Religious Interests in Community Conflict: Beyond the Culture Wars

About the Contributors

h 325 About the Contributors MICHAEL W. BOWERS is vice provost for academic affairs and profesw w sor of political science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is author of The Sagebrush State: Nevada’s History, Government, and Politics (University of Nevada Press, 2006), now in its third edition, and The Nevada State Constitution: A Reference Guide (Greenwood, 1993). JOSHUA COPELAND is a recent graduate of Furman University. SUE E. S. CRAWFORD is associate professor of political science at Creighton University. She is coauthor of Women with a Mission: Relis s gion, Gender, and the Politics of Women Clergy (University of Alabama Press, 2005) and coeditor of Christian Clergy in American Politics (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). DAVID F. DAMORE is assistant professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is an expert on public opinion and congressional politics. PAUL A. DJUPE is associate professor of political science at Denison University. He is coauthor of The Prophetic Pulpit: Clergy, Churches, and Community in American Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003) and Relis s gious Institutions and Minor Parties in the United States (Praeger, 1999), and coeditor of The Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics (Facts on File, 2003). JAMES L. GUTH is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Political Science at Furman University. He is coauthor of The Bully Pulpit: The Politics of Protestant Clergy (University Press of Kansas, 1997), Religion and the Culture Wars: Dispatches from the Front (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996), and The Bible and the Ballot Box: Religion and Politics in the 1988 Elections (Westview, 1991). TED G. JELEN is professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Recent books include (as coauthor) A Wall of Sepas s ration? Debating the Public Role of Religion (Rowman & Littlefield 1998), (as editor) Sacred Markets, Sacred Canopies: Essays on Religious Markets and Religious Pluralism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), and (as coeditor) Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective: The One, the Few, and the Many (Cambridge University Press, 2002). LYMAN A. KELLSTEDT is professor of political science emeritus at Wheaton College. He is coauthor of The Bully Pulpit: The Politics of Prots s estant Clergy (University Press of Kansas, 1997) and Religion and the Culture Wars: Dispatches from the Front (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996), and coeditor of Rediscovering the Religious Factor in American Politics (M. E. Sharpe, 1993). J. QUIN MONSON is assistant professor of political science and assisw w tant director of the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy at Brigham Young University. He is coeditor of Dancing Without Parts s ners: How Candidates, Parties, and Interest Groups Interact in the Presidens s tial Campaign (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006) and Electing Congress: New Rules for an Old Game (Prentice Hall, 2006). JACOB NEIHEISEL is an undergraduate student at Denison Univerw w sity. FRANKLYN C. NILES is associate professor of political science at John Brown University. An expert on American political behavior, elections, political parties, religion and politics, his work has been published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion and Political Perspectives: Essays on Government and Politics (Kendall/Hunt, 2005). KARA L. NORMAN is a recent graduate of Brigham Young Univerw w sity. 326 About the Contributors LAURA R. OLSON is professor of political science at Clemson Univerw w sity. Recent books include (as coauthor) Women with a Mission: Relis s gion, Gender, and the Politics of Women Clergy (University of Alabama Press, 2005) and Religion and Politics in America: Faith, Culture, and Stras s tegic Choices (Westview, 2003), and (as coeditor) The Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics (Facts on File, 2003) and Christian Clergy in American Politics (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). JAMES M. PENNING is professor of political science at Calvin College. He is coeditor of Sojourners in the Wilderness: The Christian Right in Comparative Perspective (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997) and coauthor of Evangelicalism: The Next Generation (Baker, 2002) and Divided by a Coms s mon Heritage: The Christian Reformed Church and the Reformed Church in America at the Beginning of the Millennium (Eerdmans, 2006). CHRISTINE ROWLAND is a recent graduate of Furman University. ANAND EDWARD SOKHEY is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at The Ohio State University. His research interests include American political behavior, public opinion, religion and politics, and methodw w ology. ANDREW STORTEBOOM is a recent graduate of Calvin College. About the Contributors 327 ...