Eduard Volodymyrovych Shyfrin is a Ukrainian-Russian entrepreneur who is a co-owner of the Midland Group. From 1977–1983, he attended the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, earning a PhD in metallurgy. Shifrin spent many years studying the Torah and Kabbalah with a particular interest in the intersection of science and religion. He also published a…
Motsamai Molefe is a senior researcher at the Centre for Leadership Ethics at the University of Fort Hare. He specialises in African philosophy, Applied Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy.
Marie-Hélène Gorisse is currently a FWO post-doctoral researcher and guest professor at Ghent University. After having completed her PhD at Lille University, she was BOF post-doctoral researcher at Ghent University, Gonda Fellow at the IASS in Leiden and Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS in London. Her main research interests are Jainism and South Asian epistemology,…
Toji Kamata is Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University and Specially Appointed Professor at the Institute of Grief Care at Sophia University in Japan. He is ordained as a Shinto priest. He has authored numerous books addressing Japanese spirituality from historical, cultural and philosophical perspectives. An English translation of his book Myth and Deity in Japan…
Rahim Acar teaches philosophy of religion at Marmara University, Faculty of Theology. He received his Ph.D. at Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department at Harvard University in 2002. He is a member of the Society for the Philosophy of Religion in Instanbul, Turkey. His publications include Talking about God and Talking about Creation: Avicenna’s and Thomas…
James E. Faulconer is an American philosopher, a former Richard L. Evans Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University, the former director of BYU’s London Centre, a Fellow at the Wheatley Institution (and its former associate director), and a Senior Research Fellow at the Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. He previously served as the dean…
Tyron Goldschmidt is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. He works primarily on metaphysics, philosophy of religion, early modern philosophy and medieval philosophy. He has published on these subjects in various academic journals.
Ravi Gomatam is the Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute and the Institute of Semantic Information Sciences and Technology. After obtaining his master’s degree in electronics engineering, Ravi Gomatam worked for a few years with Air India in Mumbai, on software development projects, including online crew scheduling. He then went to the USA, where he worked for…
Ted Good currently works at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto. HIs primary research areas are in History of Religion, Social and Political Philosophy and Metaphysics.
Dr. Stephen Lambden is an academic researcher at the University of California, Merced. He specializes in Biblical, Qur’anic and Bábí-Baha’i Studies. He received his PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 2002 where he submitted a thesis about Islamo-biblica and the emergence of the Babi-Baha’i Interpretation of the Bible. He has…
Samuel Lebens is associate Professor in the philosophy department at the University of Haifa, Israek. He is also an Orthodox Rabbi and Jewish educator. His first book was a study of Bertrand Russell’s evolving theories about the nature of meaning. His second book is a study in the analytic philosophy of Judaism.
Chad Meister, PhD, is Affiliate Scholar of the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion at the University of Notre Dame. He was previously professor of philosophy at Bethel University. He received his undergraduate degree in automated manufacturing technology (robotics). He later received his M.A. in theology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and a Ph.D.…