Description:Dr. David Lehmann is a sociologist and reader in Social Sciences at the University of Cambridge, where he also has served as Director of the Latin American Center. He received his DPhil from New College, Oxford. He has served as Managing Editor of the Journal of Development Studies and the European Journal of Development Research. Among his book publications are: Democracy and Development in Latin America: Economics, Politics and Religion in the Postwar Period, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1990; Struggle for the Spirit: Religious Transformation and Popular Culture in Brazil and Latin America, Oxford, Polity Press, 1996; (with Batia Siebzehner) Remaking Israeli Judaism: The Challenge of Shas, New York OUP, 2006; and (edited with Humeira Iqtidar) Fundamentalist and Charismatic Movements, (Four volumes) London, Routledge, 2011. In the past four years he has conducted a research project on the spread of multicultural ideas and affirmative action policies in Mexico, Peru and Brazil.