Darrell J. Fasching is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida where he has previously served as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and as Chair of the Department of Religious Studies.

He is the author of Narrative Theology After Auschwitz: From Alienation to Ethics (1992), The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima (1993) and The Coming of the Millennium (1996). His areas of scholarship and teaching focus on comparative religious ethics, post-Holocaust ethics, and religion, ethics and public policy.

Dell deChant is Instructor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Religious Studies at the University of South Florida where he has taught since 1996. His areas of specialization include Religion and Popular Culture, Ethics, and New Religious Movements. He is the Editor of the Journal of the Society for the Study of Metaphysical Religions.

He has published articles on subjects of his interest and specialization in The Dictionary of Christianity in America; The New Age Encyclopedia; The Journal of the Society for the Study of Metaphysical Religion; and periodicals such as The Quest, The International New Thought Alliance Quarterly, and Dialogue & Distinction.