John Clifford Holt is a Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College. He is the author of more than a dozen books on the religious cultures of South and Southeast Asia.

Philip Friedrich is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Farzana Haniffa is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Colombo.

John Clifford Holt (Ph.D., Chicago) is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Humanities in Religion and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College.

Dennis B. McGilvray is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and President of the American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies.

M. A. Nuhman, Retired Professor of Tamil, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, is a well known scholar, poet, literary critic, linguist and a creative translator in Tamil.

Benjamin Schonthal is Lecturer in Buddhism / Asian Religions at the University of Otago in New Zealand.

Kalinga Tudor Silva holds a BA from the University of Peradeniya and PhD from Monash University, Australia.

Jonathan A. Young is Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.

"Islamophobia has triggered communal violence and poisoned social relations in several Theravada Buddhist countries in recent years. Exploring the case of Sri Lanka, the present collection offers scholarship at its best: informative and stimulating, engaging and sophisticated. It presents original field observations, hard-hitting facts on Buddhist extremist derivations and comprehensive analyses, as it introduces the reader to the stunning complexity of the lives of Sri Lanka's Muslim minorities. Yet this is not just an insightful and timely collection of fine essays. It promises to be immensely useful as a resource for studying ethno-religious instability and will be required reading for anyone who takes an interest in contemporary Buddhist-Muslim relations." --Jacques P. Leider, École française d'Extrême-Orient, Yangon