Olga Breskaya is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education, and Applied Psychology at the University of Padova. She co-edited the volumes Religious Freedom: Thinking Sociologically (2023) and Religious Freedom: Social-Scientific Approaches (2021).

Giuseppe Giordan is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education, and Applied Psychology at the University of Padova. He co-edited the volumes Religion Between Governance and Freedoms (2024), and Religious Pluralism: Framing Religious Diversity in the Contemporary World (2014), among others, and co-authored Sociology of Exorcism in Late Modernity (2018).

James T. Richardson is Emeritus Foundation Professor of Sociology and Judicial Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, and served as Director of the Graduate Program for Trial Judges for 30 years at the University of Nevada, co-sponsored by the National Judicial College. He has presented lectures on the social control of new religious movements in over 30 countries. He has published over 300 articles and book chapters and has written or edited over a dozen books.