John Morreall is Professor of Religious Studies at theCollege of William and Mary. He has published widely in thephilosophy of religion, and on the comic dimensions of worldreligions. His book Comedy, Tragedy, and Religion (1999) wonthe Choice Outstanding Academic Book 2000. He is also the author of Comic Relief: A Comprehensive Philosophy of Humor (2009),published by Wiley-Blackwell. Tamara Sonn is the Wm. R. Kenan Distinguished Professorof Humanities in the Department of Religious Studies at the Collegeof William and Mary. Her books include Comparing Religionsthrough Law: Judaism and Islam (with J. Neusner, 1999) andIslam: A Brief History, 2nd edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).She was senior editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Islam(2003), and associate editor of The Islamic World Past andPresent (2004). She is currently an editor of Oxford IslamicStudies Online, and of Encyclopedia of the Islamic World(2009). In addition, Sonn is editor-in-chief of OxfordBibliographies Online: Islamic Studies, and co-editor-in-chiefof Wiley-Blackwell's Religion Compass.