About 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
• Eti Paz, Bar Ilan 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
• Lev Topor, Bar Ilan University
• Ariel Zellmanm Bar Ilan University