Simone Raudino is Visiting Professor at the Kyiv School of Economics.Patricia Sohn is Associate Professor of Political Science and Jewish Studies at the University of Florida.

• Section 1: INTRODUCTION/COMPARATIVE THEMES1. Patricia Sohn, University of Florida—GainesvilleSimone Raudino, Kyiv School of Economics—Kyiv, Bridging Gaps—Hong Kong Editors' Introduction: Religion and Politics 2. Mark Tessler, University of Michigan—Ann Arbor Commentary: Modernization, Comparison, and Religion 3. Simone Raudino, Kyiv School of Economics—Kyiv, Bridging Gaps—Hong Kong Religion and Conflict: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Evidence Section 2: THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL CASES ACROSS REGIONS4. CHRISTIANITY/EUROPE – Introductions5. Marco Ferraro – Kyiv and Ankara The Genealogy of Morals in European Populist Movements 6. Antoine Arjakovsky, Collège des Bernardins—Paris Belief in Politics and Politics of Religion: The Case of Ukraine 7. Martin Chung, Hong Kong Baptist University—Hong Kong Secularism and Sectarianism in Christianity: The Case of Northern Ireland during the Troubles 8. ISLAM/AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST – Introductions9. Abdourahmane (Rahmane) Idrissa, Leiden University – Leiden The Politics of Islam in the Sahel: Between Quiescence and Violence 10. Mutaz Al-Khatib, Hamid bin Khalifa University—Doha Religious versus Civilian Freedoms: The Case of Apostasy in Islam 11. Ibrahim Yahaya Ibrahim, Crisis Group – Dakar The Politicization of Religious Activism: The Case of Islamic Humanitarian Organizations 12. JUDAISM/MIDDLE EAST – Introductions13. Patricia Sohn, University of Florida—Gainesville Global Trends in Religion and State: Secular Law and Freedom of Religion in Israel 14. Eti Peretz and Jonathan Fox, Bar Ilan University—Ramat Gan The Balancing of Religious and Democratic Values in the Israeli Judiciary: 1983 – 2006 15. Mordechai (Motti) Inbari, University of North Carolina—Pembroke Psychology in Religion: The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in Religious Readings of the Israeli Disengagement Plan 16. BUDDHISM, HINDUISM, AND SYNCRETIC RELIGIONS/ASIA – Introductions17. Pratick Mallick, Acharya Prafulla Chandra College—New Barrackpur Hinduism and Hindutva: A Historiography of Modern Indian Politics 18. Wasana Wongsurawat, Chulalongkorn University—Bangkok Multiculturalism and Revolution: An Analytic History of the Chinese Communist Party’s Relationship with Syncretic Religious Movements 19. Jue Liang, ASIANetwork/Luce Foundation, Denison University—Granville Trading Western Suits for Maroon Robes: Tibetan Buddhist Cosmopolitanism at Larung Gar 20. Manus Midlarsky, Rutgers University – New BrunswickSumin Lee, Rutgers University – New Brunswick Distancing the Other: Religious Violence and Its Absence in South Korea CONTRIBUTORSREFERENCES

“Beyond the Death of God helps us understand a truth that the secularization thesis has long masked: across the world, consciously or unconsciously, we still continue being living symbols of deep religious choices”—Husain Haqqani, author and former Pakistan Ambassador to the United States