Silvia Battista is Associate Professor in Performance and Theater Studies at Liverpool Hope University, UK. Her research focuses on the intersection between visual art, performance and theater, particularly on the use of meditative, contemplative and ecstatic practices as creative and epistemological processes in performative cultural praxis.

David Mason is Associate Professor and the Editor-in-Chief of Ecumenica. For many years, he was a board member of the Association for Asian Performance. He is a founding member of the Performance and Religion working group of the International Federation for Theater Research.