Amy Adamczyk is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and in the Department of Criminal Justice at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research focuses on cross-national differences in attitudes about crime, deviance, and sexual morality, and the role of religious contexts for explaining delinquency and reproductive behaviors.

John W. Ayers is a Graduate Student in the Department of Political Science, San Diego State University, and Lecturer in the Department of Biology, University of San Diego. His study of American Muslims' voting preferences was published in The Review of Religious Research.

Allison Calhoun-Brown is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University. Her research on religion and politics in the African American community has been widely published in political science journals and books. She is co-author (with Kenneth D. Wald) of Religion and Politics in the United States, Fifth edition. She is currently working on a book that examines how the public role of African American churches has changed since the civil rights movement.

Francesco Cavatorta is a Lecturer in International Relations and Middle East Politics at Dublin City University (Ireland). He has published numerous articles on democratization in the Middle East and North Africa. His book on the Algerian transition is due out in 2009, and he is currently working on a project examining civil society in the Arab world.

Lan T. Chu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College. She studies political theory and the role of religious institutions in existing communist countries. Her recent work on the Catholic Church in Vietnam appears in the Journal of Vietnamese Studies.

Sue E.S. Crawford is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Creighton University and has published a variety of articles and chapters on religion and politics.

Melissa Deckman is an Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. She is the author of School Board Battles: The Christian Right in Local Politics and co-author of Women and Politics: Paths to Power and Political Influence.

Roger Finke is a Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at the Pennsylvania State University and is Director of the Association of Religion Data Archives (www.theARDA.com). He has published in numerous social science journals and has co-authored two award-winning books with Rodney Stark: Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion and The Churching of America, 1776–1990. He is now completing cross-national research on religious persecution and religiously motivated violence.

Mario T. García is a Professor of History and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of numerous books on Chicano history, including Católicos: Resistance and Affirmation in Chicano Catholic History.

Phillip W. Gray is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Hong Kong Baptist University, Department of Government and International Studies. In 2007, he published Being in the Just War: Ontology and the Decline of the Just War Tradition.

Mark David Hall is a Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Political Science at George Fox University. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Virginia. His primary research and writing interests lie in American political theory and religion and politics. He has published The Political and Legal Philosophy of James Wilson, 1742–1798 and numerous articles. He is also a recognized expert on church and state issues.

Shireen T. Hunter is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, where she is Director of the Carnegie Project on Reformist Islam. She is the author of seven books, three monographs, and 40 journal articles. Recent publications include Reformist Voices of Islam: Mediating Islam and Modernity and Islam and Human Rights: Advancing a US-Muslim Dialogue.

Ted G. Jelen is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has Published extensively in the area of religion and politics, and is currently the Co-Editor of Politics and Religion.

Michael Minkenberg is the 2007–09 Max Weber Chair for German and European Studies at New York University. He received his M.A. in american government from Georgetown University and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Heidelberg. He has taught at the universities of Göttingen and Heidelberg, at Cornell University and, most recently, at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). His research interests include the radical right in liberal democracies; immigration, nationalism and the politics of citizenship; and the relationship between religion and politics in Western societies. Among his book publications are The American Impasse, co-edited; Die neue radikale Rechte im Vergleich. USA, Frankreich, Deutschland; and Politik und Religion. PVS Special Issue 33/2002, co-edited. His articles have appeared in journals such as Comparative Politics, West European Politics, Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Political Research, and Comparative European Politics.

Laura R. Olson is a Professor of Political Science at Clemson University. Her research focuses on contemporary religion, civic engagement, and American politics. She is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of nine books, and her work has appeared in journals including Political Research Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. Collaborated in editing Women with a Mission: Religion, gender, and the Politics of Women Clergy; Co-edited Christian clergy in American politics.

Arvind Rajagopal is an Instructor in Media Studies at New York University, and is affiliated with the Departments of Sociology and Social and Cultural Analysis. He was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC in 2006–7. His book, Politics after Television won the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize from the Association of Asian Studies in 2003, as well as the Daniel Griffiths award from New York University.

C. Richard Hofstetter is a Professor of Political Science and Public Health, San Diego State University. He has published more than 200 scientific papers in political science, public health, public policy, and economics journals. He has been associated with $13 million worth of funded research awards. He is currently preparing a study on the effects of religious messages on the health and behavior of Korean Americans.

Jon A. Shields is An Assistant Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College. He is author of The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right and has written on Christian conservatives for Critical Review, Political Science Quarterly, and the Wilson Quarterly.

Kathleen Roberts Skerrett is an Associate Dean of the College and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Grinnell College. She teaches and writes at the intersection of Christian theology, political theory, and law. She is a Canadian citizen and holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

James Brewer Stewart is a James Wallace Professor of History at Macalester College. His teaching and research focus on the Western Hemisphere and the United States prior to the 20th century, emphasizing the topics of race, politics, law, and social movements. He also has an interest in comparative indigenous civilizations, processes of conquest, and labor systems in the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America. His books and articles address the abolitionist movement in the United States and the politics of the conflict over slavery and the struggles for racial justice.

Mehran Tamadonfar is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. He earned a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Colorado at Boulder and is an expert in comparative politics, international relations, and law (particularly the politics of developing systems, the Middle East, North Africa, and comparative legal systems).

John von Heyking is an Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. He is the author of Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World. He also co-edited volumes 7 and 8 of the Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, as well as Friendship and Politics: Essays in Political Thought.