Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Joseph Marko -- Copyright Page / Joseph Marko -- Notes on Contributors / Joseph Marko -- Chapter 1 Introduction: State, Law, and Religious Diversity / Joseph Marko -- Chapter 2 Human Rights and the Osmosis between Secular and Religious Legal Systems / Alessandro Ferrari -- Chapter 3 Protection or Persecution? The State, the Law, and Minority Religion / Eileen Barker -- Chapter 4 Historicizing the Secularization Debate: A Helpful Illustration from Bosnia and Herzegovina / Dino Abazović -- Chapter 5 Russia’s Conservative Challenge to Human Rights in Europe / Mikhail Antonov -- Chapter 6 Multiculturalizing Secularism / Tariq Modood -- Chapter 7 Beyond the State Law versus God’s Law Dilemma: A Genealogical Approach to Islamic Concepts of Law, Politics, and Sovereignty / Jocelyne Cesari -- Chapter 8 Religious Diversity, Secularisms, and Ideologies: Comparing Western and Muslim Countries / Ahmet T. Kuru -- Chapter 9 Is a Comparative History of Western and Islamic Political Thought Possible? / Joseph Marko -- Chapter 10 Religion, Gender, and Law: A Tense Relationship / Kerstin Wonisch -- Chapter 11 Critical Reflections on the Androcentrism of Religious Norms: The Heteronomy of the Female Body / Dina El Omari -- Chapter 12 Canon and Tradition in Transition: The Case of Gender in Israel / Henriette Dahan Kalev -- Chapter 13 Religion, Human Rights and Education in Pluralistic Societies: Re-visiting John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas / Manfred L. Pirner -- Chapter 14 The Question of Truth within the Context of (Religious) Plurality: A Challenge for Religious Education / Andrea Lehner-Hartmann -- Chapter 15 Pluralistic Society as a Challenge for Islamic Education: An Example from Austria / Zekirija Sejdini -- Chapter 16 Religious Education in a Pluralistic Society: Opportunities, Challenges, and Legal Conclusions / Wolfgang Weirer -- Chapter 17 Islamic Fundamentalism: Beyond Islamism, Extremism, and Political Islam / Rüdiger Lohlker -- Chapter 18 Fundamentalisms Old and New? Intra-religious Developments and Inter-denominational Alliances in the New Christian Right in Austria / Katharina Limacher -- Chapter 19 The Varieties of Fundamentalism: A Comparative Approach to the Use of a Very Popular Term with a Buddhist Side-Step / Franz Winter -- Chapter 20 Reconsidering the Transnational Dimension of Religion and Conflict / Maximilian Lakitsch -- Chapter 21 Interreligious Dialogue in a Pandemic Reality: Between Priority and Luxury / Mohammed Abu-Nimer -- Chapter 22 Religious Perspectives and Their Relevance for Peace: A Few Concluding Remarks on Interreligious Dialogue / Maximilian Lakitsch -- Index / Joseph Marko.

Globalisation, migration, and (de-)secularisation have fundamentally transformed the concepts of religion, state, and law during the last decades. The main goal of this interdisciplinary approach is to clarify the multifaceted theoretical and practical challenges of religious diversity and socio-political pluralism in Europe. In twenty-two chapters, the contributions to this volume revisit basic concepts, structures and institutional settings such as sovereignty; the dogma of the separation of state, church and/or religion; human and minority rights; gender and religion; varieties of fundamentalisms; interreligious dialogue and peacebuilding; and, not least, religious education.

English

Description based on print version record.