Contributors of articles

Todd Adkins is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His focus is on attitudes toward cultural and social policy in the United States, and in particular, the impact of policy activity on mass opinion over time. Before attending graduate school, Todd worked in Washington, D.C. and several state capitals in various legislative advocacy roles.

Ryan Burge received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Southern Illinois University. He is currently an Instructor of political science at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

David E. Campbell is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, and the Director of the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy. He has published widely on civic engagement, political behavior, and religion and politics in the United States.

James deFronzo, Sociology Department University of Connecticut has published articles in the areas of political sociology, social movements and criminology. He is the author of The Iraq War: Origins and Consequences and the editor of the three volume encyclopedia Revolutionary Movements in World History. He is preparing the fifth edition of his text Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements.

Jungyun Gill is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Stonehill College. Her specialties include political sociology, social movements, sociology of the family, gender, race and ethnic relations, and quantitative and qualitative methods. In addition to her articles on international adoption and families she is the co-author of “Religious Adherence and Military Enlistment Before and After the 9/11 Attacks” and is also co-authoring with Jim DeFronzo Social Problems, which emphasizes social and political movements, and “Revolution Without Borders: Global Revolutionaries, Their Messages and Means” for the forthcoming Handbook of Globalization.

J. Tobin Grant is a Professor of Political Science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is an Associate Editor at the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. His research interests include religion & politics, American politics, political behavior, and political methodology.

John C. Green is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director of the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron, and a Senior Research Advisor at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. He has done extensive research on religion and American Politics.

Christopher S. Grenda is an Associate Professor of History at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York. His latest works include Profane: Sacrilegious Expression in a Multicultural Age (forthcoming), co-edited with Chris Beneke of Bentley University and David Nash of Oxford Brooks University, and The First Prejudice: Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America, co-edited with Chris Beneke of Bentley University.

Philip Habel is a Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Glasgow. His research interests include political behavior, political communication, and religion & politics.

Carly M. Jacobs is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research focuses on how group identity interacts with cognitive predispositions—such as categorization style—to influence politically-relevant attitudes and behaviors. She has published in Political Behavior, Social Science Quarterly, and The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London—Biological Sciences.

Matthew L. Jacobsmeier is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at West Virginia University. His research deals with representation, public opinion, and political behavior, and focuses on the effects of race and religion. His work has appeared in State Politics and Policy Quarterly and PS: Political Science and Politics.

Geoffrey C. Layman is a Professor of Political Science and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on party politics, political behavior, and religion and politics in the United States.

Stephen V. Monsma is a Senior Research Fellow at the Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics at Calvin College and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Pepperdine University. He has published widely in the fields of church-state relations and faith-based organizations. His most recent book is Pluralism and Freedom: Faith-Based Organizations in a Democratic Society.

Corwin E. Smidt is a Senior Research Fellow at the Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Calvin College. A founding member of the Religion and Politics section of the American Political Science Association, he has served several terms on the executive council of the section and the section's chair. His most recent books include The Oxford Handbook on Religion and American Politics, The Disappearing God Gap? Religion and the 2008 Presidential Election, and American Evangelicals Today.

Elizabeth Theiss-Morse is a Willa Cather Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research focuses on understanding American public opinion and how it relates to various aspects of democracy, including democratic processes and American identity. She is the author or co-author of four award-winning Cambridge University Press books and has received several National Science Foundation grants.

Contributors of book review

AmÉlie Barras is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Montreal. She also works with the Canadian Religion and Diversity Project. She specializes in comparative politics with a focus on the study of secularism and religion.

Jonathan Den Hartog is an Associate Professor of History, Northwestern College; and the 2012–2013 Garwood Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. His book “Patriotism and Piety”: Federalist Politics and Religious Struggle in the New Nation is forthcoming.

Paul A. Djupe is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Denison University, is the co-editor of this journal. He is co-author with Christopher P. Gilbert of The Political Influence of Churches and The Prophetic Pulpit, and co-editor with Laura R. Olson of Beyond the Culture Wars: Religious Interests in Community Conflict.

Mark J. Lutz is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Author of Divine Law and Political Philosophy in Plato's Laws, his work focuses on classical and early modern political philosophy.

Lucian Turcescu is a Full Professor and Chair the Department of Theological Studies at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. His latest book is Church, State, and Democracy in Expanding Europe.