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    Acknowledgments

    T
    his book was written on a shoestring-budget advance against royalties
    from Temple University Press. Contrary to my experience with my first
    book, Chanting Down Babylon, my travel, research, and resource mate-
    rials for this project were not substantially covered by funding agencies and
    institutions. As a result, the book was in development for more than nine years,
    during which time I became indebted to many people, especially friends and
    students at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW), who
    encouraged and helped me along the way.
    Two of my friends—Ann Burgh, of Wilmington, North Carolina, and Pro-
    fessor William David Spencer, of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary—
    Copyright © 2009. Temple University Press. All rights reserved.

    read chapters of the manuscript’s early drafts and offered invaluable sugges-
    tions for clarification. I am grateful to UNCW for offering me a one-semester
    research reassignment to bring the final phase of the manuscript to comple-
    tion. I am indebted to my cartographer, Shane Baptista, at the Center for Teach-
    ing Excellence (UNCW) for designing the book’s map images. I am also much
    obliged to artist Kelly Hawes, of Wilmington, who drew all of the non-map
    illustrations for the book.
    Some students who assisted me in the early phase of the project disap-
    peared from my computer database before I could secure their names in new
    computer files. I am greatly indebted to William Freedman and Keith Wise, of
    Wilmington; Charles Frame, of Washington, North Carolina; and Rebecca
    Hein, of Cedena Cove, Orlando, Florida, for their support when I reached the
    midpoint of the project. My research and resource assistants, Christopher
    Ripley, Brittany N. Andrews, and Renee Lynn Farrar, and Renee’s husband,
    Gary Allen Farrar, were my lifeline in the final phase of the research. They
    worked with me during long evening hours and on weekends to help me meet
    manuscript deadlines. Renee read, edited, and corrected all sixteen chapters of

    Murrell, Nathaniel Samuel. <i>Afro-Caribbean Religions : An Introduction to Their Historical, Cultural, and Sacred
    Traditions</i>, Temple University Press, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/claremont/detail.action?docID=449828.
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    Acknowledgments • viii

    the book in a mere four days. Gary, Chris, and Brittany provided a wide range
    of technical research and technology support.
    My wife, musician Joy Murrell, assisted me with the ethnographic research
    on Cuban Santeria and Jamaican cultural traditions. I am grateful for her un-
    derstanding and for that of Ethan and Lanielle, especially when my writing
    continued late into the night and kept me away from their soccer and basketball
    games.
    Special thanks go to the participants in the “blind review” process, who
    read the manuscript with a most helpful critical eye. Both an unidentified re-
    viewer and Professor Terry Rey offered sentient and perceptive critiques, which
    greatly enhanced the quality of the book.
    Copyright © 2009. Temple University Press. All rights reserved.

    Murrell, Nathaniel Samuel. <i>Afro-Caribbean Religions : An Introduction to Their Historical, Cultural, and Sacred
    Traditions</i>, Temple University Press, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/claremont/detail.action?docID=449828.
    Created from claremont on 2019-07-01 11:07:51.

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