लेखक: Virginia Burnett

Virginia Burnett, PhD, is the Associate Chair of the History Department at the University of Texas, USA. She received her PhD in History from Tulane University and has been on the faculty at the University of Texas since 1990. She is author of Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit: Guatemala Under General Efraín Ríos Montt, 1982–1983 (Oxford, 2010); Viviendo en La Nueva Jerusalem (Guatemala: Editorial Piedra Santa, 2009), Protestantism in Guatemala: Living in the New Jerusalem (University of Texas Press, 1998). She has also edited On Earth as it is in Heaven: Religion and Society in Latin America (Scholarly Resources, 2000) and co-edited with David Stoll, Rethinking Protestantism in Latin America (Temple, 1993). Currently, she and Paul Freston are co-editing the Cambridge History of Religion in Latin America. Yetkin Yıldırım, PhD, is an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, and the Vice President and founding member of the Institute of Interfaith Dialog. He is the co-editor of The Ottoman Mosaic (Cune, 2010). His “Islamic Perspectives on Spirituality in Childhood and Adolescence, ” appeared as a chapter in Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World”s Religious Traditions.