Marcel Maussen is assistant professor in political science at the University of Amsterdam and the author of "The governance of Islam in Western Europe: A state of the art report" (2007) IMISCoe working paper No. 16, "Islamic presence and mosque establishment in France: Colonialism, arrangements for guest workers and citizenship" (2007) in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 33(6), Constructing Mosques: The governance of Islam in France and the Netherlands (PhD, University of Amsterdam) (2009), With R. Grillo, R. Ballard, A. Ferrari, A. Hoekema, and P. Shah (eds) Legal practice and cultural diversity (2009) Farnham: Ashgate, "The governance of Islam in France. Church-state traditions and colonial legacies" in T. Sunier and E. Sengers (eds.), Religious newcomers and the nation state: Political culture and organized religion in France and the Netherlands. Delft: Eburon, pp.131-154 Veit Bader is emeritus professor in social and political philosophy and sociology at the University of Amsterdam. Recent publications include: Secularism or Democracy? Associational governance of religious diversity (2007) Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press; 'Regimes of Governance of Religious Diversity in Europe: The Perils of Modelling' in V. Bader (ed.), Governing Islam in Western Europe: Essays on Governance of Religious Diversity, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS 33/6) August 2007, pp. 871-887; 'Secularism, Public Reason or Moderately Agonistic Democracy?' in Levey/Modood (eds.), Secularism, Religion, and Multicultural Citizenship. Cambridge UP: Cambridge, 2009, chapter 5; pp.110-135 (2009); 'Governance of Religious Diversity. Research problems and policy problems', in (eds.), M. Koenig and P. Bramadan (eds.), International Migration and the Governance of Religious Diversity. Queen's Policy Studies Series (2009), pp. 43-72; 'Legal Pluralism and Differentiated Morality: Shari'a in Ontario? in Grillo, R. et al. (eds) Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity. Ashgate (2009), pp. 49-72; Constitutionalizing Secularism, Alternative Secularisms or Liberal Democracy? A Critical Reading of Some Turkish, ECtHR and Indian Supreme Court Cases on 'Secularism'. Utrecht Law Journal, Issue 3, November 2010, pp. 8-35; Religions, Toleration, and Liberal Democracy: A Theory of Doctrinal, Institutional, and Attitudinal Learning', in Mookherjee, Monica (ed.) Democracy, Religious Pluralism and the Liberal Dilemma of Accommodation. Springer, 2011, pp. 17-46. Annelies Moors is professor of contemporary Muslim societies at the department of sociology and anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. She is co-director of the research programme group Globalizing Culture and the Quest for Belonging: Ethnographies of the Everyday, and director of the research program Muslim Cultural Politics at the AIssR (Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research). From 2001-2008, she served as the Amsterdam chair of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World Her publications include Women, property and Islam: Palestinian experiences 1920-1990 (Cambridge 1995). She edited special issues of Islamic Law and Society (2003, 'Debating family law'), Fashion Theory (2008 with Emma Tarlo, 'Fashionable Muslims') and Social Anthropology (2009 with Ruba Salih, '"Muslim women" in Europe') and book volumes on Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere (Indiana 2006, with Birgit Meyer) and Narratives of Truth in Islamic Law (London 2008, with Baudouin Dupret and Barbara Drieskens) (see http://sites. google.com/site/anneliesmoors). She is currently writing a book on face veiling in the Netherlands.