Russell T. McCutcheon is Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. His most recent books include The Sacred is the Profane: The Political Nature of Religion co-authored with William Arnal (Oxford University Press, 2013), Entanglements: Marking Place in the Field of Religion (Equinox, 2014) and the edited collection Fabricating Origins (Equinox, 2015).