Hannah Gould is a cultural anthropologist in Australia interested in death, Buddhism and material culture in Australia and Northeast Asia. Gould’s research spans new traditions and technologies of Buddhist death rites, the life cycle of religious materials and modern lifestyle movements.

Alina Kokoschka is a researcher in Islamic studies, specializing in the aesthetics of Islamization, with a focus on the material worlds of Islam and Arabic script in the digital space. She also has interest in the relationship between people and things as well as criticism of representations of Islam and “Islamic art.”

Jessica Hughes is senior lecturer in classical studies at The Open University in the United Kingdom. Her research specialisms include votive offerings, classical reception and the changing religious landscape of Campania, Southern Italy.

Patricia Cecil is a specialist curator at the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri. Her work focuses on enhancing insight into the ways faith and religion shaped and were shaped by World War I and its aftermath. 

Paul Christopher Johnson is professor of history at the University of Michigan. He has written extensively on religious practices, diaspora religions and the practice of secrecy in the Americas, especially in Brazil and the Caribbean.

James S. Bielo is associate professor in the department of religious studies at Northwestern University. He specializes in the anthropological study of religion, Christianity, American religion and the study of material religion.

Rhona Trauvitch is an English professor at Florida International University. Trauvitch specializes in intersections of literature and science — those that manifest in science fiction, and those that enable fiction-science (or, “fi-sci”) pattern mapping.

Sheila Briggs is a theology professor at the University of Southern California and an expert on the Jewish Torah in the writings of Paul. Other projects include analysis of contemporary popular culture, such as how the AI genre intersects with religion in American popular culture, as well as Roman Catholicism, feminist theology and gender, race, […]

This Reporting Guide provides extensive background on Hindu nationalism, what it is, where it comes from, what advocacy organizations and human rights groups are saying about it and what the future might hold for Hindutva.