Table of Contents:
  • Table of contents; biographical notes of authors; acknowledgements; list of abbreviations; religion and politics; politics and religion in the age of global dialogue; religion in 21st century europe; "accommodating" religious rights in the uk; the politicization of islam in the context of global religious fundamentalism; what went right?; democracy and human rights in the judeo-christian perspective; the biblical milieu and the shaping of the democratic consciousness of western culture; christ and caesar; "thy kingdom come!"
  • The relation between the romanian state and the church under pressurethe political and ideological repositioning of the romanian orthodox church in post-communism; the "social partnership" between the church and state as a field of negotiation for the public status of religion in post-communist romania.