Ira RifkinIra Rifkin is an award-winning journalist, author and educator specializing in religion issues, particularly relating to culture and globalization. A columnist for GetReligion.org, he is author of Spiritual Perspectives on Globalzation: Making Sense of Economic and Cultural Upheaval and editor of Spiritual Leaders Who Changed the World: The Essential Handbook to the Past Century of Religion (both SkyLight Paths). He has taught at the University of Maryland, College Park; American University; and the State University of New York at New Paltz; and has lectured widely at universities, conference centers, houses of worship and elsewhere around the United States. Read More Read Less