Pamela E. Klassen is a Professor in the Department & Centre for the Study of Religion and past Director of the Religion in the Public Sphere Initiative at the University of Toronto. Her publications include Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, Healing and Liberal Christianity (winner of the 2012 American Academy of Religion Award of Excellence for Analytical-Descriptive Studies; University of California Press, 2011) and After Pluralism (co-edited with Courtney Bender, Columbia University Press, 2010). Her current book project, Spiritual Invention of a Nation: Mediums and Missionaries on Indian Land, focuses on the intersection of Christianity, First Nations, colonialism, and the (social) sciences in the making of Canada, considering exchanges between Protestant and Indigenous practices of storytelling and confession, paying particular attention to differences in mediation—photography, printing presses, maps, and radio.
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Tisa Wenger is Assistant Professor of American Religious History at Yale Divinity School. Her research and teaching interests include the history of Christianity in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States (especially the American West), the cultural history of the categories of religion and secularism, the politics of religious freedom, and the intersections of race and religion in American history. Her book We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom (University of North Carolina Press 2009) shows how dominant conceptions of religion and religious freedom affected the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico as they sought to protect their religious ceremonies from government suppression, and how that struggle helped reshape mainstream views of religion and the politics of Indian affairs. She is now writing a history of religious freedom as an American ideal, tracing its multiple and shifting deployments throughout U.S. history.
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