Dr. William Cenkner, a historian of religions with specialization
in India and early China, is Professor of Religion at The
Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. He is the
former Dean of the School of Religious Studies at the same
university. For the past thirty years he has written extensively
on classical and modern themes in Hinduism, for example. The
Hindu Personality in Education: Gandhi, Tagore, Aurobindo, and A
Tradition of Teachers: Sankara and the Jagadgurus Today. His
interests extend to interreligious, intercultural and ecumenical
relationships. He has recently edited The Multicultural Church:
A New Landscape in U.S. Theologies, and as a result of a 1993
IRFWP conference, Evil and the Response of World Religions, soon
to appear. He serves on the board of the American Conference
on Religious Movements, dealing with human rights for minor-
ity religions. Dr. Cenkner is a member of IRFWP Presiding
Council.

Mr. Michael Cromartie is a senior fellow in Protestant Studies
and the director of the Evangelical Studies Project at the Ethics
and Public Policy Center, a research "think tank" in Wash-
ington, D.C. The Ethics and Public Policy Center was estab-
lished in 1976 to clarify and reinforce the bond between the
Judeo-Christian moral tradition and domestic and foreign
policy issues. Mr. Cromartie has contributed book reviews and
articles to First Things, Crisis, The Washington Times, The Reformed
Journal, Insight, Christianity Today, Stewardship Journal, World,
and The Presbyterian Journal. He is the co-editor, with Richard John Neuhaus
, of Piety and Politics: Evangelicals and Funda-
mentalists Confront the World ( 1987; now in its fifth printing).
Eternity magazine named Piety and Politics one of the twenty-five

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