Florence Pasche Guignard is a professor in the study of religions at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada. Her research explores the intersection of religions with gender, women's history, motherhood, ritual, and material culture.

Pascale Engelmajer is a professor of religious studies at Carroll University. She researches and publishes widely on Buddhism, with a focus on ancient Buddhist conceptualizations of motherhood and mothering.

Sucharita Sarkar is a professor of English at D.T.S.S. College of Commerce, Mumbai, a member of the Board of Studies in English at the University of Mumbai, and an invited member of the Faculty of Humanities at Dr. Homi Bhabha State University, Mumbai. Her doctoral thesis investigated mothering narratives in contemporary India.

Giulia Pedrucci is a researcher in the history of religions and classical archaeology, holding degrees from the Universities of Bologna and Parma and a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology of the Ancient World from the University of Siena. Currently a postdoctoral fellow at Comenius University in Bratislava, she investigates the religious dimensions of motherhood in ancient Mediterranean societies.