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Bakker**](/authors/justine-m-bakker/) is Assistant Professor of Comparative Religious Studies at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven (Belgium). Her published work focuses on the intersections of race and religion with special attention to a study of alternative and esoteric forms of religion in the African diaspora. [**Noel Boulting**](/authors/noel-boulting/) studied under Richard S Peters at the London Institute of Education to obtain his academic diploma in the Philosophy of Education and under David Hamlyn and Stuart Brown at Birkbeck College, London, to obtain his first degree in philosophy. He is author of On Interpretative Activity: A Peircian Approach to the Interpretation of Science, Technology and the Arts (Brill, 2006). [**Jerry Burkette**](/authors/jerry-burkette/) is a doctoral student at Virginia Tech University, where he obtained a master’s degree in philosophy and is employed as a philosophy and history instructor. Burkette also holds a master’s degree in International Relations from Salve Regina University. His research interests include political theory, applied ethics, utopian studies, cultural theory, alternative futures, metaethics, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and existentialism. [**Vinicius Marinho**](/authors/vinicius-marinho/) is a PhD student at the University of Chicago. He specializes in economic and racial inequality, production, liberation theology, and critical legal studies. [**Michael C. Raubach**](/authors/michael-c-raubach/) is a PhD candidate in theology at Aarhus University (Denmark). His research is funded by a fellowship from the ITN “History of Human Freedom and Human Dignity in Western Civilization Project”. He also holds master’s degrees from the University of Durham and the University of Glasgow. [**Jake Sirota**](/authors/jake-s-sirota/) is a master’s student at the University of Chicago, specializing in Divinity and Philosophy of Religion. He specializes in continental philosophy of religion, deconstruction and religion, religion and naturalism, phenomenology, modernity and dis/re-enchantment, queer issues, postcoloniality, and religion in the public sphere. [**Lenart Škof**](/authors/lenart-skof/) is Head of the Institute for Philosophical Studies at the Science and Research Centre (Koper, Slovenia) and Dean of Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis (Ljubljana, Slovenia). He recently published Antigone’s Sisters: On the Matrix of Love (SUNY Press, 2021) and coedited Atmospheres of Breathing (with Petri Berndtson; SUNY Press, 2018). © the author(s). Free to read; see the [copyright notice](/copyright/) for reuse terms. 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