Associate Professor Bagher Ghobary Bonab teaches and researches in the School of Education and Psychology at the University of Tehran.  His innovative research spans mental health issues of children and adolescents, relationships within families and communities, the understanding and measurement of Muslim spirituality and religiosity.  He is also interested in the associations between religiosity and mental health. He is the author of seven books and 59 published papers out of which 33 are related to religion and spirituality.  As a Persian Muslim scholar, Ghobary has published four translations from Arabic into Persian.  His strengths as a research leader and collaborator are evident in his supervisory role with 118 student theses and dissertations since 1993 and his participation in 21 collaborative research projects over the last 10 years.

Maureen Miner (M.Clin. Psych., PhD) is Chair of the University of Western Sydney Psychology and Spirituality Society.  A Senior Lecturer in psychology at UWS, Maureen both teaches and researches in the field of the Psychology of Religion/Spirituality, and supervises student theses in this area. She also consults as a clinical psychologist with clients having a religious worldview. In January, 2003 she was granted a three-year scholarship for research and collaboration through the John Templeton Oxford Seminars on Science and Christianity.  Current collaborative research projects include the antecedents of burnout and job satisfaction in church leaders; impact of attachment to God on psychological health; and the development of measures of Islamic attachment to God and spirituality.