To talk about religion is to talk about politics, identity, terrorism, migration, gender, and a host of other aspects of society. This volume examines and engag

This volume focuses on issues that have only recently come to the forefront of the discipline such as freedom from religion, ordination of homosexuals, apostasy

Olivier Roy, world-renowned authority on Islam and politics, finds in the modern disconnection between faith communities and socio-cultural identities a fertile

The authors presented in this volume deal with important cases of Protestantization of religion or of debates on religion. One chapter deals with Protestant for

What has been the role and understanding of religion in the last hundred years, and what can be the meaning of religion today? There is a well-known ongoing pro