Michael Amaladoss, S.J., has been a professor of dogmatic theology at Vidyajyoti College of Theology, Delhi from 1973-83 and 1995-2010. He has also taught at other theological institutes in Manila, Paris, Bruxelles, Cincinnati, Washington and Berkeley. He has been a consultant to the Pontifical Councils of Interreligious Dialogue and Culture and the World Council of Churches and was the president of the International Association of Mission Studies.
Allan Heaton Anderson is Professor of Global Pentecostal Studies at the University of Birmingham, England, where he has worked since 1995. He is author of several books on Pentecostalism worldwide, the latest being To the Ends of the Earth: Pentecostalism and the Transformation of World Christianity (2013), Spreading Fires: The Missionary Nature of Early Pentecostalism (2007) and An Introduction to Pentecostalism (2004).
Wesley Ariarajah, Methodist Minister from Sri Lanka, is currently Professor of Ecumenical Theology at the Drew University School of Theology. His publications include The Bible and People of Other Faiths, Hindus and Christians: A Century of Protestant Ecumenical Thought, Not without My Neighbour: Issues in Interfaith Relations, Axis of Peace: Christian Faith in Times of Conflict and War, and Your God, My God and Our God - Rethinking Christian Faith for Religious Plurality.
Julius Bautista is an anthropologist and cultural historian who teaches courses in religious studies, politics and culture at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore where he is a Senior Lecturer. Concurrently, he is an Associate at the Asia Research Institute's Religion and Globalization in Asian Contexts Cluster. Dr. Bautista is author of Figuring Catholicism: An Ethno history of the Santo Nino de Cebu (2010) and co-editor (with Francis Lim) of Christianity and the State in Asia: Complicity and Conflict (2009).
Paul Joshua Bhakiaraj is an Elder at a local church, and serves as a Lecturer in Theology at the South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies. He has published a number of articles in journals and in books such as Atlas of Global Christianity (2009) and has co-edited Missiology for the 21st Century: South Asian Perspectives (2004) and Indian & Christian: Changing Identities in Modern India (2011).
Sharon A. Bong is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University, Malaysia. She is author of The Tension Between Women's Rights and Religions: The Case of Malaysia (2006) and former Coordinator of the Ecclesia of Women in Asia, an academic forum of Catholic women theologizing in Asia.
Francis X. Clooney, S.J. is Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology at Harvard Divinity School, and Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions. He the author of numerous articles and books, including most recently Beyond Compare: St. Francis de Sales and Sri Vedanta Desika on Loving Surrender to God (2008), The Truth, the Way, the Life: Christian Commentary on the Three Holy Mantras of the Srivaisnava Hindus (2008), and Comparative Theology: Deep Learning across Religious Borders (2010).
Gemma Tulud Cruz is Senior Lecturer in Theology at Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. She is author of An Intercultural Theology of Migration and One Bread, One Body, One People: Toward a Theology of Migration (forthcoming).
Georg Evers was head of the Asia Desk of the Institute of Missiology Missio in Aachen from 1979-2001. He has published widely in the field of contextual theologies, interreligious dialogue, and theology of religions. He is editor of the bibliographical journal Theology in Context and author of The Churches in Asia (2005).
Jose Mario C. Francisco, S.J. has taught at Loyola School of Theology and East Asian Pastoral Institute at the Ateneo de Manila University and at Boston College as Gasson Professor. He published critical editions of 17th century Philippine manuscripts, Science, Religion and Culture in the Jesuit Tradition (2006), and contributed to Christianities in Asia (2011), Cambridge History of Christianity Volume 8 (2006), and The Dictionary of Asian Christianity (2001).
Jude Lal Fernando is a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin. He also teaches in Dublin City University and Carlow College, Carlow. His first monograph, A Paradigm for a Peace Movement: Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr. explores the potential in Buddhism and Christianity for peace building.
Ananta Kumar Giri is currently on the faculty of Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India and has worked and taught in many universities in India and abroad. He has written numerous books in Oriya and English. Among his books are: Knowledge and Human Liberation: Towards Planetary Realizations (forthcoming); Sociology and Beyond: Windows and Horizons (2011); Philosophy and Anthropology: Border-Crossing and Transformations (co-editor, forthcoming), and Pathways of Creative Research: Towards a Festival of Dialogues (editor, forthcoming).
George Gispert-Sauch is a member of the staff in his theological Alma Mater, St Mary's College, Kurseong that in 1972, became the Vidyajyoti College of Theology in Delhi. He has taught mostly Christian theology and indological subjects. His thesis published in1967 dealt with the concept of Ananda (divine Bliss) in Vedic literature in relation to the Holy Spirit in the Biblical revelation. His teaching and numerous writings deal largely with the interface between the Christian history and thought and the Indian tradition.
Aruna Gnanadason served the World Council of Churches in Geneva directing its program on women in church and society; and the work on justice, peace and creation. She now lives in Chennai and offers her services as a freelance writer, speaker, and editor to the churches in India and globally.
Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. A specialist in Islam and politics in Southeast Asia, he has authored over thirty journal articles, most recently in the Japanese Journal of Political Science and Asian Survey.
Rudolf C. Heredia taught sociology at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, was the founder director of the Social Science Centre; the director, department of research at the Indian Social Institute, Delhi; edited the institute's journal, Social Action; and been a research fellow there. Some of his publications are: Changing Gods: Rethinking Conversion in India, 2007; Taking Sides, Reservations Quotas and Minority Rights in India, 2012.
Norbert Hintersteiner is Associate Professor in World Christianity and Interfaith Studies at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His book publications include: Postcolonial Europe in the Crucible of Cultures (2007, co-editor); Thinking the Divine in Interreligious Encounter (2012, editor).
Dennis Hirota is professor of Shin Buddhist Studies at Ryukoku University, Kyoto. He is the Head Translator of The Collected Works of Shinran (1997), and other publications include Asura's Harp: Engagement with Language as Buddhist Path ( 2006), and Toward a Contemporary Understanding of Pure Land Buddhism ( 2000).
Sebastian Kim is Chair of Theology and Public Life in the Faculty of Education & Theology of York St John University, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and an Executive Committee member of the Global Network for Public Theology. He is the author of In Search of Identity: Debates on Religious Conversion in India (2003), Theology in the Public Sphere (2011), co-author of Christianity as a World Religion (Continuum, 2008), and edited number of books including Christian Theology in Asia (2008).
Albertus Bagus Laksana, S. J., teaches at Sanata Dharma University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. His research interests and publications include topics in Muslim-Christian comparative theology (especially the role of pilgrimage, saints and sacred space) and theology of religions, mission studies, theology and culture, and Asian theologies. He is also the managing editor of Basis, a journal of culture and religion, based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Archie C.C. Lee has been a professor at the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the founding president of Society of Asian Biblical Studies SABS, 2006. He is currently on the Council of Society of Bible Literature. He was associate editor of Global Bible Commentary (2004) and serves on the editorial committee of Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity (2010).
Jun Li is an assistant professor at the Department of Educational Administration and Policy of the Faculty of Education of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has been published extensively, including the new co-authored book, Portraits of 21st Century Chinese Universities: In the Move to Mass Higher Education (2011), World-class Higher Education and the Emerging Chinese model of the University (2012), and The Chinese Model of Teacher Education: Retrospect over a Century and Prospects in the Future (2012).
Swee Hong Lim is the Deer Park Assistant Professor of Sacred Music and Director of the Master of Sacred Music program at Emmanuel College, the University of Toronto, Canada. He holds a Bachelor of Church Music from the Asian Institute for Liturgy and Music, Manila, Master of Sacred Music from Southern Methodist University, Texas, and PhD in liturgical studies from Drew University, New Jersey.
Gudrun Löwner taught at Heidelberg and Wuppertal University. Her areas of research are Buddhism, India and art. For her intensive academic work and social work in India, she was awarded in 2008 the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Presently she teaches in Bangalore.
David Mark Neuhaus, S.J. is Latin Patriarchal Vicar for Hebrew Speaking Catholics in Israel and coordinator of the pastoral among migrants for the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem. He teaches Scripture at the Seminary of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem in Beit Jala and in the Religious Studies Department at Bethlehem University. His publications include Justice and the Intifada: Palestinians and Israelis speak out, and The Land that I will show you and, Bible and History.
Sebastien Peyrouse is Research Professor of International Affairs, The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington DC). He is the author of Turkmenistan. Strategies of Power, Dilemmas of Development (2011), and the co-author of The 'Chinese Question' in Central Asia. Domestic Order, Social Changes, and the Chinese Factor (2012) and of Globalizing Central Asia. Geopolitics and the Challenges of Economic Development (2012).
Peter C. Phan is the inaugural holder of the Ignacio Ellacuría Chair of Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown University and is the founding Director of the Graduate Studies Program in Theology and Religious Studies. His publications in theology are wide-ranging.
Daniel Franklin Pilario is a professor and present Dean of St. Vincent School of Theology, Adamson University in Quezon City, Philippines. His work Back to the Rough Grounds of Praxis (2005) won the Jan en Marie Huyge Prijs of the Academische Stichting Leuven in Belgium.
Huang Po Ho is currently professor of Theology and vice president of Chang Jung Christian University in Taiwan. He is the founding chairperson of Formosa Christianity and Culture Research Center. His numerous books include, A Theology of Self-determination, From Galilee to Tainan, No Longer a Stranger and Mission from the Underside.
Ataullah Siddiqui is a Visiting Professor at the University of Gloucestershire. He is the Reader in Religious Pluralism and Inter-Faith Relations at Markfield Institute of Higher Education where he led the Institute as the Director from 2001 to 2008. His publications include: Beyond the Dysfunctional Family: Jews, Christians and Muslims in Dialogue with one another and with Britain (2012).
Jonathan Y. Tan is currently Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy of Australian Catholic University, having previously taught at Xavier University and The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He is the author of Introducing Asian American Theologies (2008).
Edmond Tang taught in the Holy Spirit Seminary in Hong Kong before joining Pro Mundi Vita, an international research center in Brussels, at their Asia Desk in 1978. He moved to Britain in 1990 to work as the China secretary of the Council of Churches in Britain and Ireland while editing the China Study Journal. Since 1999 he has been lecturing on global Christianity and inter-cultural theology at the University of Birmingham
Herman Teule is professor of Eastern Christianity at the Universities of Nijmegen and Louvain and Head of the Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at Nijmegen. His recent publications include: Christianity in Iraq. An analysis of some recent developments in Der Islam (2012) and Les chrétiens d'Irak: Quelle place dans la société?.
Felix Wilfred is founder-director of the Asian Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, Chennai. He was Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Chairman of the School of Philosophy and Religious Thought, at the State University of Madras. He was also Professor and head of the Department of Christian Studies in the same University.
Angela Wai Ching Wong is an Associate Professor of the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, and a concurrent Professor of the Chung Chi College Divinity School at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Some representative publications include: Our Bodies Our Stories: Narrating Female Sexuality in Hong Kong, in Mainstreaming Gender in Hong Kong (2009), and co-ed. with CHOI Poking, Chinese Women and Hong Kong Christianity: An Oral History (2010).
Richard Fox Young holds the Timby Chair in History of Religions at Princeton Theological Seminary. An Indologist originally, Resistant Hinduism (1981), The Bible Trembled (1995), and Vain Debates (1996), all from the Indological Institute of the University of Vienna, are his most widely-cited monographs on the encounter of Hindus and Buddhists with Christian missions in South Asia.
