Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, who grew up in India, is a religion professor at Emory University in Atlanta whose specialties include Muslim and Hindu popular traditions.

Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana, is the son of Indian immigrants. He grew up Hindu but converted to Catholicism. Contact via Mike Reed, director of communications.

Namsoon Kang, associate professor of world Christianity and religions at Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, researches Asian and Korean feminist theology.

Sze-Kar Wan, who is an Episcopal priest, is a professor of New Testament at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. His research includes neo-Confucianism.

John J. Thatamanil, who emigrated from India to the United States as a child, is assistant professor of theology at Vanderbilt University, Nashville. He teaches courses on Hindu-Christian dialogue and Buddhist-Christian dialogue, and wrote The Immanent Divine: God, Creation and the Human Predicament — An East-West Conversation.

Jonathan Y. Tan, who was born in Malaysia, is a theology professor at Xavier University, Cincinnati. He teaches courses on Islam, Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism.

Frank H. Wu, dean and professor at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, wrote Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White and co-authored Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment.

W. Anne Joh, assistant professor of theology at Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, Okla., is co-chair of the American Academy of Religion’s Asian North American Religion, Culture and Society Group. Her research includes colonization and postcoloniality, race/racism and religion, gender/sexism/heterosexism and religion, and Asian-American history.

Andrew Sung Park is professor of theology at United Theological Seminary in Trotwood, Ohio. His books include Racial Conflict and Healing: An Asian-American Theological Perspective; The Wounded Heart of God: The Asian Concept of Han and the Christian Doctrine of Sin; and From Hurt to Healing: A Theology of the Wounded.