Celia Rothenberg is an assistant professor of religious studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She contributed an article on three forms of Jewish yoga practiced in North America to the November 2006 edition of the journal Nova Religio.

Eliezer Segal is a professor of religious studies at the University of Calgary. He has a Web page explaining the “Varieties of Orthodox Judaism.” The page sets out the many branches of the movement.

Norma Baumel Joseph is an associate professor of religion at Concordia University in Montreal. She writes about the experience of women in Orthodox Judaism.

Catherine Corrigall-Brown is an assistant professor in the department of sociology at the University of Western Ontario. Her research interests include social movements, political sociology, indigenous politics, the environmental movement and identity.

Thomas E. Reynolds is an associate professor of theology at Emmanuel College in Toronto, Canada. He has a son with multiple disabilities and is the author of Vulnerable Communion: A Theology of Disability and Hospitality.

Nancy Nason-Clark is professor emerita of sociology at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Canada. She has written about the interface between religion and domestic violence for the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion and is co-author of Refuge From Abuse: Healing and Hope for Abused Christian Women. She worked on a four-year project funded by the Lilly Endowment called RAVE, Religion and Violence e-Learning, a […]

Stephen A. Kent is a sociology professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and an expert on religions and their views on crime and responses to violence.

Trudy Govier is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge , Alberta , Canada , where, in addition to other duties, she continues to research trust, forgiveness, reconciliation, argumentation and conflict resolution. Her books include Taking Wrongs Seriously: Acknowledgment, Reconciliation and the Politics of Sustainable Peace; A Practical Study of Argument; and Forgiveness and Revenge.

Victor Chan co-founded the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education in Toronto and is the author of numerous books about the Dalai Lama and Tibet. Chan is working on a memoir chronicling his five-decade friendship with the Dalai Lama.