The Contributors

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Dr Purushottama Bilimoria, School of Social Inquiry, Deakin University, Australia

Professor Gary D. Bouma is the UNESCO Chair in Interreligious and Intercultural Relations – Asia Pacific, Monash University

The late Professor Mary Boyce, Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies, University of London

Dr W. Owen Cole, Religious Studies Department, Chichester Institute of Higher Education

Professor Brian E. Colless, Religious Studies Department, Massey University, New Zealand

Professor John E. Cort, Department of Religion, Denison University, Ohio

L. S. Cousins, formerly Department of Comparative Religion, University of Manchester

Professor Harold Coward, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, British Columbia

Professor Peter Donovan, Religious Studies Department, Massey University, New Zealand

The late Professor Kendall W. Folkert, Department of Religion, Central Michigan University

Professor Armin W. Geertz, Department of the Study of Religions, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Professor John R. Hinnells, formerly Department for the Study of Religions, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and Professor Emeritus, Liverpool Hope University

Professor Ursula King, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol

Professor Kim Knott, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds

Dr Denis MacEoin, formerly of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Professor J. Gordon Melton, Institute for the Study of American Religion, Santa Barbara, California

Professor David Reid, Seigakuin University, Japan

Professor Michael Saso, Institute of Asian Studies, Beijing

Dr Aylward Shorter, Tangaza College, The Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya

Dr Ossie Stuart, freelance writer and researcher on ethnicity, race and identity

Professor Harold W. Turner, formerly of Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham

Dr Alan Unterman, formerly of the Department of Religions and Theology, University of Manchester

Professor Andrew Walls, Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World, University of Edinburgh

Simon Weightman, formerly of the Department for the Study of Religions, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Professor Alford T. Welch, Department of Religious Studies, Michigan State University

Professor Paul Weller, Professor of Inter-Religious Relations, University of Derby and Visiting Fellow, Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture, Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford

Professor Raymond Brady Williams, LaFollette Distinguished Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, Wabash College, USA