Contributors of articles

Adrian U-Jin Ang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University.

Guy Ben-Porat is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Public Policy and Administration, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.

Anna Christmann is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her research interests include direct democracy, legitimacy of new governance structures and comparative democracy studies in general. Her doctoral thesis, published in spring 2012, compares the judicial review of popular initiatives in Switzerland and California.

Deniz Danaci has worked as a research associate at the Department of Political Science at the University of Berne. After having accomplished his PhD theses he now teaches at the University of Zurich regarding the effects of direct democracy on politics, economics and society.

Mohammad Fadel is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He specializes in the history of Islamic law and theology, and his current research interests focus on intersections between Islam and political liberalism.

Troy Gibson is an Associate Professor of Political Science, International Development and International Affairs, at The University of Southern Mississippi. His research interests include Religion and Politics, Political Theology, Public Policy, and American Political Behavior.

Christopher Hare is a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia. His research interests include political behavior, religion and politics, and measurement theory.

John R. Petrocik is Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science, University of Missouri.

Omri Shamir is a Ph.D. student and teaches at the department of Public Policy and Administration, Guilford Glazer School of Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Paul Stock is a Lecturer in Sociology and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Sustainability at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. His current work broadly focuses on the cultural and environmental aspects of agriculture with specific projects on the Catholic Worker movement, New Zealand and global food systems. Along with Christopher Rosin and Hugh Campbell, he is an editor and contributor to the new book Food Systems Failure.

Andrei Sõtšov (Андрей Сычёв in Russian) is a Research Fellow of Church History at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He earned his Ph.D. in theology from the University of Tartu in 2008, with a dissertation on “The Estonian Orthodox Eparchy under the Influence of the Soviet Religious Policies in 1954–1964.” He is also (since 2002) a chaplain in the Estonian Defense Forces. He is the author of Eesti õigeusu piiskopkond Stalini ajal aastail 1945–1953 (The Estonian Orthodox Diocese under Stalinist Regime 1945–1953) and of Eesti õigeusu piiskopkond nõukogude religioonipoliitika mõjuväljas 1954–1964 (The Estonian Orthodox Eparchy under the Influence of the Soviet Religious Policies in 1954–1964). He has also contributed articles to various scholarly journals and anthologies. Presently he is a postdoctoral researcher in the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.

Contributors of book reviews

Noah R. Eber-Schmid is a PhD candidate studying political theory and international relations in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His current research is in political theology, the history of democratic theory, liberalism and its critics, and contemporary political thought.

C. Christine Fair is an Assistant Professor in Georgetown University's Center for Peace and Security Studies. She is a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Studies Association, and serves on the editorial boards of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, the Journal of Strategic Studies, and Current History.

Philip S. Gorski is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the MacMillan Initiative on Religion, Politics and Society at Yale University. He is currently completing a book on American civil religion

Kate Graney is an Associate Professor of Government at Skidmore College. She has published on various aspects of religion and ethnicity in the Russian Federation, particularly regarding the phenomena of "Euro Islam" in the Russian state of Tatarstan. She is the author of Of Khans and Kremlins: Tatarstan and the Future of Ethnofederalism in Russia.

Mark Hulsether is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, with special interests in the interplay of religion and social issues in recent United States history. He has published widely on the religious left in the US since the 1940s, popular religion, and theory and method in the study of religion. His most recent book is Religion, Culture, and Politics in the Twentieth Century United States.

Murray Jardine is a Professor of Political Science at Auburn University. His field is political philosophy. He completed his Ph.D. at Duke University in 1992. His publications include Speech and Political Practice and The Making and Unmaking of Technological Society.

Pauletta Otis is a Professor of Security Studies at the Command and Staff College, Marine Corps University. She has presented briefings and organized meetings on the subject of religious and cultural factors in warfare for U.S. military and government services. She served on the Defense Intelligence Advisory Board, the Defense Science Policy Board Summer Study on Homeland Security and DSB Future War panel, and works with the Center for Religion and Diplomacy, the Institute for Global Engagement, and the US Military Chaplains.

Mehmet Ozkan is a Ph.D. candidate at Sevilla University, Spain. His interests include religion and politics, rising powers, and transnational networks. He is the author of Foreign Policy after Tahrir Revolution as well as articles in the Journal of Modern African Studies, Perceptions, Review of African Political Economy, Insight Turkey, the Journal of International Development, Strategic Analysis, and the Journal of Global Analysis.

Robert Postic is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of Research and Program Development in the Social, Behavioral, and Justice Sciences Department at the University of Findlay. His areas of expertise include the intersection of religion and politics, especially as they relate to the formation of public opinion.

Rachel M. Scott is an Associate Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech. Her book, The Challenge of Political Islam: Non-Muslims and the Egyptian State.

Andrew Singleton is a Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Program at Monash University, Australia. His research interests in the sociology of religion include secularization, youth religion, and alternative religions. He is co-author of the book The Spirit of Generation Y: Young people's spirituality in a changing Australia.

J. David Woodard is the J. Strom Thurmond Professor of Political Science at Clemson University. He is the author of seven books, including The Conservative Tradition in America and The America that Reagan Built.