The Religion and State Project

The collection of round 1 of the religion and State (RAS) dataset was supported by the Israel Science Foundation (Grant 896/00) and the Sara and Simha Lainer Chair in Democracy and Civility. Round 2 was supported by the John Templeton Foundation as part of its grant funding the Association of Religion Data Archives. Round 3 was supported by the Israel Science Foundation (Grant 23/14), The German-Israel Foundation (Grant 1291-119.4/2015).

Project founder and coordinator: Jonathan Fox.

Research Associates:

Yasemin Akbaba, Gettysburg College

Christopher D, Bader, Chapman University

Matthias Basedau, GIGA: German Institute of Global Area Studies

Jocelyne Cesari, University of Birmingham

Marie A. Eisenstein, Indiana University Northwest

Deborah Flores

Roger Finke, Penn State University

Patrick James, University of Southern California

Yitan Li, Seattle University

Robert Martin, Southeastern Louisiana University

Dane R. Mataic, Penn State University

Jennifer McClure, Samford University

Nahshon Perez, Bar Ilan University

Jonathan Rynhold, Bar Ilan University

Nukhet Sandal, Ohio University

Shmuel Sandler, Bar Ilan University

Ani Sarkissian, Michigan State University

Ephraim Tabory, Bar Ilan University

Ariel Zellmanm Bar Ilan University

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