Contributors of articles

Joel S. Fetzer is a Professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University and former Resident Director of the Pepperdine-in-China program. A specialist in migration studies, and religion and politics, he completed his A.B. in Government at Cornell University, his Ph.D. in Political Science at Yale University, and his Chinese language studies at the Taipei Language Institute and Chinese University of Hong Kong. His publications include Public Attitudes toward Immigration in the United States, France, and Germany and, with colleague J. Christopher Soper, Muslims and the State in Britain, France, and Germany.

Luis Felipe Mantilla is a Ph.D. Candidate at Georgetown University's Department of Government, where he works on religion and politics, political parties, social movements, and democratization in Latin America and the Middle East. He is also a Jill Hopper Memorial Fellow and a graduate researcher at Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.

Tamir Moustafa is an Associate Professor of International Studies and Jarislowsky Chair in Religion and Cultural Change at Simon Fraser University in Canada. His research stands at the intersection of comparative law and courts, religion and politics, and state-society relations, all with a regional focus on the Middle East.

Joyce Marie Mushaben is a Professor of Comparative Politics and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She has written extensively on the impact of generational change on East, West and multi-cultural identities in Germany. Her books include From Post-War to Post-Wall Generations: Changing Attitudes towards the National Question and NATO in the Federal Republic of Germany, and The Changing Faces of Citizenship: Integration and Mobilization among Ethnic Minorities in Germany.

Huib Pellikaan studied Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author (with Robert J. van der Veen) of Environmental Dilemmas and Policy Design, in which they analyzed the rational choice of individuals facing a problem of collective action. Recently, his research focuses on measuring the position of political parties in a supply side model of political space.

Sonia Sikka is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. Her primary research interests are in social and political philosophy, modern European philosophy, and philosophy of culture. She has written on Heidegger, Levinas, and Nietzsche, and on issues related to cultural identity and pluralism within the thought of J.G. Herder. More recently, she has been working on the construction of socio-cultural identities in Canada, the U.S. and India, with a focus on identities based on culture, religion or race.

Chris Soper is the Frank R. Seaver Professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. His most recent works include The Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Five Western Democracies, 2^nd ed., with Stephen Monsma and Muslims and the State in Britain, France, and Germany, with Joel Fetzer.

Nancy Wadsworth is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Denver. She specializes in intersections of race and religion in U.S. politics and is currently writing Ambivalent Miracles: Evangelical Racial Change Efforts in American Political Culture. Her co-edited volume, with Robin Jacobson, Faith and Race in American Political Life, is due out in 2010.

Contributors of book reviewers

Milan Babik holds a D.Phil. in International Relations from the University of Oxford and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in Government at Colby College. His research interests include the eschatological foundations of American liberal internationalism. His essays have appeared in History and Theory, Diplomatic History, and Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions.

Katie Day is the Charles A. Schieren Professor of Church and Society at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. Her research interests include urban religion, race and religion, and social movements. Her current research focuses on communities of faith as they navigate the economic, historical, cultural and political dynamics within the ecology of their urban context.

Mohammad Fadel is Canada Research Chair in the Law and Economics of Islamic Law at the University of Toronto School of Law. He has published numerous articles in Islamic legal history.

Jared A. Farley is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ohio University-Zanesville. His research focuses upon the political history and behaviors of white evangelicals and church/state issues in the United States. Recently he has worked to craft two annotated bibliographies of prominent Unitarian theologian James Luther Adams’ essays.

Robert Booth Fowler 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.

Mark M. Gray is a Research Assistant Professor at Georgetown University's Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), where he serves as the director of CARA Catholic Polls. He also has published research on elections, voter turnout, and political parties.

Kristen Deede Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of The Cross Roads Project at Hope College. Her publications include Theology, Political Theory, and Pluralism: Beyond Tolerance and Difference.

Ahmet T. Kuru is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University. He was the Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion at Columbia University. He is the author of Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey. In addition, his articles have appeared in World Politics, Comparative Politics, and Political Science Quarterly.

James M. Penning (1949–2010) was a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Social Research at Calvin College. An expert on American religion and politics, especially the Christian Right, Penning co-authored six books, including The Disappearing God Gap? and scores of articles and chapters.

Emile Perreau-Saussine is the author of an intellectual biography of Alasdair MacIntyre (Presses Universitaires de France, 2005), as well as of articles dedicated to Bossuet, Maistre, Leo Strauss, Raymond Aron and Carl Schmitt. His Catholic Political Thought in a Democratic age: A History is forthcoming, in translation, from Princeton University Press.

J. Peter Pham 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 a 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 is the author of over two hundred scholarly essays and reviews and the author, editor, or translator of over a dozen books.

Donald D. Schmeltekopf is currently Provost Emeritus and a Professor of Business Ethics at Baylor University. He was provost at Baylor from 1991–2003. He also served as a Project Director at the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the co-editor of four books, including The Future of Baptist Higher Education and The Baylor Project: Taking Christian Higher Education to the Next Level.

Brooke Sherrard is a Ph.D. student in American religious history at Florida State University. She is interested in the intersection of politics with evangelical religion throughout U.S. history with a secondary interest in Islamic traditions in the Americas. She is focusing her research on evangelical Americans’ interactions in the Middle East in the nineteenth century.

Mehran Tamadonfar is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. He 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.