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- I delivered a very early version of this paper on April 8, 2003, when I assumed the Arnold H. Lowe Chair in Religious Studies at Macalester College. I am grateful to my predecessor Calvin Roetzel, and to Mary Lee Dayton and her family for endowing the professorship.
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