David S. Touretzky is a research professor in the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and a longtime Scientology critic. He maintains an extensive collection of Scientology-related websites on his home page. He has given many radio interviews and appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann (twice) and CNN Headline News with Glenn Beck to discuss Scientology.

Irene Lin is associate director of the Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies, Stanford University in Stanford, Calif.

Courtney Bender is a professor of religious studies at Columbia University and sociologist. She studies new religious movements, religious pluralism and is currently writing about the religion of the future.

Anselm Kyongsuk Min is a professor of the philosophy of religion and theology at Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, Calif.

Kirsten Oh is a doctoral student at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, Calif., who can discuss Asian-American evangelicals.

Russell C. Leong, a writer and poet who teaches Asian-American studies and English at the University of California, Los Angeles, edits Amerasia Journal.

Marion S. Grau is assistant professor of theology at Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, Calif. Her interests include how Asian American religious people interact with Western ideas, and Asian American contributions to Christian theology.

Rebecca Y. Kim is an assistant professor of sociology at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif. Her research includes Korean/Southeast Asian immigrant religious organizations, second-generation Asian-American religious participation and Asian-American intragroup differences. She wrote God’s New Whiz Kids?: Korean American Evangelicals on Campus.

Sharon Kim is an assistant professor of sociology at California State University, Fullerton, and her research includes Asian-Americans and religion, ethnicity, race and immigration.