Contributors of Articles

Paul A. Djupe, Denison University Political Science, is the editor of the Religious Engagement in Democratic Politics series with Temple University Press, an affiliated scholar with PRRI, and the editor of Religion and Political Tolerance: in America Advances in the State of the Art (2015, Temple).

Ted G. Jelen is a Professor of Political Science at UNLV. He has published numerous articles and books on abortion politics, church-state relations, and religion and politics.

Michael Kalin is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Yale University and a research fellow at the University of Denver. His research focuses on the politics of religion, peace-building, and prejudice mitigation strategies.

Christopher F. Karpowitz (PhD, Princeton University 2006) teaches political science and is the co-director of the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy at Brigham Young University. His research interests include political psychology and political communication, and he is the co-author of The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions (Princeton University Press, 2014) and Deliberation, Democracy, and Civic Forums (Cambridge University Press, 2014).

Austin Knuppe is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the Ohio State University. With concentrations in international relations and political methodology, his research interests include the evolution of military doctrine, American grand strategy, and the study of religion in international politics. He was also a Robert Bosch Fellow in Berlin working in policy planning at the German Federal Ministry of Defense and as a visiting fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). He has a MA from the Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago and a BA from Calvin College.

Andrew R. Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati. He researches the intersection of religion, politics, and law in the United States.

Bryan McLaughlin is an assistant professor of advertising in the College of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University. His research examines how social identity categories are constructed and maintained through communication, how these social identity categories are processed cognitively, and the effects of this processing on political and social attitudes and behaviors.

J. Quin Monson (PhD, Ohio State University 2004) teaches political science at Brigham Young University and has research interests in public opinion, campaigns and elections, and religion and politics. He has published in Political Analysis, Political Behavior, and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Tatishe Nteta is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research explores the impact that shifts in the nation's racial demographics have on public opinion, political behavior, and political campaigns. His work has appeared in Political Psychology, Political Communication, and American Politics Research.

Victor Ottati is Professor of Psychology at Loyola University Chicago. His research interests include attitudes and social cognition political psychology, political communication, open-minded cognition, metaphor and cognition, affect and cognition, and cross-cultural psychology.

Kelly D. Patterson (PhD, Columbia University 1989) teaches political science at Brigham Young University on American politics and campaigns and elections. He has published in Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, and Public Opinion Quarterly.

Niloufer Siddiqui is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Yale University. Her research focuses on political violence, the politics of religion and ethnicity, and political behavior, with a geographical focus on South Asia.

Amy Erica Smith is Assistant Professor of political science at Iowa State University, and holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pittsburgh. Her research examines public opinion, civil society, religious influences on politics, and democratization cross-nationally, with a particular focus on Latin America and Brazil.

Nathanael Gratias Sumaktoyo is a Ph.D student in the political science and a Master's student in the statistics department at the University of Notre Dame. His interests revolve around religion and politics, political tolerance, social networks, experimental methods, Bayesian analysis, and computational statistics.

Bailey Thompson is a doctoral student in the college of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University. Her research examines media and sociocultural influences on sexual identity formation and resulting attitudes and behaviors.

Vinaya Untoro is a lecturer at Universitas Pancasila, Jakarta, Indonesia. She obtained her Master's in social psychology from Universitas Indonesia. Her interests include the psychology of religion and politics and how religious values influence political behavior.

Kenneth D. Wald is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Samuel R. Shorstein Professor of American Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Florida. He has written extensively about religion and American politics and is the coauthor of Religion and Politics in the United States, now in its seventh edition.

Kevin Wallsten is an Associate Professor of Political Science at California State University, Long Beach. His research focuses on the role that new media plays in shaping political behavior and public opinion in the United States. His research has been published in the Journal of Information, Technology, and Politics, Social Science Quarterly, and Politics, Groups, and Identities.

Joshua Wu received his PhD in Political Science from the Ohio State University in 2015. His research analyzed the effects of religion on political attitudes, behaviors, and strategies. Specifically, his dissertation examined how US presidents' use of religious rhetoric affect public support during foreign policy crises. Currently, he works as the manager of data processing at Edelman Intelligence.

Contributors of Book Reviews

Daniel L. Dreisbach is a professor at American University in Washington, D.C. He has authored numerous books and articles on the intersection of religion, politics, and law in the American founding era, including Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation between Church and State.

Katherine Knutson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota. She is the author of Interfaith Advocacy: The Role of Religious Coalitions in the Political Process. Her research addresses public policy, political communication, and religious interest groups in American politics.

Daniel H. Levine is Professor of Political Science, Emeritus at the University of Michigan, and Profesor Honorario de Ciencias Sociales at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He has published widely on issues of religion and politics, democracy, democratization, and civil society and social movements in Latin America. His most recent books are The Quality of Democracy in Latin America, and Politics, Religion, and Society in Latin America.

Michael Lienesch is professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author In the Beginning (UNC Press), Redeeming America (UNC Press), and New Order of the Ages (Princeton University Press), and articles on religious conservatism, creationism, and the New Christian Right.

Marcus Schulzke is a Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of York. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University at Albany in 2013 with a dissertation on how soldiers make ethical decisions during counterinsurgency operations. He has published work on religion and politics for journals such as Politics & Religion, Journal of Global Ethics, and E-International Relations.

Contributors to Featured Review Exchange

René Provost is Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, McGill University and founding Director (2005–2010) of the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism.

Sonia Sikka is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. Her primary areas of research are cultural and religious identity, philosophy of religion, and continental philosophy. Dr. Sikka's recent publications include: “On Translating Religious Reasons: Rawls, Habermas and the Quest for a Neutral Public Sphere” (Review of Politics, 2016), “What is Indian ‘Religion’? How Should it be Taught?”, in Whose Religion? Education About Religion in Public Schools, ed. Lori G. Beaman & Leo van Arragon (Brill, 2015); “Rights and Relativity,” in Human Rights: India and the West, ed. Ashwani Peetush & Jay Drydyk (OUP, 2015), Living with Religious Diversity, ed. with Bindu Puri, Lori G. Beaman, (Routledge, 2015); Multiculturalism & Religious Identity: Canada and India, ed. with Lori Beaman (McGill-Queen's, 2014); “Moral Relativism and the Concept of Culture” (Theoria, 2012); “The Perils of Indian Secularism” (Constellations, 2012); “Untouchable Cultures: Memory, Power and the Construction of Dalit Selfhood” (Identities, 2012).