Contributors Michael Nagler (Our Spiritual Crisis) is a longtime resident and workshop presenter at the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation. He is the founder and former chair of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at the University of California at Berkeley, where he recently retired from faculty positions in classics and comparative literature. He has written and lectured widely on nonviolence; his latest volume, Is There No Other Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future, received an American Book Award in 2002. A new edition will appear in the fall of 2004. Lewis S. Mudge (A Response to “Our Spiritual Crisis”) is the Robert Leighton Stuart Professor of Theology Emeritus at San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union. Douglas K. Mikkelson (Aquinas and D¯ogen: Questions and Answers on the Religious Life) is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. He holds a masters degree in philosophy and a doctoral degree in religion from Columbia University. He has published articles in Philosophy East and West, The Eastern Buddhist, and the International Review of Chinese Buddhist Religion and Philosophy, of which he is editor. His forthcoming book is The Greatest Story Ever Told: A Silver Screen Gospel. Giv Nassiri (The Contemporary Crisis in Islamdom and the Role of Scholars in Its Renewal) holds a doctoral degree in Near Eastern studies from the University of California at Berkeley and a master's degree from the University of Paris. He lectures on Islamic disciplines and the ancient and modern history of Islam and Islamic societies at the Graduate Theological Union. His current research interests include the role of traveling scholars in Turco-Persian civilization and the interactions of Islamic Greek philosophy and Sufism. His most recent work is A Descriptive Bibliography of 90 Rare Primary Sufi Manuscripts in Persian. Karma Lekshe Tsomo (Everyday Dharma and Perfect Enlightenment: Contemporary Buddhist Hermeneutics) is an assistant professor of theology and religious studies at the University of San Diego. She studied Buddhism in Dharamsala for 15 years and completed a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Hawaii with research on death and identity in China and Tibet. Her books include Buddhist Women and Social Justice: Ideals, ,
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