Amanullah De Sondy is Head of the Study of Religions Department and Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Islam at University College Cork, Ireland. He has taught Islamic Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK, and the University of Miami, USA. He is the author of The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities (Bloomsbury, 2014) and has been contributing to BBC Radio Scotland's "Thought for the Day" for over ten years.

Michelle A. Gonzalez is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Scranton, USA. She is the author of Sor Juana: Beauty and Justice in the Americas (2003), Afro-Cuban Theology: Religion, Race, Culture and Identity (2006), Created in God's Image: An Introduction to Feminist Theological Anthropology (2007), Caribbean Religious History (2010) and Shopping: Christian Explorations of Daily Living (2010).

William S. Green is Professor of Religious Studies and the Fain Family Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Miami, USA. He edited The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, is Associate Editor of The Harper Collins Dictionary of Religion (1995), Co-Editor of The Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period (1996), and Co-Editor of The Encyclopedia of Judaism (2005).