F. LeRon Shults is Professor at the Institute for Global Development and Planning at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. His many books include Practicing Safe Sects: Religious Reproduction in Scientific and Philosophical Perspective. Robert Cummings Neville is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology and Dean Emeritus of the School of Theology at Boston University. His many books include Metaphysics of Goodness: Harmony and Form, Beauty and Art, Obligation and Personhood, Flourishing and Civilization, also published by SUNY Press.

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