Professor Dan Cohn-Sherbok is a Reform Judaism Rabbi, Professor Emeritusof Judaism at the University of Wales, and a Visiting Research Fellow at Heythrop college . He is also a prolific author, and was a Finalist inthe Times Preacher of the year competition in 2011. Dawoud El-Alami (Author) Dr Dawoud El-Alami is a lawyer and academic who has held appointments at the University of Kent in Canterbury, the University of Oxford, Al Al-Bayt University in Jordan and the University of Wales, Lampeter. George D Chryssides (Author) Dr George D Chryssides is Honorary Research Fellow in Contemporary Religion at the University of Birmingham. He holds a M.A. in Philosophy and aB.D. in Systematic Theology from the University of Glasgow and a D.Phil. in Philosophy of Religion from the University of Oxford. He has a particular interest in new religious movements, on which he has published extensively.