Frank J. Lechner is Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory University in Atlanta. He has published numerous papers on global change, fundamentalism, secularization, and sociological theory. He is the co-editor, with L. van Vucht-Tijssen and J. Berting, of
The Search for Fundamentals (1995).
John Boli is Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory University. He has published extensively on global culture and organizations, education, citizenship, and state power and authority. His books include Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations Since 1875 (with George M. Thomas, 1999) and New Citizens for a New Society (1989).