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Kim Skjoldager-Nielsen is a Danish doctoral fellow in theatre studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. He is former coeditor of the journal Nordic Theatre Studies and the current president of the Association of Nordic Theatre Scholars. Since 2010, he is a member of the Norwegian-based research network Aesthetics, Natural Sciences and Theology under the governmentally supported research area Religion in Pluralistic Society. With the International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR) he serves as founding co-convener of the working group Performance and Religion. Among other subjects, he has published on theatre and ritual, performativity, spirituality, and religion in research anthologies and in journals including Performance Research and Kritisk forum for praktisk teologi.

Joshua Edelman teaches theatre and performance at Birkbeck, University of London, and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where he writes on the intersections between theatre sociology, religious practice, and political struggles in the contemporary West. He received his PhD in theatre from Trinity College, Dublin in 2010. He is a member of the Project on European Theatre Systems, works with the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts at the University of St Andrews, and is founding co-convener of Performance and Religion Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research. He is the co-editor of Performing Religion in Public (Palgrave 2013), and his articles have appeared in journals including Performance Research, Nordic Theatre Studies, and Liturgy.