F. LeRon Shults, Ph.D., is professor at the University of Agder and director of the Center for Modeling Social Systems in Kristiansand, Norway. He has published 17 books and over 70 articles on the philosophy and science of religion.

In Practicing Safe Sects F. LeRon Shults provides scientific and philosophical resources for having "the talk" about religious reproduction: where do gods come from - and what are the costs of bearing them in our culturally pluralistic, ecologically fragile environment?