1. Some Theoretical Commonalities between European Integration Process and the Cults of Saints Process. Connection through Spill-over Effect? • Henri Aaltonen, University of Helsinki.

2. The Impact of Resource Dependency of Indian Higher Christian Educators in Constructing the State of Exception • salomi Jacob, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

3. Puritan Political Theology in the Massachusetts Bay Colony: Divinely Ordained Popular Sovereignty in Church and Civil Government • Can Mert Kökerer, The University of Chicago.

4. Principal-Agent Problem, Fiscal Strategy, and Buddhism in the Southern Song Dynasty • Katrina Q. Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison.