CynthiaBurack is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women's Studies at The Ohio State University. She is the author of The Problem of the Passions: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Social Theory and Healing Identities: Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Groups, which was awarded the Gradiva Book Award in Historical, Cultural and Literary Analysis by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. She co-edited Fundamental Differences: Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservatives with Jyl J. Josephson, and her most recent book is Sin, Sex, and Democracy: Antigay Rhetoric and the Christian Right. Her articles have appeared in New Political Science, Women and Politics, Culture and Religion, Journal of Political Ideologies, and NWSA Journal.

BrianCalfano is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Missouri State University. His research interests include religion and political behavior, and the democratic process. His work has appeared in Political Research Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and several edited volumes.

Paul A. Djupe is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Denison University, Granville, Ohio. He is co-author of The Prophetic Pulpit: Clergy, churches, and communities in American politics (with Christopher P. Gilbert), Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics (with Laura R. Olson), and The Political Influence of Churches (with Christopher P. Gilbert), and co-editor of Religious Interests in Community Conflict: Beyond the Culture Wars (with Laura R. Olson).

AmyFreedman is an Associate Professor of Political Science at C.W. Post, Long Island University. She is also an adjunct associate research scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Recent publications include Political Change and Consolidation: Democracy's Rocky Road in Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, and Malaysia, as well as numerous articles relating to democratization in Southeast Asia. She is also the managing editor of the journal, Asia Security.

Patricia K. Freeman is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her research interests include religion and politics, state politics, interest groups, and women and politics. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, and Legislative Studies Quarterly.

David J. Houston is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research interests include public service motivation, religion and public administration, and traffic safety policy. Among the journals in which his research has appeared are the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Political Research Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

SarahNicolet is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Political Science at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her research focuses on electoral behavior, and on the variations in the determinants of the vote. She is also interested in the political implications of the transformation of the West European religious landscape. She co-edited a book on national elections in Switzerland. Her articles have appeared in West European Politics, The Journal of European Public Policy, and The Swiss Political Science Review.

AnkeTresch is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Political Science at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her main research interests include political communication, the formation of public opinion and political attitudes, voting behavior, and the changing character of the religious cleavage. She is the author of Öffentlichkeit und Sprachenvielfalt. Medienvermittelte Kommunikation zur Europapolitik in der Deutsch- und Westschweiz.

ChrisBeneke is an Associate Professor of History and Director of the Valente Center for Arts and Sciences at Bentley University. He is the author of Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism and co-editor (with Christopher S. Grenda) of The First Prejudice: Religious Tolerance and Religious Intolerance in Early America.

Alison L. Boden serves as the Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel at Princeton University. Her teaching and writing interests concern the intersection of religion with violence, human rights, and social change. Her most recent book is Women's Rights and Religious Practice.

Mark D. Brewer is an Assistant 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 (with Jeffrey M. Stonecash and Mack D. Mariani) of Diverging Parties, Split: Class and Cultural Divides in American Politics, and (with L. Sandy Maisel) of Parties and Elections in America: The electoral process, fifth edition, and has published articles in Political Research Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

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.

FrancescoCavatorta is a lecturer in International Relations and Middle East Politics at Dublin City University (Ireland). He has published numerous articles on democratization in the Middle East and North Africa. His book on the Algerian transition is due out in 2009, and he is currently working on a project examining civil society in the Arab world.

IvaEllenDeutchman holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where she specializes in modern American conservatism. She has many publications in major journals, the latest of which is “Fundamentalist Christians, Raunch Culture and Post-industrial Capitalism” in the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture.

Andrew S. Finstuen teaches American religious history at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, where he also serves as director of PLU's international honors program. He is the author of Original Sin and Everyday Protestants: The Popular Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, and Paul Tillich, forthcoming.

James L. Guth is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science at Furman University. He received his B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is the co-author or co-editor of several books, including The Bully Pulpit: The Politics of Protestant Clergy, and his work has appeared in numerous scholarly journals and edited volumes.

MichaelKuchinsky earned a Ph.D. in political science at the University of South Carolina and teaches at Gardner-Webb University. An ordained clergyperson, he worked on African food security at Bread for the World and was vice president of The Luther Institute. He collaborated on The UN Secretary General and Moral Authority: Ethics and Religion in International Leadership.

BruceNesmith is the Joan and Abbott Lipsky Professor and Chair of Political Science at Coe College. He is author of The New Republican Coalition: The Reagan Campaigns and White Evangelicals. His current research deals with policymaking by the president and Congress.

BenyaminNeuberger is a Professor of Political Science at the Open University of Israel. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and was previously on the faculty of Tel-Aviv University. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a Senior Associate Member at St Anthony's College, Oxford. He has published widely on nationalism, church and state, Israeli politics, and African politics.

Quincy D. Newell is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Wyoming, where she specializes in the religious history of the American West. She is the author of a book on California Indians at Mission San Francisco during the Spanish colonial period, forthcoming.

JulieNovkov is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. Novkov is the author of Racial Union: Law, intimacy, and the White state in Alabama, 1865–1954 and Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, law, and labor in the Progressive era and New Deal years, as well as other works concerning the legal construction of subordinated identity and constitutional development in the United States. She co-edited Race and American Political Development with Joseph Lowndes and Dorian Warren and Security Disarmed: Critical Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Militarization with Barbara Sutton and Sandra Morgen.

David L. Weeks is the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Azusa Pacific University. His academic interests include political philosophy and American politics, especially the intersection of religion and politics and the U.S. Supreme Court and evangelical political activism.