Jonathan Chaplin received his PhD from London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is a specialist in Christian political thought and public theology and is a member of the Divinity Faculty of Cambridge University and a Senior Fellow of Cardus, a Canadian Christian think-tank. He has particular interests in the role of religion in a liberal democracy; secularism, multiculturalism and pluralism; and civil society and the state. He has taught at three institutions in the UK, as well as at institutions in Canada and the Netherlands. His publications include God and Global Order: The Power of Religion in American Foreign Policy (Baylor University Press, 2010) (co-editor), God and Government (SPCK, 2009) (co-editor) and Talking God: The Legitimacy of Religious Public Reasoning (Theos, 2009). He responded to the debate over the Archbishop of Canterbury’s controversial speech on sharia law in ‘Legal Monism and Religious Pluralism: Rowan Williams on Religion, Loyalty and Law,’ International Journal of Public Theology 2.4 (2008), 1-24. He writes on religion and secularism for Guardian CiF Belief and is currently writing a book entitled Faith in Democracy? Towards a Post-secularist Settlement.