Host-microbe interactions are often portrayed as a game of molecular hide-and-seek or tug-of-war where one partner seeks to establish an upper-hand over the other. Perhaps a more useful analogy is the traditional call-and-response preaching method used so effectively in churches of the southern USA to encourage participation by the assembled parishioners. The preacher calls out a line of a gosp...

The article is concerned with the latest developments in Indonesia's Islamic field. Its focus is on the role of social media in exchange relationships between Islamic preachers and their constituency. The article first discusses economic exchanges between preachers and their followers, and then it concentrates on social exchanges and how they are mediated today. Empirically, the article deliver...