Prof. Giuseppe Giordan is a professor of sociology in the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education, and Applied Psychology at the University of Padova. His research interests include spirituality, religious pluralism, conversion, interfaith dialogue, Eastern Orthodoxy, and religious freedom. He has recently co-edited the volumes Religious Freedom: Social-Scientific Approaches (2021), Global Eastern Orthodoxy. Politics, Religion, and Human Rights (2020), Chinese Religions Going Global (2021), and Interreligious Dialogue: From Religion to Geopolitics (2019). He co-authored Sociology of Exorcism in Late Modernity (2018).