张践，男，汉族，1953年3月生。中国人民大学继续教育学院教授，国家宗教事务局特聘专家，国际儒学联合会副会长、教育传播普及委员会主任，尼山圣源书院院长，中国统一战线理论研究会甘肃民族宗教研究基地研究员。长期从事中国宗教史和中国哲学史的研究工作。出版著作：《中国宗教通史》（合著）、《中国古代政教关系史》（上下卷）、《中国历代民族宗教政策》《宗教·政治·民族》《民族宗教关系的社会理论考察》《儒学与中国宗教》《国学基础知识问答》《中庸读本》等20余种，发表《儒教与中国政治》《儒家宗教观的形成及其历史影响》等论文200多篇。

Zhang Jian, Professor of School of Continuing Education, Renmin University of China and a distinguished expert for the State Bureau of Religious Affairs. He has been engaged in the research on Chinese religious history and the history of Chinese philosophy for a long time. He has published more than 20 books, such as "Q&As on the Basic Knowledge of Chinese Culture" and "Readings on the Doctrine of the Mean", and more than 200 papers, such as "Confucianism and Chinese Politics" and "the Formation and Historical Influence of Confucian Religious Views".