Contributors of Articles

Arolda Elbasani is Jean Monnet Fellow and Research Associate at the ReligioWest project, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), Florence. Her research interests lay at the intersection of Islamic politics, EU foreign policy and comparative democratization with a focus on Southeast Europe and Turkey.

Sergej Flere holds a degree in Law from the University of Belgrade (Serbia) and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Zagreb (Croatia). He is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Maribor (Slovenia). Previously, he taught sociology at the University of Novi Sad (Serbia). He has conducted extensive research on religion (also from the psychological point of view), ethnicity and other sociological and political science subjects.

Turan Kayaoglu is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington Tacoma. He is the author of Legal Imperialism: Sovereignty and Extraterritoriality in Japan, the Ottoman Empire, and China and The Organization of Islamic Cooperation: Politics, Problem, and Potential. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Muslim World Journal of Human Rights.

Miran Lavrič is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Maribor. He specializes in cross-cultural studies in the area of religiosity and in methodology of social research. He has published number of articles dealing with issues like religious motivation and the relationship between church and state, mostly with regard to European post-socialist societies.

Niall McKay is an Australian Researcher interested in the connections between liberation, the Bible and resistant politics. Niall's work draws upon the often-untapped theoretical potential of Marxist literary criticism and he is excited by the prospect of deeper collaboration between biblical scholars and this tradition. Niall is completing a doctoral project at The University of Newcastle (Australia) and maintains a connection to South Africa as a Research Associate at The University of Stellenbosch.

Kathleen A. Montgomery is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Illinois Wesleyan University. She has authored articles on post-communist politics, Hungarian politics, gender politics, and the populist radical right. She is co-editor of Women's Access to Power in Post-Communist Europe.

Karrie J. Koesel is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon and the author of Religion and Authoritarianism: Cooperation, Conflict, and the Consequences. She will be joining the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame in the Fall 2015.

Nikola Mirilovic an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Central Florida. His research interests include immigration and diaspora politics and the role of ideology and religion in international relations. His research has been published in Comparative Politics and in the International Political Science Review.

David S. Siroky is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. He studies ethnic conflict, separatism, religion, nationalism and methodology, and his research has been published or is forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Sociology, Defence and Peace Economics, Democratization, Ethnopolitics, International Organization, Nationalities Papers, Polity, Post-Soviet Affairs, Security Studies, Social Science Quarterly, Statistics Surveys, and the Yale Journal of International Affairs.

Leonardo A. Villalón is Professor of African Politics and Dean of the International Center at the University of Florida, where he also coordinates the interdisciplinary Sahel Research Group. His research has focused on religion and politics across the Francophone countries of the Sahelian region, especially Senegal, Mali, Niger, as well as Mauritania, Burkina Faso, and Chad.

Ryan Winter is a recent graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University where he conducted the current research under the auspices of a 2013 Robert S. and Nell B. Eckley Summer Scholars and Artists Summer Fellowship. He is currently employed at a private political consulting firm in Washington, DC.

Contributors of Book Reviews

Brian Calfano is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Missouri State University. In 2013, he became policy advisor for the City of Los Angeles Human Relations Commission. He is co-author (with Paul A. Djupe) of God Talk: Experimenting with the Religious Causes of Public Opinion and editor of Assessing MENA Political Reform, Post-Arab Spring: Mediators and Microfoundations.

Varsha Chitnis is a Lecturer in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. She has a Ph.D. in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies from The Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the M. S. University of Baroda. Her present research explores the relationship between domesticity and the hierarchies of gender and caste in India.

Peter Cumper is a Professor of Law at the University of Leicester, England, where he undertakes research in the field human rights law, with particular reference to law and religion.

Robert Erlewine is an Associate Professor of Religion at Illinois Wesleyan University. He is the author of Monotheism and Tolerance: Recovering a Religion of Reason and several articles on modern Jewish thought.

Paula Guzzo Falci is a PhD candidate at the School of International Studies, University of Trento (Italy).

Christopher S. Grenda is Professor Of History at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York. He is co-editor of The Lively Experiment: Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present, Profane: Sacrilegious Expression in a Multicultural Age, and The First Prejudice: Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America.

Eric C. Miller is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on religious participation in the public square, with special attention to conservative Christian political activism.

Lynita K. Newswander is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Dakota. Her research includes work in administrative ethics and politics and religion in the United States.

Christopher Taylor is a Retired Professor of Anthropology and independent scholar who has written extensively on Rwanda.

Leslie Woodcock Tentler is an Emerita Professor of History at The Catholic University of America. She is the author of Catholics and Contraception: An American History.