About the Author

Jay McDaniel is professor of religion at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. He is the author of Gandhi's Hope: Learning from Other Religions as a Path to Peace (Orbis 2005) and Living from the Center: Spirituality in an Age of Consumerism (Chalice 2000). McDaniel is director of New Horizons: Center for Study of World Religions and Science and the Steel Center for the Study of Religion and Philosophy, both of which are based at Hendrix College. Donna Bowman is assistant professor of interdisciplinary studies and the associate director of the Honors College at the University of Central Arkansas, and she is the author of The Divine Decision: A Process Doctrine of Election (WJK 2002).