Eduard Shyfrin
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…
Toji Kamata
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…
Jim Faulconer
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…
Ravi Gomatam
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
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.
Stephen Lambden
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
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.
Aaron Segal
Aaron Segal is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He works in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and Jewish philosophy. Segal has published in such journals as Mind, Nous, Philosophical Studies, Philosophers’ Imprint, Religious Studies, and Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. He co-edited (with Daniel Frank) the volumes Jewish…
Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf Hanson currently serves as president of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California, the first accredited Muslim liberal arts college in the United States. A proponent of the traditional liberal arts and great books education in both the Western and Muslim traditions, he has translated, authored, and co-authored numerous publications, including scholarly books and articles…
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, FBA is the Distinguished Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy at Lancaster University. His research focuses on Indian religions–Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism–and comparative phenomenology, epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion. His studies include the conceptual roots of contemporary beliefs, politics and conflict in religious context, and the religious identities of South Asian…
Stephan van Erp
Stephan van Erp is a professor of fundamental theology and the coordinator of the Research Unit Systematic Theology and the Study of Religions. He is also the coordinator of the Research Group for Fundamental and Political Theology and of the Interfaculty Centre for Catholic Thought. He studied theology at the Theological Faculty of Tilburg and…