Gavin Flood is Lecturer in Religious Studiesin the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, at the UniversityofWales in Lampeter. His research interests are in the areas of Indianphilosophy and religion, ritual and methodology. His publicationsinclude Body and Cosmology in Kasmir Sivasm (Mellen, 1993)and Mapping Invisible Worlds (Edinburgh University Press,1993), the latter as editor.
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Sefton Davies is an independent consultantand trainer specialising in management in education.  He is an associatetutor of the Universityof Bristol and at the Further Education StaffCollege, and his clients include the Universityof Wales, Harvard University,Research Triangle Institute and a number of local authorities andcolleges of further education.  He also works extensively in thirdworld countries including Pakistan, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Malaysia. He is married to Ann and has three children, including his daughter,Kesava Devi Dasi.
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Suhotra Swami is a disciple of SrilaPrabhupada, having received initiation from him in 1972.  He acceptedthe order of sannyasa in 1983 and became a member of ISKCON'sGoverning Body Commission (GBC) in 1991.  Since joining ISKCON hehas spent much of his time lecturing and teaching in Europe, especiallyin Germany, although his present GBC duties require him tospend more time in Eastern Europe.
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Kim Knott is a Senior Lecturer inReligious Studies at the University of Leeds.  She is author of twobooks (including My Sweet Lord: The Hare Krishna Movement 1986)and a number of articles on contemporary Hindu movements in Diaspora.She is also director of the Community Religions Project in Leeds,which publishes and encourages research on minority religions in theUK.  In recent years her research and writing has focused on womenin religions, and she is currently preparing for publication a cross-culturalstudy on women and destiny.
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John J. Saliba, S.J. has been a Jesuitpriest for thirty years, and since 1987 has been Professor of ReligiousStudies at the University of Detroit Mercy, where he has taughtsince 1970. He was involved in a recent compilation of a three-yearstudy of new religious movements conducted for the Vatican by theInternational Federation of Catholic Universities.  He is best knownfor two major bibliographies on the new religious movements: Psychiatryand the Cults: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland, 1987)and Social Science and the Cults: An Annotated Bibliography(Garland, 1990). He has also recently published Perspectivesin New Religious Movements (Geoffrey Chapman, 1995).
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Charles R. Brooks is author ofHare Krishnas in India (Princeton University Press, 1989). He is currently teaching Indian Religions at Fashion Institute inNew York, as well as Anthropology at City University of New York. His special area of study is mystical experiences in the Hare Krishnamovement, especially as practised in New York.
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Rasamandala Dasa joined ISKCON atBhaktivedanta Manor in 1973 and was initiated by Srila Prabhupada.He is currently the National Monitor for Training and Educationin the British yatra and is an active member for the VTE (VaishnavaTraining and Education). He is also Director of ISKCON EducationalServices, which oversees the Society's interaction with schoolsand colleges in the UK.
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