Contributors of articles

Kimberly H. Conger is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Iowa State University. Her articles have appeared in Perspectives on Politics and Political Psychology and her book, The Christian Right in Republican State Politics, was recently published. She is the current the chair of the Religion and Politics section of the American Political Science Association.

Paul A. Djupe is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Denison University, Granville, Ohio. His work has appeared in such journals as American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, and Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. He is also the coauthor of several books, the most recent of which is The Political Influence of Church.

Michael D. Driessen is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. He is currently writing his dissertation on the role that public religions play during periods of democratization and is employing a multi-disciplinary method to broach the subject. His case-work focuses on the patterns of religious-democratic change in the Mediterranean, and he has just returned from 15 months of research abroad in Italy, France, and Algeria.

Brian J. Grim is a Senior Researcher in Religion and World Affairs at the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life, Washington, DC. He also co-manages the international religious demography project at Boston University's Center for Culture, Religion and World Affairs. His work has appeared in the American Sociological Review and other journals. His most recent book (with Todd M. Johnson) is World Religion Database: International Religious Demographics and Sources.

Kees vanKersbergen is a Professor of Political Science at VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His work has appeared in such journals as European Journal of Political Research, Journal of Common Market Studies, European Journal of International Relations and Journal of Theoretical Politics. His most recent book, co-edited with Philip Manow, is Religion, Class Coalitions, and Welfare States. He is editor of Acta Politica.

Nathaniel J. Klemp is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California. His work has appeared in Polity and Outlines, and he co-authored a chapter (with Stephen Macedo) for Evangelicals and American Democracy, edited by Stephen Brint and Jean Schroedel.

Franklyn C. Niles is an Associate Professor of Political Science at John Brown University, Siloam Springs, Arkansas. His published work has appeared in journals and edited volumes, including Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Political Perspectives, and The Constitutionalism of American States. He is the former chair and executive board member of the Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.

AaronTyler is the Chair of the Graduate International Relations Department at St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas. His work has appeared in such journals as UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law, Journal of Church and State, and International Journal of Christianity and Social Work. He is also the author of Islam, the West, and Tolerance: Conceiving Coexistence.

RichardWike is an Associate Director of the Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project, Washington, DC. He is a political scientist and his work has appeared in journals such as Journal of Politics, Social Science Quarterly, Polity, The National Interest, and Harvard International Review, and contributed a chapter to Muslims in Western Politics, edited by Abdulkader H. Sinno, among other publications.

Contributors of book reviews

LouisBolce teaches at Baruch College, City University of New York. His research interests include public opinion and religion and politics. His work has appeared in Public Opinion Quarterly, American Politics Research, The Public Interest, First Things, among others.

Mark D. Brewer is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Maine. He is the author of Relevant No More? The Catholic/Protestant Divide in American Electoral Politics, co-author of Diverging Parties, Split: Class and Cultural Divides in American Politics, and Parties and Elections in America, 5^th edition, and has published articles in Political Research Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

JohnFrancisBurke is a Professor of Political Science at the University of St. Thomas – Houston, Texas. Author of Mestizo Democracy: The Politics of Crossing Borders, his scholarly articles on contemporary and comparative political theory, Latino issues, multicultural relations, and religion and politics have appeared in journals such as The Review of Politics, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Concilium, and Commonweal.

PatrickCallahan earned his B.A. and M.A. at Northern Illinois University and his Ph.D. in political science in 1975 at The Ohio State University. He has been a member of the faculty at DePaul University since 1975. He is the author of The Logics of American Foreign Policy.

JoeCreech is Program Director of the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts and is an Adjunct Associate Professor of History and Humanities at Christ College, the honors college of Valparaiso University. Creech (Ph.D., History, University of Notre Dame) specializes in American cultural, political, and religious history. In 2005 he was named one of the notable “Young Scholars in American Religion” by the Center for the Study of American Religion and Culture, and he is the author of Righteous Indignation: Religion and the Populist Revolution in North Carolina.

RobertBoothFowler is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. An award-winning teacher, he is the author of numerous books, including The Dance with Community, Enduring Liberalism: American Political Thought since the 1960s, and Wisconsin Votes.

LynneGerber is a Research Fellow with the Religion, Politics and Globalization Program at the University of California, Berkeley. Her current work focuses on evangelical Christian weight loss programs and ex-gay ministries.

Rolin G. Mainuddin is an Associate Professor of Political Science at North Carolina Central University. His research interests are in political Islam and international security. A former associate editor for the Journal of Third World Studies, Mainuddin edited a book, Religion and Politics in the Developing World: Explosive Interactions.

Rachel M. McCleary is a Senior Research Fellow, Taubman Center, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and Research Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. She conducts research on the political economy of religion. She is editor of the Oxford University Press Handbook of the Economics of Religion and author of three additional books.

Daniel C. Palm is a Professor of Political Science at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California, where he teaches courses in International Relations, Comparative Politics, and Terrorism. He is also a Claremont Institute Senior Fellow and contributing editor of On Faith and Free Government.

Michael S. Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. He teaches Religion & Politics, Race & Politics, and Public Policy. Recent scholarly activities include reviews of Sen. Danforth's Faith & Politics and Mark Hulliung's The Social Contract in America, and entries in the Encyclopedia of African American History on the Civil Rights Acts of 1875, 1957, 1960, and 1964.

Sharon A. Suh is an Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Seattle University. She is the author of Being Buddhist in a Christian World: Gender and Community in a Korean American Temple.

Angelia R. Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. Her publications include Below the Belt: Sexuality, Religion & the American South, Activating Theory, A Simple Matter of Justice? and forthcoming Why Europe is ‘gay friendly’ (and why America never will be) as well as articles in Contemporary Politics, Politics & Gender, Critical Social Policy, Sexualities, and Culture, Health and Sexuality.

JonathanWoolfson is Academic Director of the Istituto Lorenzo de'Medici, Florence. He is the author of Padua and the Tudors: English Students in Italy, 1485–1603 (University of Toronto Press, 1998) and the editor of Reassessing Tudor Humanism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) and Palgrave Advances in Renaissance Historiography.