health Organization and UNESCO. Saba Mahmood is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley. She is the author of Politics of Piety: Th e Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton University Press, 2005) and .