Contributors of articles

Andrew Bramsen is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His research examines the intersection of religion and politics, with a special focus on the impact of religion on the nature and quality of democracy, and on the formation of religious parties and their impact on electoral systems. He is currently working on his dissertation, which develops and tests a theory of Islamist party formation.

Robert Brathwaite is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests include terrorism, intra-state conflict, and the relationship between religion and democracy. He is currently working on his dissertation that addresses why some cases of secession are recognized while others are not.

Brian Calfano 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.

Jangsup Choi is an Instructor of Political Science at Texas Tech University. His research interests include the U.S. Congress, presidential study, campaigns and elections, political behavior, and state politics. He is currently working on a project investigating how electoral systems influence nomination strategies and representation in U.S. state legislatures.

Betul Demirkaya is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Paul A. Djupe is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Denison University, Granville, Ohio. He 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).

John Frendreis is a Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago. His publications include articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Political Research Quarterly, Polity, Social Science Quarterly, and Journal of Urban Affairs, and he is co-author of the books The Presidency and Economic Policy and The Modern Presidency and Economic Policy.

Gamal Gasim is an Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies and Political Science at Grand Valley State University, earned his Ph.D. in political science from Texas Tech University. Before Grand Valley, he taught at Texas Tech, University of Wisconsin-Madison during the summers of 2006 and 2007, and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Beloit College during the summers of 2008 and 2009, respectively. His research interests include Islamic political parties, elections, Muslim Americans, and higher education in the Middle East.

Kate Knutson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. She has contributed chapters to Religion, Race, and the American Presidency, ed. by Gaston Espinosa and to Church and State Issues in America Today, ed. by Steven Jones and Ann Duncan. She is currently writing a book with the working title, Voices Calling out in the Wilderness: The Impact of Religious Interest Groups on American Political Debate.

Emile Lester is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the University of Mary Washington. He is the author of Teaching Religions: A Democratic Approach for Public Schools and has contributed articles to The Review of Politics, Polity, Journal of Church and State, and other journals.

Dennis Patterson is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department at Texas Tech University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from UCLA in 1995. He is the author of the book, The Japan that never was: Explaining the rise and decline of a misunderstood country. He has also contributed articles to World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, The British Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Asian Survey and other journals.

Patrick S. Roberts is an Assistant Professor of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. He has contributed chapters to several edited collections, as well as articles to Political Science Quarterly, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and other journals. For 2010–11 he is the Ghaemian Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Heidelberg's Center for American Studies in Germany.

Raymond Tatalovich is Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Theodore J. Lowi. His primary research areas are public policy analysis, specifically moral conflicts, as well as the presidency and Canadian Politics. He has published more than 50 scholarly articles, book chapters, and monographs, and made presentations at over 70 professional conferences in the United States, Canada, and Europe. His scholarly works have appeared in the Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Social Sciences Quarterly, Polity, and the American Review of Canadian Studies. Among his authored or edited volumes are The Official English Language Movement and the American States, The Politics of Abortion in the United States and Canada, Cultures at War: Moral Conflict in Western Democracies, and Moral Controversies in American Politics.

Sultan Tepe is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is the author of Beyond Sacred and Secular: Politics of Religion in Israel and Turkey, published by Stanford University Press in 2008, and has contributed articles to Journal of Democracy, Democratization, and other journals.

Contributors of book reviews

David E. Campbell is the John Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C. Associate Professor of Politicai Science at the University of Notre Dame and the founding director of the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy. Among many other books and articles, he is the co-author (with Robert D. Putnam) of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us. His work emphasizes civic engagement, religion and politics, and education.

Karam Dana is the Co-principal Investigator (with Matt Barreto) of the Muslim American Public Opinion Survey, for which they received the 2009 Best Paper Award in Race Ethnicity and Politics from the American Political Science Association. He is currently a research fellow at the Dubai Initiative at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a faculty member at Tufts University, where he teaches courses on Middle Eastern History and Politics. His research examines how religion influences political identities in different cultural and societal contexts.

Penny Edgell is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. She studies how religion influences symbolic boundaries and solidarity in American life, focusing on gender, family ideals, race, and citizenship. Her current research examines how religious, scientific, and legal frameworks intersect to shape how citizens understand social controversies. She is the author of three books and many articles, including publications in the American Sociological Review and Social Problems.

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.

Chris Hann is a Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. His department recently completed a series of projects on religious change in post-socialist countries; a filli report can be found at www.eth.mpg.de. Hann is co-editor (with Hermann Goltz) of Eastern Christians in Anthropological Perspective and co-author of The Postsocialist Religious Question; Faith and Power in Central Asia and East-Central Europe.

Eric L. McDaniel is an Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. His work focuses on racial/ethnic politics and religion and politics. He is the author of Politics in the Pews: The Political Mobilization of Black Churches.

Jonathan W. Olson is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Religion at Florida State University, specializing in American religious history. His areas of interest include the intersection of religion, immigration, and nativism in late nineteenth-century America and religion in the early nineteenth-century Trans-Mississippi West.

Stratos Patriicios is a Lecturer in Politics at the School of Government and Public Policy, University of Strathclyde. His work, which has appeared in Political Behavior, the Journal of Peace Research, and the Journal of Contemporary Religion, deals with the interplay between religiosity and partisanship, deprivatization and religious authority, and the impact of church cues on immigration attitudes.

Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University and Visiting Professor and Director of the Manchester Graduate Summer Programme in Social Change, University of Manchester. Professor Putnam is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the British Academy, and past president of the American Political Science Association. In 2006, Putnam received the Skytte Prize, one of the world's highest accolades for a political scientist. He has written more than a dozen books, translated into seventeen languages, including the best-selling Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, and more recently (with David E. Campbell) American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us.

Kenneth D. Wald, is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida, is the author of Religion and Politics in the United States, among many other works. He is currently studying the political behavior of American Jewry.

Darren Walhof is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Grand Valley State University, where he teaches modern and contemporary political theory, American politics, and American political thought. He writes on democratic theory, religion and politics, and philosophical hermeneutics. His most recent article is “Habermas, Same-sex Marriage, and Religion in Public Life,” forthcoming in Philosophy & Social Criticism.

Shira Wolosky is a Professor of English and American Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is author of Emily Dickinson: A Voice of War, Language Mysticism, Poetry and Public Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America, and other books and articles on literature, literary theory, and religion. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, and the Drue Heinz Visiting Professorship at the Rothermere Institute, Oxford.