Ralph W. Hood Jr is Professor of Psychology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and UT Alumni Association Distinguished Service Professor. He is a past president of Division 36 of the American Psychological Association and a recipient of its’ William James award for research in the psychology of religion. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Brill series, Psychology and Religion.
Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor is Professor in the Sociology of Islam at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University, UK. She is Chair (2020-2023) of the Muslims in Britain Research Network (MBRN) and edits Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (RSSR). As a feminist sociologist, she interrogates the power dynamics within knowledge production and the implications of the processes and systems of knowledge on society as a whole. Her research portfolio currently includes research on digital religion, vulnerable children, definitions of security and inter-convictional dialogue. She has several publications including her latest title Muslim Women in Britain, 1850–1950: 100 Years of Hidden History (Hurst 2023).
Ashok Kumar Mocherla is Associate Professor of Sociology at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India. His academic areas include sociology of religion, caste system, minority studies, public health, missionary medicine, and faith healing. He is the author of Dalit Christians in South India: Caste, Ideology, and Lived Religion (Routledge: 2020) and editor of Democratization of Indian Christianity: Hegemony, Accessibility and Resistance (Routledge: 2024). He has held visiting positions at Harvard University, USA, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA, and Bielefeld University, Germany.