Peninsular Malaysia Conference on Ecumenical and Interreligious Ministry October 10 & 11, 2009

William McNeece, M.A. is Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of  Behavioral Sciences at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He has written and lectured on contemporary religious movements in the United States.  He has also done ethnographic research as a part of the U.S. Department of Labor Youthwork Project.  He has been the treasurer of the Michigan Sociological Association and was on the editorial board of the Michigan Sociological  Review. His photography has been exhibited nationally and he has been the photographer for the Detroit Council of the Arts and the Detroit Recreation Department Summer Youth Art/Work Program.  Recently he printed Charles McGee's photographs for the exhibit "Seeing Seventy" at the Detroit Institute of Arts. He is the Director of Photography for the Pluralism project at the University of Michigan-Dearborn

Claude Jacobs, Ph.D. teaches anthropology in the Department of  Behavioral Sciences at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.  He is a member of the American Anthropological Association, the Anthropology of Religion Section of the AAA, the Association of Black Anthropologists, the American Academy of Religion, the Latin American Studies Association, and serves on the Planning Committee for the Muslim, Christian, Jewish Leadership Symposium sponsored by the National Conference for Community and Justice. He has written articles on African American religion and is co-author of The Spiritual Churches of New Orleans: Origins, Beliefs, and Rituals of an African American Religion.  He is the Director of the Pluralism Project at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.