Jon Bialecki is a continuing lecturer in anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, and has previously taught at Reed College and the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of A Diagram for Fire: Miracles and Variation in an American Charismatic Movement (University of California Press, 2017) and Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism, and Worlds without End (forthcoming from Fordham University Press). His academic interests include the anthropology of religion, anthropology of Christianity, anthropology of the subject, ontology and temporality, religious language ideology, and religious transhumanist movements.