Notes on Contributors1 Introduction: State, Law, and Religious DiversityJoseph MarkoMaximilian LakitschWolfgang WeirerFranz WinterKerstin WonischPART 1 Religion, State, Law, and Secularism2 Human Rights and the Osmosis between Secular and Religious Legal SystemsThe Post-modern European Right to Freedom of Religion through the Prism of the Islamic VeilAlessandro Ferrari3 Protection or Persecution? The State, the Law, and Minority ReligionEileen Barker4 Historicizing the Secularization Debate: A Helpful Illustration from Bosnia and HerzegovinaDino Abazovic5 Russia's Conservative Challenge to Human Rights in EuropeMikhail Antonov6 Multiculturalizing SecularismTariq ModoodPART 2 Islamic Concepts of Law and Politics7 Beyond the State Law versus God's Law Dilemma: A Genealogical Approach to Islamic Concepts of Law, Politics, and SovereigntyJocelyne Cesari8 Religious Diversity, Secularisms, and Ideologies: Comparing Western and Muslim CountriesAhmet T. Kuru9 Is a Comparative History of Western and Islamic Political Thought Possible?Joseph MarkoPART 3 Gender and Religion10 Religion, Gender, and Law: A Tense RelationshipKerstin Wonisch11 Critical Reflections on the Androcentrism of Religious Norms: The Heteronomy of the Female BodyDina El Omari12 Canon and Tradition in Transition: The Case of Gender in IsraelHenriette Dahan KalevPART 4 Religion and Education13 Religion, Human Rights and Education in Pluralistic Societies: Re-visiting John Rawls and Jurgen HabermasManfred L. Pirner14 The Question of Truth within the Context of (Religious) Plurality: A Challenge for Religious EducationAndrea Lehner-Hartmann15 Pluralistic Society as a Challenge for Islamic Education: An Example from AustriaZekirija Sejdini16 Religious Education in a Pluralistic Society: Opportunities, Challenges, and Legal ConclusionsWolfgang WeirerPART 5 The Varieties of Religious Fundamentalisms17 Islamic Fundamentalism: Beyond Islamism, Extremism, and Political IslamRudiger Lohlker18 Fundamentalisms Old and New? Intra-religious Developments and Inter-denominational Alliances in the New Christian Right in AustriaKatharina Limacher19 The Varieties of Fundamentalism: A Comparative Approach to the Use of a Very Popular Term with a Buddhist Side-StepFranz WinterPART 6 Interreligious Dialogue and Peacebuilding20 Reconsidering the Transnational Dimension of Religion and ConflictMaximilian Lakitsch21 Interreligious Dialogue in a Pandemic Reality: Between Priority and LuxuryMohammed Abu-Nimer22 Religious Perspectives and Their Relevance for Peace: A Few Concluding Remarks on Interreligious DialogueMaximilian LakitschFranz WinterIndex