Anders Berg-Sørensen is an assistant professor in political theory at the Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus. He has written the doctoral dissertation (Paradiso-Diaspora. Reframing the Question of Religion in Politics) and essays in Danish, Scandinavian and international journals such as Political Theory and Journal of International Affairs on secularism, religion and politics. He is currently doing research on the democratic negotiations of religion and politics in European political thinking and public cultures and he is editing the forthcoming book Contesting Secularism – Comparative Perspectives.