Contributors of articles

John Anderson is a Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. His primary interests lie in religion and politics in the post-Soviet space, and in the international politics of global Christianity. His most recent book is Christianity and Democratisation: From Pious Subjects to Critical Participants, and he is currently looking at the export of “culture wars” style debates to Africa and the former Soviet Union.

Todd A. Collins is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. His research interests include public law, judicial behavior, and presidential behavior. His research has appeared in such outlets as Political Research Quarterly, Law and Policy, White House Studies, and the Maryland Law Review.

Daniel L. Dreisbach is a Professor of Justice, Law and Society at American University in Washington, D.C. His research interests include the intersection of politics, law, and religion in the American founding era. His publications include articles in American Journal of Legal History, Constitutional Commentary, Emory Law Journal, Journal of Church and State, and William and Mary Quarterly.

James L. Guth is a William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science at Furman University. He has written extensively on the role of religion in American and European politics. His current research projects include studies of the impact of religion on congressional voting and on the attitudes of religious publics concerning American foreign policy.

Jeffry R. Halverson is an Islamic studies scholar and historian of religions, specializing in Egypt and the Middle East. He currently serves as Assistant Research Professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. He is the author of Theology and Creed in Sunni Islam, the lead author of Master Narratives of Islamist Extremism, and author of the forthcoming Searching for a King: Muslim Nonviolence and the Future of Islam.

Hans Morten Haugen is an Associate Professor at Diakonhjemmet University College, Oslo. His research focus is on international law and social ethics, including how religious and nationalist discourses are challenged by universal approaches, both secular and religious. Before entering into academia he worked in Church of Norway Council on Ecumenical and International Relations.

C. Don Livingston is a Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. His primary interests include American political institutions and U.S. foreign policy. His publications include articles in Political Research Quarterly and Presidential Studies Quarterly.

John Soroski is an Assistant Professor at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. His current research interests are in the areas of democratic theory, religion and identity politics, and constitutional theory. He is currently completing a manuscript on Canadian constitutional issues for publication in 2012 entitled Conflicts, Cases, and Contested Authority.

Amy K. Way is a doctoral student and fellow in the Project for Wellness and Work-life in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. She studies organizational communication and her research explores how identities are discursively constructed and organized in everyday life. Research for her dissertation is specifically focused on children's socialization into work.

Kenneth A. Wink is the Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Public Administration at the University of Texas at Tyler. He has published a number of articles on campaigns and elections and legislative politics. His current research interests are state political culture and its effect on election returns and the effects of the religious identification of American decision makers on political behavior.

Daniel Edward Young is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern College. He received his Ph.D. from Temple University. His research interests include modern political thought, the political theory of international relations, and the intersection of theology and political theory. His publications include two chapters in edited volumes and several book reviews.

Contributors of book reviews

Zachary Irwin is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University Erie, The Behrend College. He is a comparativist whose work focuses on Southeastern Europe and the relation between politics and religion. He has held Fulbright, IREX, and Wilson Center fellowships.

Charles H. Lippy is the LeRoy A. Martin Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies Emeritus at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Most recently, he has written Introducing American Religion and, with Peter W. Williams, co-edited the four-volume Encyclopedia of Religion in America.

Rachael Long is a Ph.D. student in political science at George Mason University. Her research interests include religion and politics, education reform, women's issues, and health policy. She is currently conducting research on the rise of religion-based political action committees in 20th century America.

Barbara A. McGraw is a Professor of Social Ethics, Law, and Public Life and Director of the Center for Engaged Religious Pluralism and its Prison Religion Project at Saint Mary's College of California. A member of the Bar of the United States Supreme Court, she is an inmate advocate on prison religion issues. Her J.D. and Ph.D. (in religion and social ethics) are both from the University of Southern California. She is the author of, among other things, Rediscovering America's Sacred Ground: Public Religion and Pursuit of the Good in a Pluralistic America.

Steven P. Millies chairs the Department of History, Political Science, and Philosophy at the University of South Carolina Aiken, where he also is an Associate Professor of Political Science. His writings concern the relationship of the Catholic tradition (and religion, more broadly) to political life.

Samuel Peleg is a Political Scientist who specializes in conflict analysis and conflict resolution processes, especially culturally and religiously motivated. He is a faculty member at the negotiation and conflict resolution program at Columbia University. Dr. Peleg is a research fellow at the Stanford Center for International Conflict resolution and negotiation, and in 2009–2011 has been a Schusterman Visiting Professor at Rutgers University. His new book Communication: How Can Human Communities Survive and Prosper in a Post-Modern Age will appear in 2012.

Adam L. Silverman is the Culture and Foreign Language Advisor at the United States Army War College. He previously served as the U.S. Army Human Terrain System's strategic communication advisor and as the socio-cultural advisor to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team/1st Armored Division as the team lead and field social scientist on Human Terrain Team Iraq 6. His research focuses on the learned basis of identity and its socio-behavioral role in political violence, terrorism, counter insurgency and irregular warfare, and socio-cultural considerations and effects.

Ermin Sinanovic is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the United States Naval Academy. His teaching and research interests include Islam and politics, Islamic movements and political parties, and Islamic revival, with regional foci on Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Southeastern Europe.

Adam L. Warber is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Clemson University. He is an expert on the unilateral presidency and is the author of Executive Orders and the Modern Presidency: Legislating from the Oval Office. He also has published articles in Political Research Quarterly and Presidential Studies Quarterly.

Fenggang Yang is a Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University. His research has focused on immigrant religions in the United States and religious change in China. He is the author or editor of three books, including Chinese Christians in America: Conversion, Assimilation, and Adhesive Identities, as well as articles in the American Sociological Review, the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Sociology of Religion, Amerasia Journal, the Journal of Asian American Studies, and the Sociological Quarterly.