Levi McLaughlin is associate professor at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at North Carolina State University. He is coauthor and coeditor of Kōmeitō: Politics and Religion in Japan (IEAS Berkeley, 2014), coeditor of the special issue “Salvage and Salvation: Religion and Disaster Relief in Asia” (Asian Ethnology, June 2016), and author of Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan (University of Hawai`i Press, 2019), as well as numerous articles and book chapters on intersections of religion and politics.