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T he production of a volume such as this one – involving the contributions of more than 40 scholars – depends on many individuals’ hard work, good will, and attention to detail. My chief debt of gratitude, of course, goes to the contributors themselves, who showed both careful attention to deadlines and welcome patience with the inevitable delays that a project of such magnitude inevitably brings with it. Some of these contributors, the reader will note, are eminent scholars in their fields, while others are newly minted PhDs or in the relatively early stages in their careers. But all have borne with the bumps in the proverbial road with good cheer. At Wiley-Blackwell, the Companion to Religion and Violence has been unfailingly supported from its inception by Rebecca Harkin, who commissioned the volume and kept careful tabs on it as it made its way through the publishing pipeline. (Our annual meetings at the American Academy of Religion conference helped to keep the book on schedule and to assure me that there was indeed light at the end of a long, religiously violent tunnel!) At various points, a number of other folks at Blackwell – Isobel Bainton, Lucy Boon, Sally Cooper, Bridget Jennings, and Sue Leigh – helped move a very large manuscript forward in a very short time. This combination of swift progress and careful attention to detail was helped too by the careful copyediting ... log in or subscribe to read full text