The Faith in Affordable Housing project works with churches of all denominations in England and Wales to release surplus land or redundant buildings for the development of new social and genuinely affordable homes.

The Kangyur Rinpoche Foundation was established in 1980 by Pema Wangyal Rinpoche, Gerard Godet and Peter Benson as a vehicle to perpetuate the activities of Kyabje Kangyur Rinpoche in India, Tibet and the West.

The Rev. Haig Chahinian is chief executive officer of Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation, a Canadian media company. Chahinian grew up in Toronto as part of the Armenian Catholic Church, one of 23 sui iuris Eastern Churches in communion with the Holy See. He’s served in various Catholic broadcasting, marketing and digital media roles. […]

David Seljak is a professor of religion at the University of Waterloo. He studies multiculturalism in Canada and Quebec, with interests in the sociology of Canadian Catholicism.

Ariel Salzmann is a history professor at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. Her research includes histories of Mediterranean communities and Muslim societies, the transformation of market systems and the making of global capitalism, as well as Islamophobia and Catholic-Muslim relations.

Claire Giangravè is a Rome-based reporter for RNS, covering the Catholic Church and the Vatican. Before joining RNS in 2019, Giangravè was at Crux Catholic Media Inc., where she served as a faith and culture correspondent. She also previously worked at CNBC/Class Editori, ForexInfo.it, PBS and MSNBC News. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Roma […]

Susannah Crockford is a lecturer in anthropology at Exeter University, specializing in environmental and medical anthropology and the anthropology of religion. Her first book, Ripples of the Universe: Spirituality in Sedona, Arizona, deals with issues related to the politics and economics of wellness, health and spirituality. She is working on a second book, a multi-sited […]

Hannah Gould is a cultural anthropologist in Australia interested in death, Buddhism and material culture in Australia and Northeast Asia. Gould’s research spans new traditions and technologies of Buddhist death rites, the life cycle of religious materials and modern lifestyle movements.

Alina Kokoschka is a researcher in Islamic studies, specializing in the aesthetics of Islamization, with a focus on the material worlds of Islam and Arabic script in the digital space. She also has interest in the relationship between people and things as well as criticism of representations of Islam and “Islamic art.”