Mark Juergensmeyer is distinguished professor emeritus of sociology and global studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends (University of California Press 2022), Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State (University of California Press 2008), Why God Needs War and War Needs God (forthcoming with Oxford University Press), and the widely-read Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (University of California Press, revised edition 2003). Juergensmeyer is co-editor of Rethinking Secularism, a SSRC volume published by Oxford University Press.