Judit Farkas is a cultural anthropologist. She specializes in researching ecological, social, and religious communities and movements. Since 2003, she has been teaching at the Department of European Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Pécs. She is a head teacher of the College of Sustainable Development at UP and the founder of the human ecology Master at UP. She is also the co-leader of the Environmental Humanities Research Group established at the University of Pécs, the first in Hungary to represent the new research field. In addition to scientific and educational activities, she considers dissemination of knowledge particularly important and regularly gives lectures to the wider public. She also considers this book a significant step in her work from this point of view.