Dr. David Mason is Editor-in-Chief of Ecumenica, a journal that publishes scholarship on performance and religion. He is the author of The Performative Ground of Religion and Theatre (2019), Brigham Young: Sovereign in America (2014) and Theatre and Religion on Krishna’s Stage (2009). Dr. Mason has undertaken research on performance and religious practice in India as a Fulbright-Nehru Fellow, in 2001 and in 2022.