This guide, part of a new series from ReligionLink focusing on different regions in global religion reporting, provides background, resources, relevant stories and sources to help journalists understand East Asia’s religious institutions, communities, histories and political contexts.

Barbara R. Ambros is a professor in East Asian Religions in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research on Japanese Religions has focused on gender studies, human-animal relationships and place.

Benedetta Lomi is a professor of religion at Bristol University, who focuses on Japanese Buddhism, its material, and visual culture, with particular emphasis on the performative, healing and transformative dimensions of Buddhist rituals, scriptures and objects.

Ian Reader is a scholar of contemporary Japanese religion at Lancaster University whose work includes pilgrimage, Japanese Buddhism, new religious movements and religious practice in Asia.

This ReligionLink guide offers background, relevant newswriting, expert sources and related content for you to explore the varieties of religious futurism.

Michael David Lukas is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University and a novelist engaging Jewish historical and speculative fiction.

Adam Mansbach is an American novelist and screenwriter who uses humor and folklore to explore Jewish identity, history and speculative futures.

Jenny L. Davis is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and a Professor of American Indian Studies and Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests sit at the intersections of Indigenous language futurism (including language reclamation & revitalization), Queer Indigenous Studies and speculative fiction and poetry.

Chelsea Vowel is a Métis writer, educator and scholar of Métis futurisms. Vowel is co-host of the Metis in Space podcast. For media inquiries, Vowel is represented by Rob Firing at the Transatlantic Agency.