Contributors of articles

PålKetil Botvar is a Research Associate at the KIFO Centre for Church Research in Oslo, Norway. He is the author of Religion uten kirke: Ikke-institusjonell religiøsitet i Norge, Storbrittania og Tyskland (Religion outside a Church: Non-institutionalized religiosity in Norway, Britain, and Germany), Gud og grønne skoger: En undersøkelse av sammenhenger mellom religiøsitet og miljøengasjement (God and green forests: A study of the relationship between religiosity and ecology), and Skjebnetro, selvutvikling og samfunnsengasjement: Den politiske betydningen av ulike former for religiøsitet blant norske velgere (Superstition, Self-development, and Engagement in Society: The political impact of different forms of religiosity among Norwegian voters). He has also contributed chapters to various edited collections and articles to various journals, among them the Nordic Journal of Religion and Society.

JonathanFox is an Associate Professor of Political Studies at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan Israel, director of the Religion and State Project, and a senior research fellow at the Begin-Sadat Institute for Strategic Studies. He has published several books and numerous articles on the intersection between religion and politics, conflict, ethnicity, and international relations. His most recent book is A World Survey of Religion and the State.

Emily R. Gill is the Caterpillar Professor of Political Science at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, where she has taught for 37 years. In addition to her book, Becoming Free: Autonomy and Diversity in the Liberal Polity, she has published a number of book chapters, as well as articles in political science, philosophy, and economics journals. A book co-edited with Gordon Babst and Jason Piereceson, Moral Argument, Religion, and Same-Sex Marriage: Advancing the Public Good. She is currently working on a book on same-sex marriage and the religion clauses of the First Amendment to the United State Constitution.

StevenKettell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy-Making: From the Gold Standard to the Euro and Dirty Politics? New Labour, British Democracy and the Invasion of Iraq. He is also a founder and co-Executive Editor of British Politics. His current research projects are centered on Britain's role in the “war on terror,” and on the relationship between politics and religion in the United Kingdom.

MarkLichbach is a Professor and Chair of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. He received a B.A. from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, an M.A. from Brown University, and a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University. A theorist interested in social choice and a comparativist interested in globalization, Lichbach explores the connections between collective action theories and political conflict as well as the connections between collective choice theories and democratic institutions. He is the author or editor of many books, including the award-winning The Rebel's Dilemma, and of numerous articles that have appeared in scholarly journals in political science, economics, and sociology.

Eric M. Uslaner is a Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland-College Park. He is the author of seven books and approximately 120 journal articles, and has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage and C. V. Starr Foundations, and the Embassy of Canada. He is the author of The Moral Foundations of Trust and Corruption, Inequality, and the Rule of Law: The Bulging Pocket Makes the Easy Life.

Contributors of book reviews

BrianRobertCalfano is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Missouri State University. His research interests include political behavior and religion and politics. His research appears in Political Research Quarterly, Political Behavior, Social Science Quarterly, Politics and Religion, and other outlets.

John F. Collins is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His first book, The Revolt of the Saints: Memory and Redemption in the Twilight of Brazilian “Racial Democracy,” is an ethnographic history of the making of a Brazilian cultural heritage center. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles. Since 2007, he has served as a review editor for the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology.

Sally N. Cummings teaches in the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews. Her principal research interests lie in the politics of identity and its relationship to security, and in regime transformation and the state. Her books include Kazakhstan: Power and the Elite, Oil, Transition and Security in Central Asia, and Power and Change in Central Asia.

Kevin R. DenDulk is an Associate Professor of Political Science and faculty fellow in the Honors College at Grand Valley State University. He is the co-author of Pews, Prayers, and Participation: Religion and Civic Responsibility in America and Religion and Politics in America.

James L. Guth is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science at Furman University. He received his B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is the co-author or co-editor of several books, including The Bully Pulpit: The Politics of Protestant Clergy, and his work has appeared in numerous scholarly journals and edited volumes.

Andrew R. Murphy is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. His most recent book is Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11.

J. PeterPham is an Associate Professor of Justice Studies, Political Science, and Africana Studies and director of the Nelson Institute for International and Public Affairs at James Madison University. He is also senior fellow for Africa Policy Studies at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and vice president of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa. He has published over two hundred scholarly essays and reviews and a dozen books.

Stephen C. Poulson is an Associate Professor of Sociology at James Madison University. Much of his academic work focuses on social movements in the Middle East. He recently published Social Movements in Twentieth-Century Iran: Culture, Ideology, and Mobilizing Frameworks.

SamerShehata is an Assistant Professor of Arab Politics at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. His research interests include Middle East politics and U.S. foreign policy, the political economy of the Middle East, and social class, labor and inequality. His work has appeared in publications including Middle East Policy and the International Journal of Middle East Studies.

Gregory A. Smith is a Research Fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in Washington, D.C., where he contributes to the Forum's public opinion research. He is author of Politics in the Parish: The Political Influence of Catholic Priests.

AnandEdwardSokhey is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research has appeared in leading journals including the American Journal of Political Science, American Politics Research, and Social Science Quarterly. His research interests include voting behavior, public opinion, religion and politics, and methodology.

Ryan G. Spurrier is a Graduate Student at Duke University Divinity School. He is a certified candidate preparing for ordination in the South Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church.

Ellis M. West is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond, where he teaches courses in political theory and American constitutional law/history. His primary area of interest is government and religion, and his scholarly publications, in the form of law review articles, focuses mainly on the religion clauses of the First Amendment.