We are thankful to the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life and the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion at Columbia University as well as to the Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion and International Affairs for funding research and conferences on democracy in Muslim majority countries such as Indonesia. Thanks also go to Melissa Van and Emily Brennan for their organizational assistance. The chapters of this book were improved greatly by the intellectually rich contributions by several other conference participants and colleagues to whom we want to give special thanks: Dodi Ambardi, Azyumardi Azra, Michael Buehler, Greg Fealy, Colm Fox, Robert Hefner, Nadirsyah Hosen, Jeremy Menchik, and Musdah Mulia.