Michael Edwards is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Sydney. An anthropologist of religious life, media ecology, and political change, he received his PhD from the London School of Economics and was a Smuts Research Fellow in South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge. His work has been published in American Anthropologist, the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. His first book, Myanmar and the Dissonance of Salvation, has been selected for the Atelier series at the University of California Press.