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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).

Clifford Bob is professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at Duquesne University. He is the author of The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media, and International Activism (2005), The Global Right Wing and the Clash of World Politics (2012), and Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power (2019).

José Casanova is one of the world's leading scholars in the sociology of religion and a senior fellow at the Berkley Center, where his work focuses on globalization, religions, and secularization. He is also professor emeritus at Georgetown University, where he previously taught in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Theology and Religious Studies. During 2017 he was the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the North at the U.S. Library of Congress' John W. Kluge Center, where he worked on a book manuscript on Early Modern Globalization through a Jesuit Prism. He has published works on a broad range of subjects, including religion and globalization, migration and religious pluralism, transnational religions, and sociological theory. His best-known work, Public Religions in the Modern World (University of Chicago Press, 1994), has become a modern classic in the field and has been translated into several languages, including Japanese, Arabic, and Turkish. In 2012, Casanova was awarded the Theology Prize from the Salzburger Hochschulwochen in recognition of his life-long achievement in the field of theology. Casanova is a member of the Working Group on Displaced Persons and Hospitality to the Stranger, part of the Culture of Encounter Project.

Shaun Casey is a senior fellow with the Luce Project on Religion and Its Publics at the University of Virginia and a Pulaski Institution non-resident fellow. He served as director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and professor of the practice in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University from 2017 to 2021. He previously was U.S. special representative for religion and global affairs and director of the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Religion and Global Affairs. He has also served as professor of Christian ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC, and held positions at the Center for American Progress and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Casey has written on the ethics of the war in Iraq, as well the role of religion in American presidential politics. He is the author of The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960 (2009) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Political Theology (forthcoming, with Michael Kessler); he is writing a book on ethics and international politics tentatively titled Niebuhr’s Children. Casey holds a B.A. from Abilene Christian University, MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, and M.Div. and Th.D. in religion and society from Harvard Divinity School.

Seth Dowland is professor and chair of the Department of Women's and Gender Studies and associate professor in the Department of Religion and Pacific Lutheran University. He is the author of Family Values and the Rise of Christian Right (2015) and is currently working on a new book, Purity and Power: a History of White Christian Masculinity in America. 

James D. Hunter is LaBrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia, as well as executive director of the university's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. He authored the seminal 1992 work Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America, which re-introduced the term "culture war" into popular usage. He is the author of eight other books, edited four books, and published a wide range of essays, articles, and reviews—all variously concerned with the problem of meaning and moral order in a time of political and cultural change in American life. His newest book is Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality (2018). 

Marlene Laruelle is research professor of international affairs at the George Washington University's Elliott School of National Affairs, director of the university's Central Asia Program, and director of its Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. Her books include Understanding Russia: The Challenges of Transformation (2018) and Is Russia Fascist? Unraveling Propaganda East and West (2021).

Bethany Moreton is professor of history and a faculty affiliate and steering committee member for the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Dartmouth University, as well as series editor for Studies in the History of Capitalism. Her books include To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (2009).