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  • Contributors

John D. Carlson is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict. His most recent book is From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, and America (co-edited with Jonathan Ebel; University of California Press, 2012). From 2008 to 2011, he was president of the Niebuhr Society.

Jonathan H. Ebel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Faith in the Fight: Religion and the American Solider in the Great War (Princeton University Press, 2010), and the co-editor with John D. Carlson of From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, and America (University of California Press, 2012). He is currently at work on a book, A Wandering Oklahoman Was My Father: Religion, Migration, and America’s Great Depression, which examines the religious dimensions of the Dust Bowl migration.

Christopher H. Evans is Professor of the History of Christianity at Boston University School of Theology. He is the author of several books, including The Kingdom Is Always but Coming: A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch (Baylor University Press, 2010), Liberalism Without Illusions: Renewing an American Christian Tradition (Baylor University Press, 2010), and The Histories of American Christianity (Baylor University Press, forthcoming).

John Feldmann holds an undergraduate degree in economics from Hampden-Sydney College, as well as a JD and PhD from the University of Virginia. He has worked in law and banking and served as a policy advisor to both government and private sector clients. He is currently a macropolitical analyst in the investment industry. [End Page 1]

Paul Lauritzen is a Professor of Religious Studies at John Carroll University in Cleveland. He recently held the position of Brady Distinguished Visiting Scholar of Ethics and Civic Life at Northwestern University, which supported work on the essay published here. He is the author of The Ethics of Interrogation: Professional Responsibility in an Age of Terror (Georgetown University Press, forthcoming). His essay in this issue of Soundings is taken from the forthcoming volume.

Thomas W. Ogletree is the Frederick Marquand Professor Emeritus of Ethics and Religious Studies at Yale Divinity School and the university’s Graduate Department of Religious Studies. His published books include Christian Faith and History: A Critical Comparison of Ernst Troeltsch and Karl Barth; The Use of the Bible in Christian Ethics; Hospitality to the Stranger: Dimensions of Moral Understanding; and The World Calling: The Church’s Witness in Politics and Society, all available from Westminster John Knox Press.

Scott Paeth teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University in Chicago. His research focuses on theological and applied ethics as well as the intersection of religion and public life. He is the author or editor of five books, including Exodus Church and Civil Society (Ashgate, 2008), Religious Perspectives on Business Ethics (Sheed & Ward, 2006), and Public Theology for a Global Society (Eerdmans, 2009). [End Page 2]

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