Contributors of articles

Kraig Beyerlein is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. His work focuses on the intersection of religion and social movements/civic engagement and has appeared in such journals as the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Mobilization, and Social Forces.

April K. Clark is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of History and Political Science and Director of Survey Research at the Institute for Social and Policy Research at Purdue University Calumet.

Kimberly H. Conger teaches Political Science at Colorado State University. Her research and publications focus on religion, political activism, interest groups, and political parties in the US states.

Christopher J. Eberle is Professor of Philosophy at the United States Naval Academy. He is the author of Religious Conviction in Liberal Politics, as well as numerous articles in political philosophy, military ethics, and the philosophy of religion.

Marie A. Eisenstein is an Associate Professor of political science in the Department of History, Philosophy, Political Science and Religious Studies at Indiana University Northwest.

Markus Freitag is a Professor of Political Sociology and Director of the Institute of Political Science at the University of Bern. His research interests include direct democracy, social capital, tolerance, and political participation. Recent work has been published in Political Behavior, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Comparative Political Studies.

Sarah Allen Gershon is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University. Her research interests include political communication, gender, race, and ethnicity. She has published articles in the Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Political Communication, Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, Social Science Quarterly, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and the International Journal of Press/ Politics.

Yassine Khoudja is a PhD Candidate at Ercomer at Utrecht University. For his dissertation he examines the role of gender ideology, religiosity, and the welfare state for the labor market integration of immigrant women. His research interest also include the political and civic participation of Muslim immigrants in Europe.

Mieke Maliepaard is a Post-doctoral Researcher at Ercomer, Utrecht University. Her research interest is in the position of minorities in the Netherlands and other Western European countries, with a focus on religion and processes of identification, particularly among Muslims.

Borja Martinovic is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science/Ercomer at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on group identities, interethnic contacts and intergroup relations.

Bryan McLaughlin is a PhD Candidate in Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research explores the strategic use of social identity cues (e.g., religious, racial, partisan) by American politicians and the effect these cues have on political processes, such as voting behavior and political polarization.

Patrick Neal is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont, where he teaches courses in political theory. His primary research interests are liberal political theory and its critics, and religion and political theory.

Adrian D. Pantoja is a Professor of Political Studies at Pitzer College and a Senior Analyst for the Public Opinion Firm, Latino Decisions. He has published widely in the fields of Latino politics and immigration in academic journals, edited volumes, policy briefs and reports.

Carolin Rapp is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bern. Her research interests include tolerance research, moral politics, research on ethnic minorities, and youth unemployment. Recent work has been published in the Swiss Political Science Review and the European Political Science Review.

J. Benjamin Taylor is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, MA. He researches and publishes on political behavior and attitudes at the individual and state levels. His has previously published in Political Communication and State Politics & Policy Quarterly.

Richard Traunmüller is a Research Fellow in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. Before coming to Essex he was as a lecturer in Quantitative Political Sociology at the University of Berne and a postdoctoral fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research. His work has appeared in European Journal of Political Research, Political Studies, and Swiss Political Science Review, amongst others.

Adrian Vatter is a full Professor at the University of Bern. His research interests include political institutions, the study of empirical patterns of democracy, and Swiss politics. Recent work has been published in the European Journal of Political Research, British Journal of Political Science, and Political Behavior.

Maykel Verkuyten is a Professor in Interdisciplinary Social Science and Academic Director of the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (Ercomer) at Utrecht University. His research interest is in questions of identity and cultural diversity.

David Wise is a PhD student in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. His research examines the nature and effects of journalistic and strategic communication related to issues with political, scientific and religious dimensions.

Contributors of book reviews

Anne M. Blankenship is completing a book manuscript entitled Complicating the Civil Rights Movement: Christian Responses to the Incarceration of Japanese Americans as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. She received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Scott R. Erwin completed his doctorate in Theology from the University of Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship. He previously worked at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and the United States Department of Defense in Iraq.

J. Spencer Fluhman is an Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University, where he teaches American Religious History. His book, “A Peculiar People”: Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America, was published in 2012. He currently serves as editor of the Mormon Studies Review.

Gregory Freeland teaches and writes on Social Movements and Latin American/Caribbean Politics in the Department of Political Science at California Lutheran University. Most recently, he published “Negotiating Place, Space, and Borders: The New Sanctuary Movement” in Latino Studies and co-edited International Environmental Justice: Competing Claims and Perspectives.

R. Ward Holder is a Political Theologian, and Professor of Theology at Saint Anselm College. He has co-edited The American Election 2012: Contexts and Consequences, as well as authoring and editing works on John Calvin, early modern biblical interpretation, and Christian realism.

Peter B. Josephson is an Associate Professor of Politics at Saint Anselm College, where he also holds the Richard L. Bready Chair in Ethics, Economics, and the Common Good. He is the author of The Great Art of Government: Locke's Use of Consent, as well as works on politics and popular culture, and the writings of Henry Kissinger.

Tyler Roberts is a Professor of Religious Studies at Grinnell College. His most recent book is Encountering Religion: Responsibility and Criticism after Secularism.

Jerome A. Stone is a Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at William Rainey Harper College. He is the author of The Minimalist Vision of Transcendence and Religious Naturalism.