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[**Andrew Ball**](/authors/andrew-j-ball/) is associate editor of Screen Bodies and editorial assistant for Communications in Mathematical Physics at Harvard University. He has published in a variety of academic journals such as Religion & Literature, American Literary Realism, and The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics.

[**Gary Bedford**](/authors/gary-bedford/) is a registered representative in Colorado with Cambridge Investment Research, Inc. a Broker/Dealer and Member FINRA/SIPC, and a registered investment advisor representative with Cambridge Investment Research Advisors, InRe He has an M.A. in religious studies and has pursued doctoral studies from the University of Denver.

[**Melissa Conroy**](/authors/melissa-conroy/) is Associate Professor of Religion at Muskingum University. She has been published in the Journal of Religion and Film and Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science and is currently working on a book about Jacques Lacan.

[**Jared Lacey**](/authors/jared-lacey/) is a graduate student at the University of Denver and an assistant editor with The New Polis.

[**Kelly Maeshiro**](/authors/kelly-maeshiro/) is a PhD candidate at Union Theological Seminary. His work falls into two broad categories: practical and speculative. In his practical work, which draws heavily from political economy, especially Marxist political economy.

[**W. Travis McMaken**](/authors/w-travis-mcmaken/) is Associate Professor of Religion, Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies, and Assistant Dean in the School of Humanities at Lindenwood University. He is the author of Our God Loves Justice (Fortress Press, 2017) and The Sign of the Gospel (Fortress Press, 2013).

[**Daniel Reiser**](/authors/daniel-reiser/) is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Jewish Thought at Herzog College in Israel. His dissertation at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was entitled “To Fly like Angels: Imagery or Waking Dream Techniques in Hassidic Mysticism in the First Half of the Twentieth Century.”

[**Alberto Urquidez**](/authors/alberto-urquidez/) is a CFD Postdoctoral Fellow at Bowdoin College. He is the author of (Re-)Defining Racism: A Philosophical Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

[**James E. Willis III**](/authors/james-e-willis-iii/) teaches at the University of Indianapolis. He has published numerous scholarly articles on ethics, philosophy, theology, and data analytics.

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            philosophy-of-religion

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            jacques-lacan

            hasidic-mysticism

            jewish-thought

            theological-ethics

            race-and-religion

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