Contributors of articles

Yasemin Akbaba is an Associate Professor at Gettysburg College. Her research interests are ethnic and religious conflict, foreign policy, and Turkish politics.

Susana Aguilar is a Senior Reader at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) and has been a visiting teacher at the Universities of Helsinki (Finland) and La Paz (Bolivia). Her research focuses on interest groups, social movements, environmental policy and sustainable development in the European Union.

Gamze Çavdar is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Colorado State University. Her research interests are non-violent Islamist groups in the Middle East, ideological moderation, and gender and politics.

Wen-Chun Chang is a Professor at the Department of Public Finance, National Taipei University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Ingemar Elander is Professor of Politics at Örebro University, Sweden. His research interests cover urban governance in a broad sense as exemplified in publications on cities and climate change, environment and democracy, faith-based organizations and social exclusion in European cities, urban partnerships and public health. He is currently involved in a research project on sustainable development and neighborhood renewal.

Charlotte Fridolfsson is a Ph.D. researcher and lecturer at Linköping University, Sweden. She teaches graduate level and undergraduate courses in political science and gender studies. Her research interests include political theory, new social movements, gender politics and cultural studies. She is at presently involved in a interdisciplinary research project, Educational Pathways to Power, about the formal and informal education/learning among Swedish politicians.

Minion Kenneth Chauncey Morrison is a Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration and Senior Associate in African American Studies at Mississippi State University. His research and publications have appeared in the fields of Comparative and American politics.

Ryan J. Rebe is an Attorney and Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. He teaches classes in American government and judicial process.

Ani Sarkissian is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University. She has published articles on religious regulations and the relationship between religion and political behavior. She is currently authoring a book on the strategic use of religious regulations in authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes.

Zan Strabac is an Associate Professor at Trondheim Business School. His main areas of research are quantitative methods, sociology of migration and ethnic relations, peace studies and media studies. He has several scientific publications focusing on countries of the former Yugoslavia.

Zeynep Taydas is an Associate Professor of political science at Clemson University. Her research interests are in the areas of civil conflict, foreign policy, religion, ethnicity and public opinion.

Marko Valenta is an Associate Professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His research interests are ethnic relations, sociology of migration and social work with asylum seekers, immigrants and refugees.

Contributors of book reviews

Simeon Evstatiev is an Associate Professor of Islamic History at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. His most recent monograph is Religion and Politics in the Arab World: Islam in Society. His main areas of interest and publications are Islamic intellectual and political currents, and revivalist and ‘societal’ Islam in the Middle East and the Balkans.

Peter Brickey LeQuire recently completed a Ph.D. in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, with a dissertation on the political theory of Eric Voegelin. He is currently Lecturer in the Core Curriculum at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama.

Anastasia Mitrofanova is a Professor at the Diplomatic Academy of the Foreign Affairs Ministry of the Russian Federation. Her research interests include religious politicization, Orthodox Christianity and politics, nationalism, and religio-political movements. Her main publications include Politizatsiia ‘pravoslavnogo mira’; The Politicization of Russian Orthodoxy: Actors and Ideas.

Michael MacLeod is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of International Studies at George Fox University, Oregon. His research focuses on the evolution of global governance and the influence of faith-based activism in the global economy.

Winnifred Fallers Sullivan is a Professor and Chair, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University Bloomington. She is the author of Paying the Words Extra: Religious Discourse in the Supreme Court of the United States, The Impossibility of Religious Freedom, and Prison Religion: Faith-based Reform and the Constitution.

Caryn D. Riswold is an Associate Professor of Religion and Chair of Gender and Women's Studies at Illinois College, in Jacksonville, Illinois. Her most recent books include Two Reformers: Martin Luther and Mary Daly as Political Theologians and Feminism and Christianity: Questions and Answers in the Third Wave. She serves on the editorial board of the international journal Political Theology.