LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Paul Cliteur Professor of Jurisprudence University of Leiden, PhD in Philosophy (1985) and Law (1984). His most recent books are Th e Secular Outlook: In Defense of Moral and Political Secularism (2010) and Esperanto Moral: por un etica laïca (2009). Pieter Coertzen Professor of Church History and Church Law (1977–2010) University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Currently, founder of a Unit for the Study of Law and Religion in the Faculty of Th eology, University of Stellenbosch. Visiting Professor in Compara- tive Canon Law, Catholic University of Leuven. Publishes in the fi elds of Church Law, Law and Religion and the History of the Huguenots. Tamás Juhász, PhD (1983) is Professor in Systematic Th eology at the Protestant Th eological Seminary in Cluj/Kolozsvár, Romania. He has published on the theology of reformed confessions and ecclesiology. Huub Lems (1952), is treasurer of Eukumindo, a German Association for European Missions focusing on Indonesia. He serves as treasurer of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands and is administrator of the Mission Foundation of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands. He holds a master in economics from the Erasmus University Rot- terdam (1977) and a master in laws from the Open University Maas- tricht (2005). He has published on mission, charity, philanthropy and ecumenism. Silviu Eugen Rogobete joined the Diplomatic Corps of the Roma- nian Ministry of Foreign Aff airs in October 2006. Prior to that he was an Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Politics at the West University of Timisoara, where he taught courses on Foundations and the Practice of Human Rights, Philosophical and Political Anthropol- ogy, Religion and Politics. Rik Torfs (1956) studied law, canon law and Notary Public Stud- ies at Leuven and Strasbourg University. Professor of canon law and 262 list of contributors religion-state relationships at Leuven University since 1988. He also teaches at the universities of Stellenbosch, Strasbourg and Paris. He is the author of 15 books and 300 scientifi c articles. His activities include being a columnist for the Belgian newspaper De Standaard and a television maker. In 2010, he was elected a member of the Belgian Senate. Abraham van de Beek is professor in the Christian Creeds at VU University Amsterdam and extraordinary professor in Systematic Th e- ology at the university of Stellenbosch. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Humanities. He wrote on almost all topics of systematic theology with a focus on Christology and Patris- tics. He has also got a PhD in botany. Eduardus Van der Borght PhD (2000) in Th eology, Leiden Univer- sity, is Desmond Tutu Professor and Associate Professor of Systematic Th eology at VU University Amsterdam. He has published on theology of ministry, ecclesiology and public theology. Tymen J. van der Ploeg (1947) studied Law at Leyden University. He works since November 1972 at the Faculty of Law of the VU-Uni- versity at Amsterdam, since 1992 as full professor in civil law, espe- cially law on legal persons and partnerships. He teaches company law, law on associations and foundations and—in cooperation with other legal and theological researchers—religious communities and law. His research includes these topics, also from a comparative perspective. He is editor-in-chief of the NTKR (Netherlands Journal on Church and Law) and a member of the board of the Centre on Church and Law at the VU-University. Ben P. Vermeulen (1957) is Professor of Education law at the Rad- boud University Nijmegen, Professor of Constitutional Law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Member of the Council of State (Raad van State). He studied law and philosophy at the Erasmus Univer- sity Rotterdam, where he defended his dissertation on the freedom of conscience (Vrijheid van geweten) in 1989. Vermeulen has published several books and numerous articles on the freedom of religion and conscience, the separation of church and state, the status of denomi- national schools and other related subjects..