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Paul Christopher Manuel is a research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University and a local affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University. He also teaches in Georgetown's Department of Government, McCourt School of Public Policy, and School of Continuing Studies. Manuel’s scholarship has contributed to the democratization literature in Portugal, with a focus on religion in a post-transition setting. He has authored or co-authored fourteen books and numerous scholarly articles, including Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare: Associational Life and Religion in Africa and Latin America (2024, with Miguel Glatzer and Christine Gustafson); Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare: Associational Life and Religion in Contemporary Eastern Europe (2020, with Miguel Glatzer); Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare: Associational Life and Religion in Contemporary Western Europe (2019, with Miguel Glatzer); Religion and Politics in a Global Society: Comparative Perspectives from the Portuguese-Speaking World (2012, edited with Alynna Lyon and Clyde Wilcox); and Pope Francis as a Global Actor: Where Politics and Theology Meet, Second Edition (2026, with Alynna Lyon and Christine Gustafson). He is currently working on the fourth edition of his edited series, titled Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare: Associational Life and Religion in South Asia, with Miguel Glatzer and Christine Gustafson. He has also previously taught at the School of Public Affairs at American University, at Mount St. Mary’s University, and at Saint Anselm College. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Boston University, an M.T.S. from the School of Theology and Ministry at Boston College (formerly the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts), and a Ph.D. in government from Georgetown University.