Gabor Halmai (Eotvos Lorand): Religion and Constitutionalism. Amy Erica Smith (Iowa State): Authoritarianism and Church Influence on Ideology and Behavior. Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Northwestern): Expert Religion: The Politics of Religious Difference in an Age of Freedom and Terror. The first chapter from Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd. Kamila Klingorova and Tomas Havlicek (Charles): Religion and Gender Inequality: The Status of Women in the Societies of World Religions. Jeremy Sabella reviews The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity by Todd Hartch and Latino Mennonites: Civil Rights, Faith and Evangelical Culture by Felipe Hinojosa. Joseph Morrill Kirby (ICS): On the Varieties of Religious Rationality: Plato (and the Buddha) versus the New Atheists. Americans are in the middle of the pack globally when it comes to importance of religion.
