Contributors of articles
T. Randolph Beard is a Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Auburn University, Auburn, AL. He is the author of several books, most recently The Global Organ Shortage: Economic Causes, Human Consequences, Policy Responses (with David Kaserman and Rigmar Osterkamp), and numerous scholarly articles on the economics of regulation and industrial competition. His work has appeared in The RAND Journal of Economics, Management Science, The Review of Economics and Statistics, and many others.
Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. is a Professor and Eminent Scholar Emeritus, Department of Economics, Auburn University. He is the author of Secret Origins of Modern Microeconomics (with Robert Hébert) and The Marketplace of Christianity (with Robert Hébert and Robert Tollison).
Renaud Fabbri is a Political Scientist from Versailles Public Institutions Research Center (France) and an adjunct at SFS-Qatar, Georgetown University. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (France), an M.A. in Comparative Religion from Miami University (OH, USA), and an M.A. in philosophy from Paris-La Sorbonne IV (France). He specializes in Comparative Political Theory and in Religion and Politics. His work focuses on the theories of secularization, on the relation between Political Theology, Mysticism and Revolution, on the European Counter-Revolution as well as on the Middle-Eastern and Indian New Religious Politics. He is currently preparing a book on the political and religious philosopher Eric Voegelin and the response to the crisis of the Axial/Ecumenic Age in Islam and Hinduism.
George S. Ford is a Chief Economist, Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies, Washington, DC. He is the author of numerous studies on the economics of public policy and has published many articles on policy, economics, and statistics in journals such as the Journal of Business, The Journal of Law and Economics, Empirical Economics, and frequently testifies as an expert before regulatory agencies, courts, and the U.S. Congress.
Ben Gaskins is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, NC. His research includes work in public opinion, mass media, and religion and politics—specifically the effects of religion on public opinion, information processing, and vote choices.
Ron E. Hassner is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, co-director of Berkeley's Religion, Politics and Globalization Program and chair of the ISA section on Religion and International Relations. He studies the role of symbols and ideas in international security with particular attention to the relationship between religion and conflict. He is the editor of Religion in the Military Worldwide, a collection of essays on religious practices in contemporary and professional armed forces, and War on Sacred Grounds an analysis of the causes and characteristics of disputes over sacred places around the globe and the conditions under which these conflicts can be managed.
Stratos Patrikios is a Lecturer in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. His research interests include religion and politics, political behavior, and survey methods.
Marcus Schulzke is the Research Director of the Project on Violent Conflict at the University at Albany. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University at Albany in 2012 with a dissertation on how soldiers make ethical decisions during counterinsurgency operations.
Nicholas Tampio is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Fordham University. His research interests include the intersection of Enlightenment and Islamic political theory. He has published articles on this topic in Contemporary Political Theory, Political Theory, and Theory & Event.
Shabnum Tejani teaches modern South Asian History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her research has been on secularism, nationalism and communalism in late colonial India. Her new project is a study of urban property and merchant communities in 20th-century Bombay.
Robert D. Tollison is a J. Wilson Newman Professor and BB&T Senior Fellow in the Department of Economics, Clemson University, Clemson SC. He is the author of numerous books such as Economic Origins of Roman Christianity (with Robert Ekelund) and more than 400 papers in journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Contributors of book reviews
Dennis J. Goldford is a Professor of Politics at Drake University, where he teaches in the areas of political and constitutional theory. In addition to having authored The Constitution of Religious Freedom: God, Politics, and the First Amendment, reviewed here, he has also authored The American Constitution and the Debate Over Originalism, and co-authored, with Hugh Winebrenner, The Iowa Precinct Caucuses: The Making of A Media Event, 3rd ed.
Jennifer London is a Political Theorist who studies Western and Islamic history of political thought, language and politics, theories of authoritarian rule, and comparative political theory. She is Research Director for the Democratic Knowledge Project at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (P.I. Danielle Allen). London is the author of two articles, “How to Do Things with Fables” and “The Circle of Justice,” published in History of Political Thought. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled Autocracy and the Foreigner: The Political Thought of Ibn al-Muqaffa', which is under review.
Benjamin Lynerd serves as the Benjamin Franklin Post Doctoral Fellow at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and is the author of Republican Theology: The Civil Religion of American Evangelicals, forthcoming.
Andrew R. Murphy is the Book Review Editor of this journal, and Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. He is author, most recently, of Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11. His current research focuses on the political thought of William Penn (1644–1718), and contemporary issues in American religion, politics, and culture.
John Ragosta is a Robert C. Vaughan Fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, has taught history and law at the University of Virginia, George Washington University, Hamilton College, and Randolph College after a successful legal career. He has also held fellowships at the International Center for Jefferson Studies. Professor Ragosta authored Religious Freedom: Jefferson's Legacy, America's Creed and Wellspring of Liberty: How Virginia's Religious Dissenters Helped to Win the American Revolution & Secured Religious Liberty.
Walter Skya is an Associate Professor of History and Director of the Asian Studies Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He is the author of Japan's Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism.
Lauren Turek is a Doctoral Candidate in History at the University of Virginia. Her dissertation, “To Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelicals, Human Rights, and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1969–1994,” illuminates the ways in which religion and religious groups interacted with foreign policy, political culture, and the international human rights regime to shape America's role in the modern world.
