Adriaan van Klinken is Professor of Religion and African Studies at the University of Leeds, and Extraordinary Professor in the Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice at the University of the Western Cape. He also is a 2024 Research Fellow in the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in South Africa. His research explores the intersections of religion, culture, and society in contemporary Africa. His publications include the book Kenyan, Christian, Queer (Penn State University Press), and the article ‘Wangari Maathai’s Environmental Bible’ (Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, (2020), 8(3): 156–75).

Simon Manda is lecturer in Global Development in the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. His research includes work on climate change risks, environment and development, land politics and agrarian studies. Simon’s current research integrates citizen science in policy practice. He recently co-authored People or Property: Legal Contradictions, Climate Resettlement, and the View from Shifting Ground, and authored ‘Seeing Like the State? Customary Land Pressures and Fracturing Tenure Systems in Rural Zambia’ (with L. Banda, Land Use Policy, (2020), 132: 106833).

Damaris Parsitau is Associate Professor of Religion and Gender, and the Director of the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity, at Calvin University, Grand Rapids, USA. She is also a Professor Extraordinaire at the University of South Africa and the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. Her research interests include Pentecostal/Evangelical churches and their intersections with gender, politics, civic and public engagement, and sexuality. She recently co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Megachurches (2022).

Abel Ugba is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds. His research interests cover migration, media, and religion and the nexus between them. His recent publications include the chapters ‘Europe’ in The Routledge Handbook of Megachurches (2022) and ‘Migrant Religions and the Irish State’ in The Study of Religions in Ireland – Past, Present and Future (B. McNamara & H O’Brien (2022), Bloomsbury).