Sallie B. King is a professor of philosophy and religion at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va. A specialist in Buddhism, she has written extensively about engaged Buddhism, the activist and peacemaking branch of contemporary Buddhism. Major publications include Being Benevolence: The Social Ethics of Engaged Buddhism and Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia, […]

Read a roundup of the positions of various religious groups and denominations on capital punishment, posted by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

Gregory Schopen is a professor of South Asian Buddhism in the department of Asian languages and cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has written on the role of money in Buddhism, especially in India.

Sid Brown is a professor in the Asian Studies Program at Sewanee, The University of the South, in Sewanee, Tenn. She is an expert on Buddhism and has taught on Buddhism and the environment.

Donald K. Swearer is a faculty member in the department of religion at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. He is an expert on ecology and Buddhism.

Duncan Williams, associate professor of East Asian languages and literature at the University of Southern California, specializes in Asian-American Buddhism and its relationship to the environment.

Kat Liu is the daughter of Chinese immigrants, growing up with a mixture of Christian, Buddhist and Taoist/Confucian influences.  She has been a Unitarian Universalist for about seven years and is assistant director of the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Washington Office for Advocacy.

A. Hiro Nishikawa of Haverford, Pa., is a third-generation Japanese American and a national board member of the Japanese American Citizens League. As a child, he was incarcerated during World War II with his family in a concentration camp in Poston, Ariz. Raised Buddhist (Shin-shu), he is active in the Unitarian Universalist Church.

Chung Hyun Kyung is associate professor of ecumenical theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. A lay theologian of the Presbyterian Church of Korea, she was once a temporary Buddhist novice nun. Her interests include feminist and eco-feminist theologies and spiritualities from Asia, Christian-Buddhist dialogue and Zen meditation. She wrote Struggle to Be the Sun Again: […]