Allen Bodner is a boxing historian and the author of When Boxing Was a Jewish Sport. His father was a professional boxer. Bodner is an attorney in New York City.

William Baker is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Maine in Orono. He has written about Christ and the Olympics. His books include If Christ Came to the Olympics and Playing With God: Religion and Modern Sport. He argues that religion and sport have made peace with each other.

Rebecca T. Alpert is a rabbi and an associate professor of religion and women’s studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, Penn. She writes on baseball, queer culture and religion.

Robin Sylvan is an adjunct professor of art and religion at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif. He has written about religion and rave culture, popular music, rap and hip-hop.

David Rosen is a professor of Jungian psychology at Texas A&M University in College Station and author of The Tao of Elvis (Harvest Books, 2002), a book of reflections on Elvis and Taoist principles.

Teresa L. Reed is the author of The Holy Profane: Religion in Black Popular Music (University Press of Kentucky, 2004), in which she links West-African musical and religious cultures and religious lyrics and themes in African-American blues, rhythm and blues, soul, funk and gangsta rap. She is an associate professor of music at the University of Tulsa […]

Kate McCarthy is an associate professor of religious studies at California State University, Chico. She has written about religious expression in rock music, including the music of Bruce Springsteen.

The Rev. J. Clinton McCann is a professor of biblical interpretation at Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis. He has written about religion and popular music.

Andrea Most is the author of Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical (Harvard University Press, 2004), in which she discusses how Jews used the Broadway musical as a means of assimilation during the second quarter of the 20th century. She is a professor of English at the University of Toronto.