Blair Alan Gadsby is a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Centre for Religious Studies (M.A., 1992) and is currently retired from the Maricopa Community College District and Arizona State University from teaching World Religions, Religion in America, Religion in the Modern World, among other courses. He is also writing a book about the religious pluralism on the East African coast in the city of Mombasa in Kenya, where he lived in the 1980s and since conducted numerous field trips documenting firsthand the multi-religious civic harmony that has been achieved in a dominantly Islamic region.