Darren Walhof is Professor of Political Science at Grand Valley State University, USA. His research interests include democratic theory, philosophical hermeneutics, religion and politics, early modern political thought, and methods in the history of political thought. His articles have appeared in Political Theory, History of Political Thought, Philosophy & Social Criticism, and Contemporary Political Theory, among other places. With Derek Peterson, he is the co-editor of The Invention of Religion: Rethinking Belief in Politics and History (2002). In 2010, he was Visiting Research Professor at the Centre for Ethics in the University of Toronto, Canada.