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Dr. Theol. Peter Nynäs is Professor of Study of Religions at Åbo Akademi University (ÅAU), Finland and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology. He is Director and PI of the Åbo Akademi University Centre of Excellence in Research Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective Project (2015–2019) and earlier the Centre of Excellence in Research Post-secular Culture and a Changing Religious Landscape in Finland Project (2010–2014). Among the books he has edited are On the Outskirts of "the Church”: Diversities, Fluidities, and New Spaces of Religion in Finland (with R. Illman and T. Martikainen, LIT-Verlag, 2015), Religion, Gender, and Sexuality in Everyday Life (with A. Yip, Ashgate, 2012), and The Diversity of Worldviews among Young Adults: Contemporary (Non)Religiosity and Spirituality through the Lens of an International Mixed Method Study (with A. Keysar, J. Kontala, B.-W. Kwaku Golo, M. Lassander, M. Shterin, S. Sjö, and P. Stenner, Springer, 2021).

David Wulff is Professor Emeritus at Wheaton College (Massachusetts, United States). He is in particular known for his contribution to the field of religion and psychology. His highly influential handbook on Psychology of Religion. Classic and Contemporary, gives a substantial overview of the many different approaches to the psychology of religion since the inception of the discipline around 1900. It has been used for decades across the world. He also developed the Faith Q-sort for the assessment of religiosity. With the article “Prototypes of Faith: Findings with the Faith Q-Sort” in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 2019, 58(3): 643-665 he introduced the Faith Q-sort based on Q-methodology that he had developed for assessing religiosity.

Dr. Mika Lassander, the author of Post-Materialist Religion: Pagan Identities and Value Change in Modern Europe (Bloomsbury, 2014) and co-editor of Post-Secular Society (Transaction, 2012), has specialised in methodology in the study of religions, particularly pragmatism, quantitative and mixed-methods approaches, and Actor-Network Theory. His general research interest is in the social-psychological study of the effects of long-term social changes on individuals’ worldviews and values. He worked as a senior researcher for the Åbo Akademi University Centre of Excellence in Research Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective (2015–2018). He is currently working as a Head of Development for Statistics Finland.

Dr Ruth Illman is the Director of the Donner Institute for Research in Religion and Culture in Turku, Finland. She holds the title of Docent in the study or religions at Åbo Akademi University (ÅAU) and in the history of religions at Uppsala University, as well as doctoral degrees in the study of religions (2004) and Jewish studies (2018). Her main research interests include cultural encounters and diversity, contemporary Judaism, religion and the arts (especially music) and ethnographic research, primarily by developing the analytical approach of vernacular religion. Illman acted as Co-PI for the Centre of Excellence Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective at ÅAU (2014–18). Currently, she leads the research project Boundaries of Jewish Identities in Contemporary Finland and acts as Editor-in-Chief of the open access peer-review journal Nordisk judaistik / Scandinavian Jewish Studies with Svante Lundgren. Recent publications are found at: https://research.abo.fi/en/persons/ruth-illman

Rafael Fernández-Hart, PhD, is Professor and Director of the Facultad de Filosofía, Educación y Ciencias Humanas, Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Lima, Peru. His research focuses on issues related to the philosophy of religion with a special emphasis on the development of the sacred in contexts of secularization and the links between philosophy, theology, and spirituality. Fernández functioned as local investigator for the YARG project in Peru. Recent publications include “Revelación y religion en Levinas” in Estudios de Filosofía (Vol 57, 2018) and “The Internet, social media, and the critical interrogation of traditional religion among young adults in Peru” with Sidney Castillo Cardenas and Marcus Moberg in Moberg, M. & Sjö, S. 2020. Digital media, young adults, and religion: An international perspective. Abingdon, NY: Routledge.

Dr. Ariela Keysar, a demographer, is a recipient of the 2021 Marshall Sklare Award, given by the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry to ""a senior scholar who has made a significant scholarly contribution to the social scientific study of Jewry.” Keysar is Senior Fellow, Program on Public Values, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. She is Co-Principal Investigator, The Class of 1995/5755 Longitudinal Study of Young American and Canadian Jews, 1995-2019; and U.S. Principal Investigator, Young adults and religion in a global perspective, YARG, 2015-2018. She was Associate Director of the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture at Trinity College, 2005-19. Keysar is co-author of Religion in a Free Market and The Next Generation: Jewish Children and Adolescents. She co-edited volumes on secularism in relation to women, science, and secularity. She holds a Ph.D. in demography from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Dr. Maria Klingenberg is associate professor in Sociology of Religion and holds a position as senior lecturer in Social Sciences of Religion and Didactics at Uppsala University (Sweden). Within her primary field of research, religion and youth, she has experience from conducting both in-depth case studies and large-scale quantitative surveys, touching upon theories such as religious socialization and majority-minority perspectives. Her research engagements include research within the research project Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective (YARG) at Åbo Akademi University, Finland (2015-2018) as well as research within the research program Impact of Religion: Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy at Uppsala University, Sweden (2008-2018). Klingenberg is also an editor of YOUNG: Nordic Journal of Youth Research.

Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Ghana, Legon. He teaches in the areas of theological studies, religion and society, and ecological theology/ethics. Some of his recent publications are "Religious Environmental Stewardship, the Sabbath and Sustainable Futures in Africa: Implications for Sustainability Discourse," Consensus: A Canadian Journal of Public Theology Vol. 41: Issue 1, Article 4. (2020), and “The Contents and Discontents of Internet and Social Media Use in the Religious Lives of Ghanaian Young Adults.” In Marcus Moberg and Sofia Sjo (eds.) Digital Media, Young Adults and Religion: An International Perspective. London: Routledge (2020). Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo was the Local Investigator (LI) for the international research project Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective at Åbo Akademi University (ÅAU), Turku, Finland (2014–18).

Dr. Nurit Novis-Deutsch is a social psychologist researching values and moral development in the department of Learning and Instructional Sciences at the University of Haifa in Israel. Her research concerns the ways in which people create and manage contradictory frames of meaning and values and how they organize their identities and relate to others in social contexts. Other aspects of her research apply these topics to the field of education. Recent and current research projects include: Pluralistic reasoning; outgroup dehumanization; the challenges of ultra-religious college students; religious meaning-making during the COVID-19 crisis, prejudice and religiosity, religious subjectivities of young adults globally (the YARG project), interdisciplinary education, and Holocaust education and memory. Dr. Novis-Deutsch's research has been published in various psychological and educational journals and books. She also heads the MA program for Pedagogical Development in Educational Systems at the University of Haifa.

Having completed her studies from University of Kalyani (B.A.,M.A., Ph.D.), professor Ruby Sain has been serving the profession of Sociology for over 30 years at Jadavpur University and then joined at Adamamas University as Emeritus Professor. She established the Centre for the Study of Religion and Society at Jadavpur University and founded the Jadavpur University Journal of Sociology. In addition she has served as Guest Faculty at University of Manitoba, Lund University , Gothenborg University, University of California , Grand Valley State University, and been Visiting Fellow in Oxford University and developed research collaborations with many of these and other universities. She has published several articles and book chapters and among her many edited or authored books we find titles such as “Sociology of Religion: Past, Present and Future”, “Contemporary Social Problems in India”, “Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Society and “The Future of Religious Studies in India“.

Marat Shterin is Professor of the Sociology of Religion at King's College London (UK). He is also Co-Editor of the journal Religion, State & Society. Trained as a sociologist of religion, he has published edited volumes and articles on New Religious Movements, religiously motivated radicalism, and religion and law in Russia.

Sławomir Sztajer holds a PhD in philosophy from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, where he is University Professor at the Center of Religious and Comparative Studies. He has published books and articles on religious language, religious cognition, and religious change. Recent publications include Changing Trajectories of Religion and Popular Culture: Cognitive and Anthropological Dimensions (LIT Verlag 2018, co-authored with Jarema Drozdowicz) and Religion and Religiosity in the Processes of Modernization and Globalization (WN UAM 2016, coedited with Zbigniew Drozdowicz).