The Centre for Civic Religious Literacy, Montreal, Canada ;W. Y. Alice Chan, PhD, is executive director and co-founder of the Centre for Civic Religious Literacy, a Canadian non-profit that promotes understanding about religious, spiritual, and secular peoples from an intersectional perspective. This interest began when she was a school teacher and witnessed religious bullying among her students. Today, with the Centre, she promotes religious literacy among different professions, sectors, and disciplines, including in education, law, social work, and environmental studies. In 2023, she was an invited panelist at the US Department of Education’s Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. In 2025, she was invited to the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s conference on interfaith dialogue in Rome. In 2026, she was a keynote speaker at a Helsinki conference about religious literacy and religious pluralism.

Department of Cultural Heritage: Archaeology, History of Art, Film and Music, University of Padua, Padua, Italy;Davide Tramarin is currently an Adjunct Professor of Medieval Art History at the University of Padua. He received his PhD in History, Criticism and Conservation of Cultural Heritage from the same university in 2020. From 2022 to 2026, he was a postdoctoral researcher within the ERC-funded project SenSArt (P.I. prof. Zuleika Murat), investigating the sensory dimensions of medieval sacred art and devotional practices. His research focuses on the intersections of art, architecture, liturgy, and religious experience in the Middle Ages and has been presented at numerous national and international conferences and disseminated through scholarly publications, including his monograph Il monastero e la città: architettura francescana femminile nell’Italia medievale (2021). He holds the Italian National Scientific Qualification for Associate Professor in Art History and was awarded the 2025 Young Investigator Award by the journal Religions.

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA;Richard G. Cowden, Ph.D., is a social-personality psychologist and Research Scientist with the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University and the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is interested in a wide range of psychological, social, and religious/spiritual dynamics that shape adaptive functioning, personal growth, and well-being. He has written and contributed to numerous scholarly articles, book chapters, and books that address various aspects of human flourishing in a wide range of populations. He is also involved in developing and disseminating interventions designed to promote human flourishing across various cultural contexts, including those focused on forgiveness.