Contributors of Articles

Kevin R. den Dulk is the Paul B. Henry Chair in Political Science and Director of the Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics at Calvin College. He received his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He specializes in the study of religion and politics with a focus on the role of religion in shaping civil society and democratic governance.

Todd Nicholas Fuist is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Illinois Wesleyan University. His research interests include religion, politics, identity, and sexuality, with a focus on how culture serves to motivate socio-political action. His work has been published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Qualitative Sociology, and Social Movement Studies.

Christopher W. Hale is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Alabama. His research interests include religion and politics, collective action, Latin American politics, ethnicity and violence, and agent-based modeling.

Robert J. Joustra is Associate Professor of Politics & International Studies at Redeemer University College, editorial fellow at The Review of Faith & International Affairs and a fellow at the D.C. think tank The Center for Public Justice. He is author most recently of The Religious Problem with Religious Freedom: Why Foreign Policy Needs Political Theology (Routledge, 2017).

Mikael L. Pelz is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Calvin College. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2009. His research focuses on state and federal education policies and the role of religion in shaping political attitudes among evangelical Protestants.

Madalena Meyer Resende (PhD LSE 2005) is Assistant Professor of Comparative European Politics at the NOVA University of Lisbon and senior researcher at the Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais (IPRI – NOVA University of Lisbon).

Peer Scheepers is a Professor of Comparative Methodology at the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Social Sciences of Radboud University. He is member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as of Academia Europeae. His research interests concern longitudinal changes and cross-national comparisons on indicators of social cohesion.

Paul Vermeer is an Assistant Professor of the Empirical Study of Religion and the Sociology of Religion at the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies of Radboud University. His current research focuses on religious socialization, secularization and evangelicalism.

Ann Wainscott is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Miami University. In 2017, she served as the American Academy of Religion Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. Her book, Bureaucratizing Islam: Morocco and the War on Terror, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017.

Contributors of Featured Review Essay

Joshua C. Wilson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Denver. He is the author of two books on legal activism and abortion politics with Stanford University Press—The Street Politics of Abortion (2013) and The New States of Abortion Politics (2016)—and his research focuses on the place of law in conservative movements.

Contributors of Book Reviews

Daniel L. Dreisbach is a Professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, D.C. His research interests include the intersection of religion, politics, and law in American public life. He is the author of Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Christopher S. Grenda is Editor of a forthcoming series on religion in American history with Lexington Books. He is co-editor of The Lively Experiment: Religious Toleration in America, from Roger Williams to the Present (2015), Profane: Sacrilegious Expression in a Multicultural Age (2014), and The First Prejudice: Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America (2011). His work has appeared in Religion and Politics, Journal of Law and Religion, Journal of Church and State, and The New Republic

Laura S. Hussey serves as Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Sondheim Public Affairs Scholars Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her primary research and teaching interests concern social policy issues and their politics, including the role of faith-based actors in these affairs.

Clint Jones earned his Ph.D. in 2013 in social and political philosophy. He teaches social and political as well as contemporary philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. His main research areas of critical social theory, environmental philosophy, and utopianism.

Nukhet A. Sandal is the Director of Global Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science at Ohio University. She is the author of Religious Leaders and Conflict Transformation (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Mary Segers is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers Newark and the author of 50 scholarly essays and seven books on religion and politics in the United States. Her current research is on religious freedom in American politics and society.