Wolfram Weisse is Senior Research Fellow at the Academy of World Religions at Hamburg University. He is founding director of the Academy ofWorld Religions and leads the international research project “Religion and Dialogue in Modern Societies“ funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany. His main research interests are empirical and theoretical research on religious education, interreligious and intercultural learning in a multicultural context, ecumenical theology, religious education in the context of different European societies. He has published on "Religious Pluralisation and Secularisation in Continental Europe" in "Society", Vol. 53, 2016;  and he is co-editor of the books "Religions and Dialogue. International Approaches" (ed. with Katajun Amirpur, Anna Körs, Dörthe Vieregge: Waxmann 2014) and  "Perspektiven Dialogischer Theologie. Offenheit in den Religionen und eine Hermeneutik des interreligiösen Dialogs" (ed. with Katajun Amirpur, Thorsten Knauth, Carola Roloff; Waxmann 2016).

Jean-Paul Willaime is emeritus director of studies of the Religious Studies section at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, PSL Research University, Sorbonne,  France. His main research interests are sociology of protestantism, theories and methods in socology of religions, the connection between school and religions, European integration and the relation between state and religions, laicism, democracy and religious pluralism. On the theoretic level he worked out the concept of ultramodernity to portray the issues of secularism in France and Europe. Publications include: Religious and Philosophical Diversity as a Challenge for the Secularism : A Belgian-French Comparison in Religious Pluralism(Giuseppe Giordan and Enzo Pace eds.), Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2014, pp. 63-72.