Preliminary Material / P. Michel and E. Pace -- Religious Pluralization And Intimations Of A Post-Westphalian Condition In A Global Society / Peter Beyer -- Resurgent Religion In Politics: The Martyr, The Convert And The Black Knight Of Apocalypse / Enzo Pace -- Religious, Political And Global / Patrick Michel -- Complicating The “Clash Of Civilizations”: Gender And Politics In Contemporary Kuwait / Alessandra L. González and Lubna Al-Kazi -- The “Social Integration” Of Religious Groups In Society: A Social Mechanism Approach / Jörg Stolz -- Christian Religion In The West: Privatization Or Public Revitalization? / Johan Roeland , Peter Achterberg , Dick Houtman , Stef Aupers , Willem De Koster , Peter Mascini and Jeroen Van Der Waal -- The Cultural Foundations Of Islamist Leadership In Morocco / Mohammed Maarouf -- The Protestant House Church And Its Poverty Of Rights In China / Zhaohui Hong -- Rethinking The Role Of The Catholic Church In Building Civil Society In Contemporary China: The Case Of Wenzhou Diocese / Shun-Hing Chan -- India: The Politics Of (Re)conversion To Hinduism Of Christian Aboriginals / Christophe Jaffrelot -- Religion And Politics: The Italian Case / Franco Garelli -- The Reciprocal Instrumentalization Of Religion And Politics In Brazil / Ricardo Mariano and Ari Pedro Oro -- The Reinvention Of Cuban Santería And The Politics Of Identity / Elena Zapponi -- A Secular Cancellation Of The Secularist Truce: Religion And Political Legitimation In Australia / Marion Maddox -- The Concept Of Implicit Religion: What, When, How, And Why? / Edward Bailey -- List Of Contributors / P. Michel and E. Pace -- Index / P. Michel and E. Pace.

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Over the past thirty years, religion has increasingly played a relevant role, both on a national level and in international affairs. The attempt made by politicians to reframe the policy of social cohesion in a neo-nationalist light (one land, one language, one religion = one political community), demising any kind of multiculturalism, facilitating instead a return to assimilation shaped by fear of the other (culture, religion, language, and so on), is very often associated with a restoration of the primacy of religious discourse in the public sphere. It is not just a return of religion in the public sphere, but the exploitation of religion by politics to reconstruct a social cohesion in the absence of ideological resources.