Contributors of articles

Birol Baskan is an Assistant Professor of Government at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. His research interests include state-religion relations, regime-religion relations, islamic movements, and islamic political thought.

Bethany Blackstone is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas. Her research interests include judicial decision making, the separation of powers, and elite and public attitudes toward courts. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Politics and Law & Society Review.

Jonathan Fox is a Professor of Political Studies at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan Israel, a senior fellow at he Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, and director of the Religion and State project. He has published extensively on various topics relation to religion and politics including state religion policy, religion in international relations, religious minorities, and religious conflict. His most recent books include Political Secularism, Religion and the State, An Introduction to Religion and Politics: Theory & Practice, and Religion in International Relations Theory: Interactions and Possibilities, with Nukhet Sandal.

Kenneth Houston coordinates the Undergraduate International Relations Program at the Thailand Campus of Webster University. His research focus is on the role of religion and politics, European Integration, conflict studies and social power. He has published previously in the areas of religion and public policy.

Junpeng Li is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. His research interests include religious movements, contentious politics, intellectuals, and comparative-historical analysis. He was a co-winner of the Sixth Worldwide Competition for Junior Sociologists from the International Sociological Association.

Frode Løvlie is a Researcher at Chr. Michelsen Institute and a PhD candidate at the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen. His research interests include Palestinian politics, Islamist social movements and political parties, and the role of political Islam in democratization processes.

Tetsuya Matsubayashi is an Associate Professor at the Osaka School of International Public Policy at Osaka University, Japan. His research interests include mass political behavior, political representation, race and ethnic politics, and public health. His work has appeared in American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, American Politics Research, Political Research Quarterly, and Social Science Quarterly.

Elizabeth A. Oldmixon is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas. Focusing on religion and legislative policymaking, clergy attitudes and activism, and Irish, Israeli, and American politics, her work has appeared in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Social Science Quarterly, Foreign Policy Analysis, and Legislative Studies Quarterly, and she is author of Uncompromising Positions: God, Sex, and the U.S. House of Representatives.

Rachel Scott is an Associate Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religion and Culture and ASPECT (Alliance of Social Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought) at Virginia Tech where she teaches on Islam, Islamic political thought, and comparative religion. Her general area of research is modern Islamic — mainly Arab Sunni — thought, focusing on contemporary Islamic thinking on pluralism, citizenship, religious authority, and the relationship between religion and state. More recently, she has begun a project on Islamic historiography. She is also interested in the relationship between religion and law, particularly constitutions. Her book, The Challenge of Political Islam: Non-Muslims and the Egyptian State was published in 2010.

Daniel Stockemer is an Assistant Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. Daniel's research focuses on questions of political participation and representation. He is widely published in these fields. Among others his articles have appeared in Electoral Studies, Social Science Quarterly, and the International Political Science Review.

Contributors of book reviews

Sean Durbin received his PhD in 2013 from the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He has published articles on various aspects of contemporary Christian Zionism in Culture and Religion, The Journal of Contemporary Religion, and Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception.

Joel S. Fetzer is a Professor of Political Science and Frank R. Seaver Professor of Social Science at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. With J. Christopher Soper, he is the author of the books Confucianism, Democratization, and Human Rights in Taiwan and Muslims and the State in Britain, France, and Germany.

Jo Renee Formicola is a Professor of Political Science at Seton Hall University. She is the author of three books; co-author of two others, and editor of three volumes in the area of religion and politics. She is currently working on a book on church-state relations and clerical sexual abuse.

Emily Gill is a Caterpillar Professor of Political Science at Bradley University. Her most recent book is An Argument for Same-Sex Marriage: Religious Freedom, Sexual Freedom, and Public Expressions of Civic Equality. She is also the author of Becoming Free: Autonomy and Diversity in the Liberal Polity, and co-editor with Gordon A. Babst and Jason Pierceson of Moral Argument, Religion, and Same-Sex Marriage: Advancing the Public Good.

Susan P. Liebell is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Saint Joseph's University. She worked in New York state government before receiving her PhD from the University of Chicago. Her recent book, Democracy, Intelligent Design, and Evolution: Science for Citizenship combines her interests in American political thought, liberal democratic theory and public law.

Unislawa Williams is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Spelman College, where she teaches courses related to methodology, international organizations and international political economy. Her research interests focus specifically on prediction as well as religion and politics, including an on-going research agenda that explores the role of religious elites in political transitions.