Contributors of articles
Ursula Hackett is a Doctoral Student at the University of Oxford. Her research interests are American politics, education policy, federalism, and church-state law.
Max Halupka is a PhD Candidate at the ANZSIG Institute for Governance, University of Canberra. His primary research interests are in political participation, virtual communities, online activism, and Anonymous. Most recently, he has been working on issues relating to Clicktivism, with a focus on creating a systematic heuristic.
Ted G. Jelen is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has published extensively in the areas of abortion opinion and religion and politics.
Andrew R. Lewis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati. He researches the intersection of law, religion, and advocacy in American politics.
Lee Marsden is a Professor of International Relations and Head of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. He is the author of a number of books on religion and international relations including For God Sake: The Christian Right and US Foreign Policy and most recently an edited collection on The Ashgate Research Companion on Religion and Conflict Resolution. Professor Marsden is editor of the Ashgate Series on Religion and International Security.
Ronald E. Osborn is an Adjunct Professor of International Relation at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Anarchy and Apocalypse: Essays on Faith, Violence and Theodicy and Death Before the Fall: Biblical Literalism and the Problem of Animal Suffering.
Luca Ozzano is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Turin, in Italy. He is chair of the “Politics and Religion” Standing Group of the Italian Political Science Association and member of the board of the RC43 “Religion and Politics” of the International Political Science Association.
Contributors of book reviews
Michael L. Coulte is a Professor of Political Science at Grove City College. He was the co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science and Social Policy (2007–2012).
Ted G. Jelen is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has published extensively in the areas of abortion opinion and religion and politics.
Christian Joppke holds the chair in General Sociology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is also a Recurrent Visiting Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at Central European University, Budapest, and Honorary Professor in the Department of Political Science and Government, University of Aarhus, Denmark. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. His recent books are The Secular State Under Siege: Religion and Politics in Europe and America, Legal Integration of Islam: A Transatlantic Comparison (with John Torpey), Citizenship and Immigration, and Veil: Mirror of Identity.
Jeffery D. Long is a Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School in the year 2000. He is the author of A Vision for Hinduism: Beyond Hindu Nationalism, Jainism: An Introduction, the Historical Dictionary of Hinduism, and the forthcoming Indian Philosophy: An Introduction, along with a companion reader of primary sources.
Agnieszka Pasieka holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the Martin Luther University, Halle. Her upcoming book, Hierarchy and Pluralism: Living Religious Difference in Catholic Poland, discusses the situation of religious and ethnic minorities in the context of church-state relations in Poland. She was a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (2007–2011) and at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna (2011–2012). Currently she is a postdoc at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Robert F. Shedinge is a Professor of Religion at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. He holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Temple University and is the author of Was Jesus a Muslim? Questioning Categories in the Study of Religion and other books and articles.
Matthew Avery Sutton is the Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of History at Washington State University. He is the author of American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism, Jerry Falwell and the Rise of the Religious Right: A Brief History with Documents, and Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America. He has published articles in diverse venues ranging from the Journal of American History to the New York Times and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the US Fulbright Commission, and the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation.
