Contributors Greg Barton is a lecturer in Religious and Asian Studies at Deakin University. I-Iis 1995 PhD dissertation, entitled 'The Emergence of Neo-Modernism; a Progressive Liberal Movement of Islamic Thought in Indonesia: A Testual Study Examining the Writings of Nurcholish Madjid, qjohan Effendi, Ahmad Wahib and Abdurrahman Wahid, 1968-1980', will be published in Indonesian by Yayasan Paratnadina, Jakarta, in 1996. Greg Fealy is currently completing a doctoral dissertation on the political history of Nahdlatul Ulama, 1952-1968, in the History Department, Monash University. His publications include The Relecr.re c?flndonesicr :s Political Prisoners Domestic Versus Foreign Policy, lY75-197Y (Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, Clayton, 19()5). Andree Feillard lived in Indonesia for seventeen years, during which time she worked as a journalist for Agence France Presse and Asiaweek. Upon returning to France, she undertook post-graduate studies at the Ecole des Hautes en Sciences Sociales, graduating in 1993. Her dissertation examined the relationship between Nahdlatul Ulama and the state, 1965-1993. She is the author of Islum ct arnlc'e dans I'/ndonc'sie contemporaine (Islam and the army in contemporary Indonesia), (L'Harmattan, Paris, 1995), and is currently a researcher at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris Mitsuo Nakamura is Professor of Anthropology at Chiba University, Japan. He has written extensively on Indonesian Islam, including The Cirsccnt Over the Banyan Tree. A Sfudy of the Muhammcmiyah Movement in a Central Javanese Town (Gadjah Mada University Press. Yogyakarta, 1983), based on his Cornell PhD thesis. Douglas E. Ramage is a reseaaarch fellow at the East-West Center, Hawaii. A former Fulbright Scholar in Indonesia, he previously held appointments at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore and the University of Hawaii. He is the author of Politics in Indonesia: Democracy, Islam and the Ideology of Tolerance (Routledge, London, 1995). Martin van Bruinessen is a soicial anthropologist, who spent almost a decade in Indonesia teaching and doint research on various aspects of Indonesian Islam. His publication include NU, Tradisi, Relasi-Relasi Kuasa, dan Pencarian Wacana Baru (NU, Tradition, Relations with Authority, and the Search for a New Discourse), (LKis, Yogyakarta, 1994). He is presently a lecturer in Turkish and Kurdish studies at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.