Manfred B. Steger is Professor of Global Studies and Director of the Globalism Research Centre at RMIT University, Australia and Senior Research Fellow at the Globalization Research Center in Honolulu, Hawai′i

James Goodman is Associate Professor in the Social and Political Change Group at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney

Erin K Wilson is the Director of the Centre for Religion, Conflict and the Public Domain, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen, the Netherlands