Marie Griffith, John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Washington University in St Louis

C. Pierce Salguero, The Abington College of Pennsylvania State University

Amy-Jill Levine, Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, Hartford International University for Religion and Peace

William Chester Jordan, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University

Abdullahi An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory Law, and senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University

Robert Wilson-Black, CEO, Sojourners

Eddie S. Glaude, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and Chair, Department of African American Studies, Princeton University

Edward Slingerland, Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Asian Studies and associate member of the Departments of Philosophy and Psychology, University of British Columbia

Judith Weisenfeld, Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion, Princeton University

Christine Helmer, Professor of Religious Studies & German, Northwestern Universty

David Shulman, Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

E. J. Dionne, Jr., Paul Elie, Marian Ronan, Simone Campbell, Jeffrey N. Steenson

Robert A. F. Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion, Columbia University

Farid Esack, Head, Department of Religion Studies, University of Johannesburg

Robert Bellah, Elliott Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

Anthony Aveni , Russell B. Colgate Professor of Astronomy and Anthropology and Sociology, Colgate University

Adam Nicolson, author of God's Secretaries: The Making Of The King James Bible

Gary Dorrien, the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University

Ian Buruma, The Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.

Annette Gordon-Reed '81, Wallace Stevens Professor of Law, New York Law School; Winner, 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History

Rudiger Schmitt, Harris Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Munster

Mark Jordan, Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School

Randall Balmer, Professor of American Religious History, Barnard College, Columbia University

Dale Martin, Woolsey Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University

James H. Cone, Charles A. Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology, Union Theological Seminary

Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, Department of Anthropology, Political Science & International Affairs, Columbia University

Elaine Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion, Princeton University

Steven Pinker, author

Amartya Sen, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge

Karen Armstrong, author

Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley

Gita Mehta, author

Robert J. Wuthnow, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University

Talal Asad, Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center, City University of New York

Bruce Lincoln, Professor of History of Religions, University of Chicago

Richard Rorty, Professor of Philosophy, University of Virginia

Martha Nussbaum, Professor of Philosophy, Brown University

Donald Davidson, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley

Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago Divinity School

Thomas Lawson, Professor of Religion, Western Michigan University

R. C. Lewontin, Professor of Biology and Zoology, Harvard University

Carolyn Walker Bynum, Professor of History, University of Washington, Seattle

Marshall Sahlins, Charles F. Grey Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago

Edward Shils, Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago

Michael Harrington, Queens College, City University of New York

Mary Douglas, Professor of the History and Literature of Religion, Northwestern University

Mary Daly, Boston College

René Girard, James M. Beall Professor of French and Humanities, The Johns Hopkins University

Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University

Peter Gay, Yale University

Sydney Ahlstrom, Yale University

Paul Ricoeur, Professor of Philosophy, University of Paris, and John Nuveen Professor at the University of Chicago

Lionel Trilling

Mircea Eliade