Each from their own discipline and perspective, these scholars contribute to the question of whether, in the present-day pluralist state, there is room for state symbolism or personal religious signs or attire in the public school classroom.

Jeroen Temperman is associate professor of public international law at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also the editor-in-chief of Religion & Human Rights. In 2010, his book State-Religion Relationships and Human Rights Law was published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.