Erin Prophet Author

Jeffrey J. Kripal is the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. His most recent publications include The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities and The Flip: Who You Are and Why It Matters.

Ata Anzali is an Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Middlebury College. His current research focuses on the social and intellectual history of religious thought in modern Iran. He has a special interest in mystical and fundamentalist movements. He is the author of Mysticism in Iran: the Safavid Roots of a Modern Concept.

Erin Prophet is an Assistant Instructional Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida. Among her publications are “Charisma and Authority in New Religious Movements” in the Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements, Volume II.

Andrea R. Jain is a Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University, the editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and the author of Selling Yoga: From Counterculture to Pop Culture and Peace Love Yoga: The Politics of Global Spirituality. Her areas of research include religion and capitalism, global spirituality, and theories of religion.

Stefan Sanchez is a PhD candidate at Rice University’s Department of Religion. Their research focuses on themes of personal identity and conceptions of nature in Latin American and Indigenous American philosophy and mysticism.