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Pasquale Annicchino is a senior assistant professor of law at the University of Foggia, Italy. In 2020/2021 he taught global law and religion at Central European University (Vienna) and FGV-Direito Rio (Rio de Janeiro). He has been also an adjunct professor of law at Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School and at St. John’s University School of Law. He is the author of Law and International Religious Fredoom: The Rise and Decline of the American Model (2017).

Judd Birdsall is assistant professor of the practice in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University, where he is also a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and the project director of the Transatlantic Policy Network on Religion and Diplomacy (TPNRD). From 2011 to 2020 Birdsall was based at Cambridge University, where he earned his Ph.D., founded a research center on religion and international studies, and served as an affiliated lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies. Prior to his time at Cambridge, he served in the U.S. State Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom and on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff. Birdsall is the editor of Religion & Diplomacy, and his work has appeared in the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Guardian, Huffington Post, Christianity Today, and Religion & Politics. He is also a senior editor and a frequent contributor at the Review of Faith & International Affairs.

Kristina Stoeckl is assistant professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck and principal investigator of the project “Postsecular Conflicts.” Her publications include, among others, "The Legacy of Pitirim Sorokin in the Transnational Alliances of Moral Conservatives" in the Journal of Classical Sociology (2017, with Dmitry Uzlaner) and The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights (2014).

Marco Ventura is director of the Center for Religious Studies (Centro per le Scienze Religiose) of the Foundation Bruno Kessler in Trento, Italy. He is a full professor in the Department of Law at the University of Siena and studies law and religion, comparative religious laws, and canon law.