Frank J. Lechner is an associate professor of sociology at Emory University in Atlanta. He contributed the essay “Fundamentalism” to the 1998 edition of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Society.

Leslie Griffin is the William S. Boyd Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law. Griffin, who teaches constitutional law, is known for her interdisciplinary work in law and religion. She has written on the role of fundamentalist religion in the modern world, including an article in […]

Martin Riesebrodt is a sociology professor at the University of Chicago. He has written on fundamentalism in the United States and Iran.

Santosh C. Saha is a history professor at Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio. He has written on the rise of fundamentalism, particularly in the developing world.

William O. Beeman is chairman of the anthropology department at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and author of many articles on fundamentalism.

Peter C. Hill is a psychology professor at the Rosemead School of Psychology at Biola University in La Mirada, Calif. He contributed to the 2005 edition of The Psychology of Religious Fundamentalism. He specializes in the psychology of religion and has done research on individuals’ right to choose whether to forgive, restorative justice and the role of apology.

David Domke is an associate professor of communication at the University of Washington in Seattle. He writes and teaches widely on religious radicals, fundamentalism and politics. With co-author Kevin Coe he is writing a book, The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon (Oxford University Press, 2008).

The National Association of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd is a Christian organization that focuses on the religious formation of children using the Bible, liturgy and the educational principles of Maria Montessori. It’s based in Oak Park, Ill.

Annette Mahoney is a psychology professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She is co-director of the university’s Spirituality and Psychology Research Team and conducts research on the role, both positive and negative, that religion plays in families and in the transition that couples make to becoming parents.