Chaya Halberstam is a professor of religious studies at King’s University College in London, Ontario, Canada. Her research focuses on ancient Judaism, with an emphasis on rabbinic Judaism, and the Hebrew Bible. She is the author of Law and Truth in Biblical and Rabbinic Literature.

Megan Shore is a professor of religious studies at King’s University College in London, Ontario, Canada. Her research focuses on Catholic social thought and on religion and conflict. With Scott Kline, she is co-writing a book titled Catholic Approaches to Just Peacemaking.

Scott Kline is an associate professor of religion at St. Jerome’s University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. His research interests include Catholic social thought, political theology and Christian ethics. He co-wrote a chapter for Religion and Conflict Resolution called “Catholic  Peacemaking and Pax Christi.”

Geraldine Mossière is a professor of theology and religious studies at the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She studies the anthropology of religion, religion and healing, new practices of Christianity in Quebec and religious mobility, among other topics. Her publications include “Quebec’s Catholicism through the Convert’s Eyes: why Islam is so much more attractive” published by […]

Jean Duhaime is a professor of theology and religious studies at the Université de Montréal in Quebec, Canada. He is an expert on the Hebrew Bible, the Qumran texts and ancient Judaism. He is the author of The Dead Sea Scrolls and a chapter in Religion in the Extreme called “The ‘holy war’ in biblical Israel, historical or rhetoric?”

Frank Griffel is a professor of Islamic studies at Yale University. He wrote the chapter on agnosticism for the Encyclopedia of Islam (2004).

Lorna Bowman is a professor of religious studies at Brescia University in London, Ontario, Canada. Her research focuses on the intersection of religion and education, with an emphasis on Catholicism.

Robert Florida is an associate fellow at the University of Victoria in Canada. He studies ethical issues in modern Buddhism.

Bruce Matthews is a professor of comparative religion at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada. He teaches courses on the geopolitics of Asia, with an emphasis on the influence of Buddhism. His research interests include Buddhism and politics in South and Southeast Asia, particularly in Sri Lanka and Myanmar.