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Anne-Laure Zwilling is an established researcher at the joint research unit Droit, Religion, Entreprise, Société of the University of Strasbourg and the French National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS), where she is the director of several international research projects. She holds MA degrees in philosophy and religious studies, a PhD in religious sciences and a habilitation in religious anthropology. Her fields of interest are religious minorities in France and Europe, the recent changes in the European religious landscape, and religious founding texts. Her recent publications include Les minorités religieuses en France. Panorama de la diversité contemporaine (Bayard, 2019); Indifférence religieuse ou athéisme militant (PUG, 2020); Religion and Prison: State Governance and Social Issues. A European Comparative Overview (Springer, 2020).

Helge Årsheim is Associate Professor of religion, worldviews and ethics at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from the University of Oslo. His current research explores the ways in which religion travels across different levels of governance in international and domestic legislation and jurisprudence. He has published extensively on these themes in journals and edited volumes. He is the author of Making Religion at the United Nations (Walter de Gruyter 2018), a case study of the genealogy and current approaches to religion at the United Nations


Erlend Hovdkinn From is a doctoral research fellow at the University of Oslo, specialising in sociology of nonreligion with his current project on ‘nonreligious identities in Oslo’. Hovdkinn From is postgraduate from the University of Oslo (MA Religion and Society) and from Goldsmiths College (MA World Cities and Urban Life