08-04-2014, 04:03 PM
Acknowledgements
My study of charismatic phenomenon has benefited from the advice and help of many people in many disciplines. Because of the cross-disciplinary nature of this book, I've painted in broad strokes what my specialist colleagues would have drawn in a far more nuanced manner. I hope they will forgive me for the simplifications that result, and accept my thanks for their help. Those who have been most influential include: my friend and advisor during my graduate work at Columbia, Abraham Rosman, who always encouraged my interests; Richard Christie, for whom I first wrote about charisma; Richard Castillo, who advised me on altered states of consciousness; Patrice Birenberg and Lewis Wurgaft, who helped me think about some of the material on psychology. Peter Dougherty, my original editor at Blackwells, encouraged me to write this manuscript, and provided me with good advice throughout. My research assistants at Harvard, Laurie Hart-McGrath and Krzysztof Kowalski were of immeasurable help, especially in my research on cults, Blythe Horman was a superb fact-checker and bibliographer, while in the earlier stages of the book John Borneman and Nikhil Singh did considerable work on collecting Nazi material. I am grateful to them all not only for their efforts, but for their ideas; and to the Clark and Milton funds for their support of my research. I am very grateful as well to John A. Hall, who generously read an earlier draft and gave me valuable and exhaustive critique, which was extremely useful in cutting and reworking the material. I would like to give special thanks to my colleagues and the students of my two departments at Harvard, Anthropology and Social Studies, where I have met with the sort of encouragement and intellectual stimulation that makes academic life worthwhile. Finally, I want to thank my wife Cherry Lindholm, who argued with me, encouraged me, pressed me to write more clearly and logically, helped to find a way to shape and trim my ungainly original manuscript, and worked with me to edit the final page proofs. Without her this book would never have been finished.
Rep+ DO Appreciated
Regards,
Glaizen Gold
