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Eileen Barker

Eileen Barker is a professor emeritus in the sociology department at the University of London. She studies minority religions, including cults, sects and New Religious Movements, and relevant social conditions.

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Charles Muller

Charles Muller is a professor in the humanities department at Toyo Gakuen University in Japan. He is the author of The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment: Korean Buddhism’s Guide to Meditation and can speak about Buddhism among Koreans. He also runs the website Resources for East Asian Language and Thought and has become interested in how the Internet can be […]

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Bradley Myles

Bradley Myles is executive director and CEO of the Polaris Project, which fights sex trafficking and helps survivors. It is based in Washington, D.C., and Japan.

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The Alliance (C&MA)

Based in Colorado Springs, Colo. Claims membership of over 4 million people in 13,609 churches in 81 countries and territories including more than 2,000 churches in the United States. Contact Rev. William (Bill) W. Malick, director of church multiplication ministries.

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Keishin Inaba

Keishin Inaba, associate professor of human sciences at Osaka University in Japan, has a website on altruism. He is author of Altruism in New Religious Movements: The Jesus Army and the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order in Britain, which examines whether Christianity and Buddhism change people’s attitudes and behavior towards altruism. He also edited The Practice of […]

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Buzz Dixon

Buzz Dixon is the author of Serenity: Bad Girl in Town (Barbour, 2005), a comic book whose publisher believes it is the first Christian-themed manga, a form of Japanese comic book.

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Elijah Siegler

Elijah Siegler is an associate professor of religious studies at the College of Charleston in Charleston, S.C. He contributed “God in the Box: Religion in Contemporary Television Cop Shows” to the book God in the Details: American Religion in Popular Culture (Routledge, 2001).

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