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Mark Juergensmeyer is distinguished professor emeritus of sociology and global studies and interim director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and William F. Podlich Distinguished Fellow and Professor of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College. He is a pioneer in global studies, focusing on global religion, religious violence, conflict resolution and South Asian religion and politics. He has published more than three hundred articles and thirty books, including the recent God at War (Oxford 2020), the awardwinning Terror in the Mind of God (University of California Press, 4th ed, (2017), and his co-edited Oxford Handbook of Global Studies (Oxford 2018).

Margo Kitts is Professor and Coordinator of religious studies and eastwest classical studies at Hawai’i Pacific University in Honolulu. She has authored 50 chapters/articles and edited or authored twelve books on religion and violence and/or ancient studies. Most recent of her books are Cambridge Companion to Religion and War (Cambridge 2023); Sacrifice: Themes, Theories, and Controversies (Cambridge 2022); Elements of Ritual and Violence (Cambridge 2018), and Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Immolation: Religious Perspectives on Suicide (Ed. Oxford 2018). For updates see https://mkitts.netlify.app/.