Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : state, law, and religious diversity / Joseph Marko, Maximilian Lakitsch, Wolfgang Weirer, Franz Winter and Kerstin Wonisch -- Human rights and the osmosis between secular and religious legal systems / Alessandro Ferrari -- Protection or persecution? The state, the law, and minority religion / Eileen Barker -- Historicizing the secularization debate / Dino Abazović -- Russian conservatism and human rights in Europe / Mikhail Antonov -- Multiculturalizing secularism / Tariq Modood -- Beyond the state law versus God's law dilemma : a genealogical approach to Islamic concepts of law, politics, and sovereignty / Jocelyne Cesari -- Religious diversity, secularisms, and ideologies comparing western and Muslim countries / Ahmet T. Kuru -- Is a comparative history of Western and Islamic political thought possible? / Joseph Marko -- Islamic fundamentalism : beyond Islamism, extremism, and political Islam / Rüdiger Lohlker -- Fundamentalisms old and new? Intra-religious developments and inter-denominational alliances in the new Christian right in Austria / Katharina Limacher -- The varieties of fundamentalism: a comparative approach to the use of a very popular term with a Buddhist side-step / Franz Winter -- Religion, gender, and law : a tense relationship / Kerstin Wonisch -- Critical reflections on the androcentrism of religious norms : the heteronomy of the female body / Dana El-Omari -- Canon and tradition in transition : the case of gender in Israel / Henriette Dahan Kalev -- Religion, human rights and education in pluralistic societies / Manfred L. Pirner -- The question of truth within the context of (religious) plurality / Andrea Lehner-Hartmann -- Pluralistic society as a challenge for Islamic education / Zerkirija Sejdini -- Religious education in a pluralistic society opportunities, challenges, and legal conclusions / Wolfgang Weirer -- Reconsidering the transnational dimension of religion and conflict / Maximilian Lakitsch -- Interreligious dialogue in a pandemic reality between priority and luxury / Mohammed Abu-Nimer -- Religious perspectives and their relevance for peace : a few concluding remarks on interreligious dialogue / Maximilian Lakitsch and Franz Winter.

"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"--