Kaius Sinnemäki ( https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6972-5216), PhD, is Associate Professor in Quantitative and Comparative Linguistics at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is a linguist whose work focuses on language comparison, language complexity, and methodology in linguistics as well as on nationalism, language, and religion. His current research interests include the ways in which linguistic structures may adapt to different sociolinguistic environments in which languages are learned and used. Sinnemäki’s work has been published in Finnish and international journals and edited volumes and he has co-edited, for instance, the volume Language Complexity: Typology, Contact, Change (2008).

Anneli Portman( https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3409-4506), PhD, works as a specialist in the city of Helsinki. Her publications include a study on rhetorical values, From Might to Mandate: Values in Ruler’s Public Speeches in Finland 1809–2000 (2014).

Jouni Tilli ( https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4197-8147), PhD, works as a researcher at the Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is a political scientist whose research focuses on rhetoric, political theology, history politics, nationalism, and political theory. Tilli’s current research interest lies in contemporary political rhetoric about immigration and Lutheran forms of pastoral power. Tilli’s work has been published in Finnish and international journals, edited books, and monographs. His most recent publication is National Rhetorics in the Syrian Immigration Crisis: Victims, Frauds, and Floods (2019, with Clarke Rountree).

Robert H. Nelson (1944–2018), PhD in economics, was a Professor of Environmental Policy in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland and a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, California. Since 1975 he served as a senior economist in the office of the secretary of the Interior for 19 years. He was a nationally recognized authority on public and private land and natural resource management. He wrote widely on the relationship of culture and religion and economic policy, publishing more than 100 articles and several books, including Zoning and Property Rights (1977), Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics (1991), Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond (2001), The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion vs. Environmental Religion in Contemporary America (2010), God? Very Probably: Five Rational Ways of Thinking About the Question of a God (2015), and Lutheranism and the Nordic Spirit of Social Democracy: A Different Protestant Ethic (2017). His popular articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, Financial Times, Weekly Standard, Policy Review, and many other newspapers and magazines.