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NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS / NOTAS SOBRE LOS AUTORES (in order of appearance/en orden de aparición)

 Virginia Garrard-Burnett received her Ph.D in History from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana and is professor of History and Religious Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, in the United States. She has published more than two dozen articles and several books on religion in Latin America and on Central American history. Her most recent book is Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit: Guatemala under General Efraín Ríos Montt, 1982-1983 (Oxford, 2010).

 Jakob Egeris Thorsen studied Theology and Social Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen (1999- 2007). From 2009-2012 he held a Ph.D.-scholarship at the former Faculty of Theology at Aarhus University. In June 2012 he defended his Ph.D.-dissertation Charismatic Practice and Catholic Parish Life: A Qualitative and Theological Study of the Incipient Pentecostalization of the Church in Guatemala. He is currently employed as a teaching assistant at the section for Theology, Department for Culture and Society, Aarhus University.

 Martin Lindhardt holds a Ph.D. in social anthropology (University of Aarhus, Denmark, 2004) and is currently employed at the Institute of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen. He has published several articles on Pentecostalism and Charismatic Christianity in Chile and Tanzania. He is the author of the book Power in Powerlessness: A Study of Pentecostal Life Worlds in Urban Chile (Brill 2012) and the editor of the book Practicing the Faith: The Ritual Life of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christians (Berghahn 2011).

 Hans Geir Aasmundsen is a Ph.D. student at Sødertörn Högskola, Sweden. His doctoral thesis is entitled: Argentine Pentecostals’ relation(s) to Argentine society from the re-democratization in 1983 until 2010. Aasmundsen currently leads a cross-disciplinary working group on 4 Notes on Contributors /Notas sobre los autores

Religion and Poverty at the University of Bergen-Global and the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) in Bergen, Norway. The project of the working group deals with how poverty is interpreted, mythologized, ritualized, and whether and how religiously based actors are addressing topics like poverty and social injustice in the political sphere. The research project contains a comparative dimension by including different religions in various regions of Latin America and Africa. Aasmundsen’s research interests include globalization, social theory, religious encounters and religion and politics.

 Maren Christensen Bjune is a PhD student at the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen (Norway). She holds an MSc from the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University in London, where she started her work on democratisation in Guatemala. Her current work is focused on the role of Evangelical religion in the political processes and the balance of power in post-war Guatemala. Further, she addresses processes such as inclusiveness, trust and socio-political challenges faced by pluricultural initiatives and reforms.

 Rickard Lalander is a social scientist, Associate Professor and PhD in Latin American studies, University of Helsinki. Since the 1990s he has worked as a researcher and teacher at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Stockholm University. Lalander is associate researcher of the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, and has collaborated with a number of Latin American universities, such as the Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo, Universidad Central de Venezuela and Universidad Simón Bolívar, both in Caracas. He has published extensively on democracy and social movements in the Andean countries and has authored the books Suicide of the Elephants? Venezuelan Decentralization between Partyarchy and Chavismo (2004) and Retorno de los Runakuna. Cotacachi y Otavalo (2010) as well as editored and co-authored the book Venezuelan Politics and Society in Times of Chavismo (2006). He has published a large number of book chapters and articles in, for instance, Bulletin of Latin American Research; Problèmes d´Amérique Latine; Revista de Ciencia Política; Politeia and Ecuador Debate.

 Einar Berntzen is Associate Professor at the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, Norway. His research interests include: democracy and democratization, political party system transformation, presidential interruptions, the relationship between religion and politics in Latin America, and the study of European political systems. He is the author of numerous book chapters and articles on Latin American and European politics, e.g.: “Reducing the perils of presidentialism in Latin America through presidential interruptions” (with Leiv Marsteintredet), Comparative Politics, 2008, and “Peru and the Fujimori Presidential Breakdown in 2000: Continuismo Gone Bad”, in Mariana Llanos and Leiv Marsteintredet (eds) Presidential Breakdowns in Latin America. Notes on Contributors /Notas sobre los autores 5

Causes and Outcomes of Executive Instability in Developing Democracies (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). He is co-author and co-editor of the book Politikk i Europa: Partier, Regjeringsmakt, Styreform (Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2008).

Another’s Articles / Otros artículos

 Philippe Dautrey tiene un doctorado en Estudios Ibero-americanos de la Universidad de Paris-X, y ejerce actualmente como profesor-investigador en Centro de Investigación y Docencia en Humanidades del Estado de Morelos (CIDHEM) (México)/Universidad de Brest (Francia). Sus principales áreas de investigación son la sociedad de conocimiento, modelos de desarrollo, y las relaciones entre España, México y América Latina. Entre sus últimas publicaciones destaca el artículo “Nuevos actores y viejas problemáticas en América Latina: Sobre el re-arraigo de la economía en Argentina, Bolivia y Venezuela” (Revista de Investigaciones Políticas y Sociológicas).

 Lomarsh Roopnarine is Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History at Jackson State University, MS. Dr. Roopnarine has published more than three dozen articles in peer- reviewed reputable regional and international journals in the fields of Caribbean Indian indenture, migration and ethnic identity. Currently, he is writing an article on Indian leadership during Caribbean indenture. Roopnarine is the author of the book Indo- Caribbean Indenture: Resistance and Accommodation, Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2007.