Henry Goldschmidt is Assistant Professor of Religion and Society at Wesleyan University. His research has focused on Black-Jewish difference in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights. Elizabeth McAlister is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and in the programs in American Studies, African-American Studies, and Latin American Studies at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Rara!: Vodou, Power, andPerformance in Haiti and its Diaspora (2002).

makes these essays so provocative, timely and novel ... the essays in Iace, nation, and religion in the Americas have provided a welcome and challenging contribution to an ongoing and increasingly lively dicussion of religion in the modern world.