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I am deeply fortunate to have had professional and emotional support throughout this project. First and foremost, I must thank the athletes and coaches who opened their lives to me during my two years of fieldwork and after. Without your honesty and willingness to embrace an outsider/scholar, this book would never have been possible. In particular, I would like to thank Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) and Athletes in Action (AIA) for unfettered access to their archives; the director of the FCA summer camp in Forest Grove, Oregon, for facilitating my week of fieldwork (and the volleyball players there who treated me as part of their small group); the coordinator of AIA’s fall 2008 women’s basketball tour for integrating me with the team; and the leadership of the Charlotte Lady Eagles for their willingness to have a predoctoral anthropologist present for a season. I am truly grateful for the experiences I shared with the evangelical women in this book. Anthropologists often claim that fieldwork isn’t fieldwork unless it changes you, and I know that I came out of this experience with more compassion, more understanding, and more empathy for conservative Christians than I previously thought possible. I hope that the many women and men who shared their athletic and religious lives with me can see themselves in this book.
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