Paolo Naso teaches Political Science at Sapienza University of Rome, where he also coordinates the Master’s program in Religions and Cultural Mediation. Over the course of his academic career, he has held teaching positions in the United States (at Wake Forest University and Davidson College, both in North Carolina) and in Germany (Wittenberg). For the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy, he coordinates Mediterranean Hope – Refugees and Migrants Program and the Commission for Studies, Dialogue, and Integration. He collaborates with several research institutes, including the Centro Studi Confronti, the Sangalli Foundation, the Biblia Association, and the Methodist Study Center. He also provides consulting services for various public and private institutions, including the Ministry of the Interior, for which he coordinated the Council for Relations with Islam. Among his many publications are: Religions Are Paths to Peace. False! (Laterza, 2019); with M. Ambrosini and C. Paravati, The God of Migrants (Il Mulino, 2019); The Post-Secular Unknown (Guida, 2015); Pentecostals (EMI, 2013); Like a City on a Hill: The Puritan Tradition and the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.A.
