Mirjam Künkler is an assistant professor in Near Eastern studies at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J. She is also the former deputy director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion at Columbia University in New York, where her dissertation was on Islam and democracy. She is an expert on Islamic politics in Indonesia […]

F. Gregory Gause III is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Doha Center and the incoming John H. Lindsey ’44 Chair in international affairs at the Bush School of Government at Texas A&M University in College Station. He is an expert in Middle East politics and participated in “Roundtable Series on Global Islamic Politics: The Implications of the […]

John Savant is a professor emeritus at Dominican University of California and author of an essay, “The Saving Grace of Sport: Why we watch & play” in the Sept. 26, 2003, edition of Commonweal, an independent Catholic magazine.

John Rosengren is a Minnesota writer and author of several books about sports and religion. His January 2004 essay in U.S. Catholic magazine, “Let Us Play,” examined the relationship of sports to sacramental faith. Rosengren also had an article in the January 2005 issue on the downside of Catholic schools’ catering to sports.

James A. Mathisen is a sociology professor emeritus at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill. where he taught a course in sport and sociology. He is the author of an essay, “American Sport as Folk Religion: Examining a Test of Its Strength” in From Season to Season: Sports as American Religion (2004). He also co-wrote the book Muscular Christianity: […]

Kirk Wakefield, professor of marketing at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has expertise in sports ethics and marketing and fan behavior.

Blake Burleson, senior lecturer in religion at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has expertise in sports ethics and world religions.

Donna Bowman is a professor of religious studies at the Honors College of the University of Central Arkansas and has written on the role of sports and faith.

Shirl James Hoffman is professor emeritus of kinesiology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He wrote the Jan. 29, 2010, Christianity Today cover story “Sports Fanatics,” and he has a book, Good Game: Christianity and the Culture of Sports.