Armin W. Geertz is Professor of the History of Religions at the Department of the Study of Religion, University of Aarhus, Denmark, and is the General Secretary of the International Association for the History of Religions. He is on the editorial boards of a number of journals including Numen and Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. He is the author of numerous books and articles on indigenous religions, methodology in the study of religion, contemporary religiosity and the religion and mythology of the Hopi Indians in Arizona, where he has done fieldwork intermittently since 1978. His books include: Hopi Indian Altar Iconography (Brill, 1987), Children of Cottonwood. Piety and Ceremonialism in Hopi Indian Puppetry (Lincoln & University of Nebraska Press, 1987), Religion, Tradition, and Renewal(University of Aarhus Press, 1991), and The Invention of Prophecy: Continuity and Meaning in Hopi Indian Religion (University of California Press, 1992, 1994).Russell T. McCutcheon is Associate Professor of Modern Religious Thought at Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, USA. He is the author of Manufacturing Religion (Oxford University Press, 1997), Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion (State University of New York Press), and is the co-editor of both the Guide to the Study of Religion (Cassell, 2000) and Brill’s journal Method & Theory in the Study of Religion.

Armin W. Geertz is Professor of the History of Religions at the Department of the Study of Religion, University of Aarhus, Denmark, and is the General Secretary of the International Association for the History of Religions. He is on the editorial boards of a number of journals including Numen and Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. He is the author of numerous books and articles on indigenous religions, methodology in the study of religion, contemporary religiosity and the religion and mythology of the Hopi Indians in Arizona, where he has done fieldwork intermittently since 1978. His books include: Hopi Indian Altar Iconography (Brill, 1987), Children of Cottonwood. Piety and Ceremonialism in Hopi Indian Puppetry (Lincoln & University of Nebraska Press, 1987), Religion, Tradition, and Renewal(University of Aarhus Press, 1991), and The Invention of Prophecy: Continuity and Meaning in Hopi Indian Religion (University of California Press, 1992, 1994).Russell T. McCutcheon is Associate Professor of Modern Religious Thought at Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, USA. He is the author of Manufacturing Religion (Oxford University Press, 1997), Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion (State University of New York Press), and is the co-editor of both the Guide to the Study of Religion (Cassell, 2000) and Brill’s journal Method & Theory in the Study of Religion.

Armin W. Geertz is Professor of the History of Religions at the Department of the Study of Religion, University of Aarhus, Denmark, and is the General Secretary of the International Association for the History of Religions. He is on the editorial boards of a number of journals including Numen and Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. He is the author of numerous books and articles on indigenous religions, methodology in the study of religion, contemporary religiosity and the religion and mythology of the Hopi Indians in Arizona, where he has done fieldwork intermittently since 1978. His books include: Hopi Indian Altar Iconography (Brill, 1987), Children of Cottonwood. Piety and Ceremonialism in Hopi Indian Puppetry (Lincoln & University of Nebraska Press, 1987), Religion, Tradition, and Renewal(University of Aarhus Press, 1991), and The Invention of Prophecy: Continuity and Meaning in Hopi Indian Religion (University of California Press, 1992, 1994).Russell T. McCutcheon is Associate Professor of Modern Religious Thought at Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, USA. He is the author of Manufacturing Religion (Oxford University Press, 1997), Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion (State University of New York Press), and is the co-editor of both the Guide to the Study of Religion (Cassell, 2000) and Brill’s journal Method & Theory in the Study of Religion.