Henry Rosemont was George B & Willma Reeves Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Liberal Arts at St. Mary's College of Maryland and has been a visiting professor at Brown University and Trinity University. He is the author of A Chinese Mirror (1991) and Rationality and Religious Experience (2001) and translator of The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation (1999).

Huston Smith is one of the preeminent religious scholars in the US today. He has taught religion and philosophy at the University of Colorado, Washington University in St. Louis, MIT, and Syracuse University. He is the author of The World's Religions (1991), Why Religion Matters (2001), and The Soul of Christianity (2005). Smith has been the subject of a five-part Bill Moyers documentary on PBS and his many films have won international awards.