Introducing Religion:
Essays in Honor of Jonathan Z. Smith

W. Braun and R. McCutcheon (eds.)
(Equinox Publishers, 2007)

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Presentation

Although the volume was not quite ready at the time, a bound mock-up was couriered by Equinox Publishers to San Diego in time to present it as part of an unrehearsed moment at the conclusion of the AAR's November 19, 2007, session on Smith's book, To Take Place: Toward Theory in Ritual.

Willi Braun (right), co-editor of the Festschrift, presents the first copy to Jonathan Z. Smith.
Braun was a longtime editor of Method & Theory in the Study of Religion and Smith was NAASR's President from 1996 until 2002.

NAASR member, Burton Mack (left): a participant on the To Take Place panel and the person who first put the bug into Braun's and McCutcheon's ears about tackling a volume in Smith's honor.

Thanks to Pieter Craffert for taking photographs

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