Dmytro Bintsarovskyi
is a post-doctoral researcher at the Theologische Universiteit Kampen/Utrecht, the Netherlands. He received his PhD degree (cum laude) in 2019 from the Theologische Universiteit Kampen. A more accessible version of his dissertation was published as a book under the title Hidden and Revealed: The Doctrine of God in the Reformed and Eastern Orthodox Traditions in the series Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology, published by Lexham Press.
Dustin J. Byrd
is professor of philosophy and religion at The University of Olivet in Michigan, USA. He is also a visiting professor of religious studies at Michigan State University. A specialist in the critical theory of religion and psychoanalytic political theory, he is the founder and co-director of the Institute for Critical Social Theory and has published numerous books on political religion and political philosophy.
Veronica Cibotaru
is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Tübingen, College of Fellows – Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies. She works in the fields of philosophy of religion, language and artificial intelligence. She has published several articles devoted to the relationship between ethics and the idea of God, the phenomenology of religious experience, the difference between religion and spirituality and to the possibility of interreligious dialogue. Previously she has also worked as a journalist for the Orthodox French website Orthodoxie.com, and has published articles and given interviews for other newspapers such as Le Monde and Le Point.
Rosita Garškaitė-Antonowicz
is an assistant professor at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University. She recently defended her dissertation on the relationship between Catholicism and the popular support for European integration. Her research interests include the intersection of religion and politics, Euroscepticism, the Far Right, post-communist transformation, and interpretive methodologies.
Zoran Grozdanov
is an associate professor at the University Centre for Protestant Theology Matthias Flacius Illyricus in Zagreb. As an author or an editor, he has published
Anne Guillard
is doing post-doctoral research at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom) funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Her research focuses on the political theory of public reason and the religious claims to integrate it. She explores the use of religious experience and Christian reference in public discourse. She analyses the underlying types of political theology mobilised by political and religious leaders in France, Italy and Hungary. She holds a double doctorate in Political Theory from Sciences Po Paris and in Christian Theology from the University of Geneva.
Sophia R. C. Johnson
is a postdoctoral researcher in Hebrew Bible at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany. Her research centres on the political uses of and influences on interpretation of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, both in its original ancient context and in modern reception history. Sophia received her PhD from the University of Cambridge where she was also lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity and researcher at the Centre for Geopolitics. Sophia currently works with Prof. Dr. Joachim J. Krause on the project “Josua Postkolonial” funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which uses postcolonial theories to re-examine the biblical book of Joshua in its ancient imperial context. She has published in journals such as Journal of the Bible and Its Reception, Journal of Biblical Literature, and most recently Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft.
Petr Kratochvíl
is a full professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University, a senior researcher at the Institute of International Relations in Prague, and lecturer at Metropolitan University Prague. He also teaches at Sciences-Po in Paris and at Metropolitan University of Prague. His research interests include the religion-politics nexus, theories of international relations, European integration, and Russian foreign policy. He has published extensively on all these topics, with dozens of books, book chapters and scholarly articles, including in top journals such as Journal of Common Market Studies, Cooperation and Conflict, Geopolitics, and the Journal of European Integration. In 2023, his co-authored
Katharina Kunter
is professor of contemporary church history at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Her research focuses on the intersections between political history and the history of religion and culture. In her first book Die Kirchen im KSZE-Prozess 1968–1978 (2000), she examined the role of the churches in the period of Détente in the 1970s. Further studies examined Christian political opposition and conformance in communist Central and Eastern Europe, especially in Protestantism in the GDR: Erfüllte Hoffnungen und zerbrochene Träume. Evangelische Kirchen in Deutschland im Spannungsfeld von Demokratie und Sozialismus 1980–1993 (2004) and ‘Es gibt keinen Gott!’ Kirchen und Kommunismus. Eine Konfliktgeschichte (2016). She is currently working on a study on the geopolitical role of Christianity in the twentieth century.
Jenny Leith
is lecturer in Christian ethics at Westcott House, Cambridge. Her research brings together political theology, ecclesiology, and spirituality, and she is the author of Political Formation: Being Formed by the Spirit in Church and World (SCM Press, 2023). Her interest in the relationship between Christian faith and participation in political life grew out of several years spent working as a parliamentary researcher and in social policy.
Anastasia Litina
is an associate professor in the School of Economics and Regional Studies, Department of Economics, at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics (University of Macedonia, 2009), has visited Brown University as a visiting researcher for a semester, and worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Luxembourg. Her main research interests lie in the field of economic growth, comparative development, the economics of culture, environmental economics and cultural economics. Her publications appeared in the Journal of Economic Growth; Research Policy; Harvard Business Review; Journal of the Economic Behavior and Organization; and in Religion, State and the Society.
Lauren Morry
is a post-award visitor at the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Theology and Religion. She completed her DPhil in 2023 with the thesis The Palace and
Konstantinos Papastathis
is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. With a research background that spans internationally academic institutions such as the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Luxembourg and Leiden University, his expertise lies in politics and religion, populism, church history, and Middle Eastern studies. Dr. Papastathis has made significant contributions to top field academic journals including Religion, State and Society; Politics, Religion and Ideology; Middle Eastern Studies; British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies; Journal of Eastern Christian Studies; and Jerusalem Quarterly, along with several collective volumes.
Erik Sporon Fiedler
is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is currently working on the individual research project ‘Paternal Care? A Contemporary Intellectual History of Lutheranism, Welfare, and Gender’ funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. He has previously been HM Queen Margrethe II’s Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at the Danish Academy in Rome, where he worked on the research project ‘Economic Religion’ also funded by the Carlsberg Foundation.
Ivan Tranfić
holds a PhD in political science and sociology from the Scuola Normale Superiore and is a member of the Center of Social Movement Studies (COSMOS) in Florence, Italy. He holds a BA and an MA degree in Political Science from the University of Zagreb, and an MA in Nationalism Studies from Central European University, Budapest. His research explores the role of lay activists, churches, and parental associations in movement mobilization for traditional family values. Specifically, his PhD project examined radical-right opposition to ‘gender ideology’ and abortion in Southeast Europe.
Leon van den Broeke
is professor in theology of law and church polity at the Theological University Utrecht, the Netherlands. Until recently, he also worked at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His teaching and research includes church-state relations.
is Landecker Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, specialising in the comparative study of religion in constitutional law, politics, and society. She is author of the book Constitutional Intolerance: The Fashioning of the Other in Europe’s Constitutional Repertoires (2025). Previously she was the inaugural Alfred Landecker Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government, and College Lecturer in Politics at St Peter’s and Lincoln College, and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge. She obtained graduate degrees in law, history (Utrecht University), and religion (Yale University) before completing her doctorate in politics at the University of Cambridge.
Marko Veković
is associate professor of religion and politics at University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Science, Serbia. He has been appointed as a visiting scholar at Temple University (2014), Columbia University (2016), and as a post-doctoral scholar at University of Erfurt (2019). His work has been published in Democratization, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Journal of Church and State, Nordic Journal of Religion and Society, and his most recent book is Democratization in Christian Orthodox Europe: Comparing Greece, Serbia and Russia (Routledge, 2021).