The Louisville Institute is a seminary that works to enrich the religious life of American Christians and to encourage the revitalization of their institutions, by bringing together those who lead religious institutions with those who study them, so that the work of each might inform and strengthen the other.

Bruce Matthews is a professor of comparative religion at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada. He teaches courses on the geopolitics of Asia, with an emphasis on the influence of Buddhism. His research interests include Buddhism and politics in South and Southeast Asia, particularly in Sri Lanka and Myanmar.

Daniel Cere is a professor of religious studies at McGill University in Montreal. He specializes in Catholic social thought and marriage and family. He is the author of “Marriage, Subordination and the Development of Christian Doctrine” from Does Christianity Teach Male Headship?

St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada has a Catholic Studies department. It offers a major and a minor, as well as a variety of elective courses.

James Turner is the Cavanaugh Professor of Humanities at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985).

Paul C. Vitz is a professor emeritus of psychology at New York University. He is the author of Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism.

The Rena Costa Center for Yiddush studies is located at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel. It works to expand Yiddush cultural heritage.

The Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Avraham Harman is located at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It focuses on Jewish culture and history, the diaspora, Holocaust studies, and world Jewry.

The Departamento de Estudios Hebreos y Arameos (the department of Hebrew and Armaic studies) at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain promotes the study of Jewish culture and history. Dr. Pablo A. Torijano Morales is director.