Notes on Contributors

Margaret Bendroth is the Executive Director of the Congregational Library and Archives in Boston, Massachusetts. A historian of American religion, her books include Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present (1993) and, most recently, The Last Puritans: Mainline Protestants and the Power of the Past (2015).

Derek H. Davis is formerly Director, J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies and Professor of Political Science, Baylor University, and Editor of the Journal of Church and State. He is author or editor of 19 books and more than 150 academic articles. He now practices law in Waco, Texas.

Jacqueline R. deVries, Professor of History at Augsburg College, has written widely on religion and feminist politics in the British and transatlantic contexts. Her most recent essay, "Sounds Taken for Wonders" in The Spirit of Things, edited by Timothy W. Jones and Lucinda Matthews-Jones (2015), examines the acoustical dimensions of women's activism.

Seth Dowland is Assistant Professor of Religion at Pacific Lutheran University. He is the author of Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right (2015) and has written several articles about evangelicalism. He is currently researching the history of Christian manhood in the twentieth century.

Michael D. Driessen is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at John Cabot University in Rome. His research explores the nature of public religion in Catholic and Muslim societies, and he has recently published the book Religion and Democratization (2014).

Nicholas Drummond is a doctoral candidate and teaching fellow in political science at the University of North Texas, specializing in political theory and international relations. He earned his Master of Science in Defense and Strategic Studies from Missouri State University.

Paul Finkelman is author of over 200 scholarly articles and 40 books. The US Supreme Court has cited his work in four cases, including two involving religion. He is Ariel F. Sallows Professor in Human Rights Law, University of Saskatchewan School of Law, and Senior Fellow, Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism, University of Pennsylvania.

Jo Renee Formicola is Professor of Political Science at Seton Hall University. Her most recent book is Clerical Sexual Abuse: How the Crisis Changed US Church-State Relations (2014). She has published extensively in academic journals and serves as a commentator for print, visual, and social media.

Rebecca D. Gill is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her research is on gender, judging, and legal institutions. She is the co-author of Judicialization of Politics and is currently conducting an NSF-sponsored research project studying bias in the evaluation of state judges.

Rebecca A. Glazier is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Her research agenda addresses issues of religion, framing, and US foreign policy. She has a substantive interest in the Middle East and coordinated the Middle Eastern Studies Program at UALR from 2012 to 2014.

Mark David Hall is the Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics and Faculty Fellow in the William Penn Honors Program at George Fox University. He is the author or editor of nine books, including Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic (2013).

Ted G. Jelen is Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has published extensively in the areas of religion and politics, the politics of abortion, and church-state relations. He is the former editor of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion and is a former co-editor of Politics and Religion.

Bruce E. Johansen is Jacob J. Isaacson Research Professor in Communication and Native American Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He has published 42 books, including works on American history (Native American precedents for democracy), Native American studies generally, and environmental subjects (especially global warming and chemical toxicology).

Lucas F. Johnston is Associate Professor of Religion and Environmental Studies at Wake Forest University. He is the author of Religion and Sustainability: Social Movements and the Politics of the Environment (2013), and editor of Science and Religion: One Planet Many Possibilities (2014) and Higher Education for Sustainability (2012).

Michael Kessler is Managing Director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Associate Professor of the Practice, Government Department, and Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University. His scholarly interests are in moral and political theory and the intersection of law, religion, and ethics.

Prema Ann Kurien is Professor of Sociology at Syracuse University. She is the author two award-winning books, Kaleidoscopic Ethnicity: International Migration and the Reconstruction of Community Identities in India, and A Place at the Multicultural Table: The Development of an American Hinduism, and over 40 articles.

Michael Lienesch is Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His writings on Christian conservatism include Redeeming America: Piety and Politics in the New Christian Right (1993) and In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement (2007).

Barbara Alice Mann Associate Professor in the Honors College at the University of Toledo, Ohio, is currently working with an international team of scholars examining massacres, worldwide, between 1780 and 1820. Her newest book, Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath: The Twinned Cosmos of Indigenous America (2016).

Lerone A. Martin is Assistant Professor of Religion and Politics in the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in Saint Louis. He is the author of Preaching on Wax: The Phonograph and the Shaping of Modern African American Religion (2014).

Eric Michael Mazur is the Religion, Law, and Politics Fellow at the Center for the Study of Religious Freedom and Professor at Virginia Wesleyan College. He is the author of The Americanization of Religious Minorities (2000), co-author of Religion on Trial (2004), and articles, chapters, and encyclopedia entries on American religious liberty issues.

Barbara A. McGraw is Professor, Social Ethics, Law, and Public Life and Director, Center for Engaged Religious Pluralism, Saint Mary's College of California. Her works on religious pluralism and politics include Many Peoples, Many Faiths (1999-2014), Taking Religious Pluralism Seriously (2005), and Rediscovering America's Sacred Ground (2003).

Bryan T. McGraw is an Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at Wheaton College. His first book, Faith in Politics: Religion and Liberal Democracy, was published in 2010.

Dan McKanan is the Emerson Senior Lecturer at Harvard Divinity School, where he has taught since 2008. He is the author of four books on religion and social transformation, the most recent of which is Prophetic Encounters: Religion and the American Radical Tradition (2011).

Timothy Miller is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas. His work focuses on new religious movements, especially those that practice communal living. His books include The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America (1998), The 60s Communes (1999), and The Encyclopedic Guide to American Intentional Communities (2013).

Vincent Phillip Muñoz is the Tocqueville Associate Professor of Political Science and Concurrent Associate Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. His publications include Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court (2013) and God and the Founders (2009).

Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape), co-founder/co-director of the Indigenous Law Institute and activist for Indigenous nations/peoples for over 20 years (including at the United Nations), is author of Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery (2008) and articles in Review of Law & Social Change and Griffith Law Review.

Elizabeth A. Oldmixon is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas, and a fellow at the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies Summer Institute, Brandeis University. She is author of Uncompromising Positions: God, Sex, and the US House of Representatives (2005), as well as numerous articles on religion and politics.

Anthony B. Pinn is Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities, Professor of Religious Studies, and Director of the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning at Rice University. He is also Director of Research for the Institute for Humanist Studies. Pinn is author/editor of 32 books including Introducing African American Religion (2013).

John R. Pottenger is Professor of Political Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. His published research investigates theoretical challenges in classical and modern political theory, religion and civil society, and Christian and Islamic political theology,...