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Brent Plate's research explores the materiality and sensuality of religious traditions. He is a writer, editor, public speaker, and associate professor of religious studies by special appointment at Hamilton College. He has authored or edited fourteen books, and his writing has appeared in Newsweek.com, Salon.com, The Washington Post, The Christian Century, The Islamic Monthly, America, Los Angeles Review of Books, Religion Dispatches, and elsewhere. He is co-founder and managing editor of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief, and president of CrossCurrents/ The Association of Religion and Intellectual Life. Recent books include A History of Religion in 5½ Objects: Bringing the Spiritual to its Senses; Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World; and the co-edited Religion in Museums. More information available at www.sbrentplate.net, or twitter: @splate1