Richard Davidson is a professor of psychology and psychiatry and director of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has studied the brain activity of meditators and since 1992 has collaborated with the Dalai Lama and Buddhist monks to study the effect of meditation on mental activity.

Rabbi Steven Kushner has chaired the kashrut (Jewish dietary laws) task force for the Central Conference of American Rabbis. He is the rabbi at Temple Ner Tamid in Bloomfield, N.J.

Imam Yahya Hendi is the Muslim chaplain at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He also just concluded his 15 years of service as a Chaplain at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. He can be contacted through his website.

Rabbi Simkha Weintraub is a social worker and director of the National Center for Jewish Healing in New York, N.Y. He co-edited a publication by the center titled Guide Me Along the Way: A Jewish Spiritual Companion for Surgery. He is also the editor of Healing of Soul, Healing of Body: Spiritual Leaders Unfold the Strength and Solace in […]

The Rev. John Lundin is a Protestant minister. He has studied Buddhist practice in depth and is interested in using it to help others deepen their own religious practice, whether Christian, Jewish or Buddhist. He is co-author of The New Mandala: Eastern Wisdom for Western Living — a book on Buddhism for Christians — with the Dalai Lama.

Read a Dec. 29, 2006, article in the Jewish Forward about drumming in Jewish congregations.

Read a story by Joan Huyser-Honig about one Lutheran congregation’s decision to use African drums in worship. The article is posted by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship.

Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ferndale, Mich., uses African drums in worship and holds classes to teach worshippers how to use them.

The Temple of Universal Judaism, Congregation Daat Elohim in New York, N.Y., uses drums in worship.