Milda Ališauskienė
Ph.D., Professor, Department of Sociology, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. Her work focuses on contemporary religious movements, sociology of religion, and gender studies. In Europe, her research has primarily been conducted through qualitative methods, while in Asia, she has engaged in extensive fieldwork. Her recent publications include Minority Religions, Society, and State in Contemporary Lithuania (Vytauto Didžiojo universiteto leidykla, 2023).
Peter B. Andersen
Ph.D., D.Phil., Associate Professor, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His work concerns religion in modernity. In Europe, his research has mainly been survey-based; in India, it has been conducted through fieldwork and archive studies. His recent works include The Santal Rebellion 1855–1856: The Call of Thakur (Routledge, 2023).
Eileen Barker
Ph.D., Dr. h.c., FBA, OBE, is Emeritus Professor of Sociology with special reference to the sociology of religion at the London School of Economics. She is also the founder and director of INFORM. Her publications include The Making of a Moonie: Brainwashing or Choice? (Blackwell, 1984) and New Religious Movements: A Practical Introduction (HMSO, 1989).
Peter F. Beyer
Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa. In the mid-1980s his main focus became theorizing and researching the relation between religion and globalization, a process that eventuated in the early 1990s in the book, Religion and Globalization (Sage, 1994) and then somewhat later in quite a number of publications, but especially Religions in Global Society (Routledge, 2006) and Religion in the Context of Globalization (Routledge, 2013).
Irena Borowik
Dr. hab., Professor of Sociology of Religion at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She was co-founder and first President of the International Study of Religion in Eastern and Central Europe Association (ISORECEA) and has been a board member of the Research Committee on Sociology of Religion of the International Sociological Association. Besides several international articles
Lisbet Christoffersen
Ph.D., Professor Emerita of Law and Religion at the Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University as well as Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Copenhagen. Among many publications are Shariʿa as Discourse: Legal Traditions and the Encounter with Europe (Ashgate, 2010) (with Jørgen S. Nielsen) and Religion in the 21st Century: Challenges and Transformations (Ashgate, 2010) (with Hans Raun Iversen, Hanne Petersen and Margit Warburg).
Inger Furseth
Dr. polit., Dr. h.c., Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo as well as Adjunct professor at KIFO, Centre for Church Research. She is president of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion/Société Internationale de Sociologie des Religions (ISSR/SISR), and her publications include An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion. Second Edition (Routledge, 2023) (with Pål Repstad) and Religious Complexity in the Public Sphere. Comparing Nordic Countries (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Peter Gundelach
Magister, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Sociology, Copenhagen University. He has been a member of the European Values Study Group and the principal Danish researcher from 1988 to 2015 and has published extensively on religious values and changing social conditions in Denmark, such as “Danish Values: How Special Are They?” in Ruud Luijkx, Tim Reesken, Inge Sieben (eds.), Reflections on European Values (Open Press TiU, 2022) (with Morten Frederiksen).
Annika Hvithamar
Ph.D., Head of Department at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. Her research is within the contemporary Russian Orthodox Church and global Christianity. Her work includes Holy Nations and Global Identities: Civil Religion, Nationalism, and Globalisation (Brill, 2009) (edited with Margit Warburg and Brian Arly Jacobsen), Ruslands ikoner (Gyldendal, 2009), and Religionssociologiske perspektiver på religion i Danmark (Forlaget Univers, 2022) (edited with Brian Arly Jacobsen, Peter Birkelund Andersen and Morten Warmind).
Trademark attorney at Jaccobachi, Contemporary IP Layers, Torino. Co-founder and managing director of the Centre for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR) in Torino. Since 2012, he has been an “invited professor of sociology of religious movements” at the Salesian Pontifical University in Turin. His research covers, among other issues, the legal situation of new religious movements, and he has often been critical of anti-cult positions. Among his recent publications are Inside the Church of Almighty God: The Most Persecuted Religious Movement in China (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Hans Raun Iversen
Cand. teol. and dr. h.c., Emeritus Associate Professor at The Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen. Much of his research concerns the situation of the national Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark and how it is adapting to societal developments. Among his recent publications are Folkekirke, Brugerkirke, Kirke i mission (Eksistensen, 2021) and Denmark’s Catalyst: The Life and Letters of N.F.S. Grundtvig (Aarhus University Press, 2023) (with Edward Broadbridge).
Brian Arly Jacobsen
Ph.D., Associate Professor at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. His research is mainly in the area of religion and politics and religious minority groups in Denmark. His publications include the edited volume Holy Nations and Global Identities: Civil Religion, Nationalism, and Globalisation (International Studies in Religion and Society 10) (Brill, 2009) (with Margit Warburg and Annika Hvithamar) and Religion og grundlov (Djøf Forlag, 2024) (with Niels Valdemar Vinding and Mikele Schultz-Knudsen).
Niels Kærgård
Dr. polit., Emeritus Professor, Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen. His work includes agrarian politics, economic history, and the relationship with the Danish National Church. Member of the presidency of the Danish Board of Economic Advisors from 1992 to 2001, chairman from 1995 to 2001. Vice-president of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, and chairman of the academy’s section for social science and humanities from 2008 to 2013. His recent publications include Market, Ethics and Religion: The Market and its Limitations (Springer, 2023) (edited).
Pål Repstad
Dr. philos, Emeritus Professor in Sociology of Religion at Department of Religion, Ethics and Culture, Agder University College, Norway and has conducted
Morten Warmind
Ph.D., Associate Professor at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. His interests include pre-Christian north-European religious tradition, such as Nordic and Celtic religion and society, modern religious importance and the role of early Christianity. His recent publications include Religionssociologiske perspektiver på religion i Danmark (Forlaget Univers, 2022) (with Annika Hvithamar, Brian Arly Jacobsen, and Peter Birkelund Andersen).