**About the Editors**

**Timothy S. Shah** serves as a Distinguished Research Scholar at the University of Dallas and Project Architect for the Religious Freedom Institute's (RFI) Freedom of Religious Institutions in Society (FORIS) project. Prior to this, among other initiatives he helped spearhead, Shah led RFI's South and Southeast Asia Action Team and directed Georgetown University's Berkley Center's Religious Freedom project, a precursor to RFI. Some of the books he has authored, edited, or contributed to as a co-author include *God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics* (2011), *Religious Freedom: Why Now? Defending an Embattled Human Right* (2012); *Religious Freedom and Gay Rights: Emerging Conflicts in the United States and Europe* (2016), *Under Caesar's Sword: How Christian's Respond to Persecution* (2018), and *Homo Religious? Exploring the Roots of Religion and Religious Freedom in Human Experience* (2018). Shah's work as a political scientist evinces a focus on the history, theory, and contemporary state of the interrelationship between religion and politics. Shah earned his A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.

**Nathan A. Berkeley** serves as Communications Director and Research Coordinator of the Religious Freedom Institute. He leads RFI's efforts to convey its work to a wide range of external audiences and supports RFI's scholars in major research initiatives. Berkeley has served in governmen<sup>t</sup> in numerous communications, legislative affairs, program management, and law enforcement capacities and has held positions in two congressional offices. He has also conducted research and writing that explores the intersection of religious freedom, equality, and nondiscrimination law. Berkeley holds B.A. degrees in Political Science and History from Olivet Nazarene University and an M.A. in Politics from The Catholic University of America.
