Born in Venezuela (1945), Otto Maduro is a Roman Catholic sociologist and philosopher of religion. Married to Dr. Nancy Noguera, they are parents to Mateo (born 1995). Since 1992 Professor of World Christianity at Drew University -- where he chairs the Religion & Society Area in Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, and co-chairs both its Hispanic Institute of Theology and its Hispanic Doctorate of Ministry Program. He has two M.A.s and a Ph.D., both magna cum laude, from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). He has been Visiting Professor, among others, at the USC School of Religion, Maryknoll School of Theology, Union Theological Seminary, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Notre Dame, Candler School of Theology, and his alma mater in Louvain, too. He has over a hundred articles published in a dozen languages in journals of five continents, and five books in five languages (one, Marxismo y Religión, was Best Essay of the Year, 1977-1978, in Venezuela; another, Mapas para la Fiesta, is his last and has been published once in Portuguese and in five Spanish editions, including one by AETH in 1999 in Decatur, GA); his books in English include Religion and Social Conflicts (Orbis 1982; also in German, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish), and the edited volumes Judaism, Christianity, and Liberation (Orbis 1991), The Future of Liberation Theology (Orbis 1989), and Expanding the View (Orbis 1990). He is currently associate editor of the journals Cristianismo y Sociedad, Concilium, SIC, Liaisons Internationales, Maiêutica, and the Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology; formerly, he was associate editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Social Compass, and the Journal of Contemporary Religion. He is a council member of PARAL (Program for the Analysis of Religion Among Latinos), and formerly, of the SSSR (Society for the Scientific Study of Religion), and the ASR (Association for the Sociology of Religion). In 1997 he was given the Will Herberg Distinguished Professor Award by the Graduate Students' Association of Drew University. In 2003-2004 he was the H. Paul Douglass Lecturer at the Annual Meeting of the Religious Research Association (Norfolk, VA). He is directing and involved in a field research project on Latina/o Pentecostal congregations in Newark, New Jersey.