Simeon Evstatiev is Professor of Near Eastern history and Islamic studies at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohdridski (Bulgaria). His books include Religion and Politics in the Arab World (2nd ed., 2012) and Salafism in the Middle East and the Boundaries of Faith (2018).Dale F. Eickelman is Research Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College (U.S.A.). His books include Russia’s Muslim Frontiers (edited, 1993), The Middle East and Central Asia (4th ed., 2002), and Muslim Politics (with James Piscatori, new edition, 2004).

• Note on TransliterationList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction On the Eastern Edge of Europe: Christianity, Islam, and the Bulgarian Political ImaginationDale F. Eickelman and Simeon Evstatievpart 1Secularism in Bulgaria and Its Region1 Byzantine and Ottoman Pasts, Modern Politics Religious Belongings and Balkan SecularitiesSimeon Evstatiev and Dale F. Eickelman2 Regulating Religious Freedoms in the 21st Century Nationality, Religion, and Symphonic SecularismKristen Ghodsee3 Salafism Is Coming “Balkan” versus “Arab” Islam in Bulgaria under Milletic SecularismSimeon Evstatievpart 2Christian and Muslim Men and Women under State Atheism and Postsocialist Secularism4 Symbols and Identity in Bulgaria Parallels between Communist Atheism and Western SecularismMomchil Metodiev5 Caesar and God in the Public Sphere Religious and Secular Discourse in Post-Atheist BulgariaDaniela Kalkandjieva6 The Hijab in Contemporary Bulgaria Muslim Views on VeilingGalina Evstatieva7 Fasting and Aging in a Bulgarian Muslim CommunityIlia Ilievpart 3Religion, Publicity, and Concealment in Orthodox-Majority Societies8 Parallel Paths Christian-Muslim Symbiosis and Religious Education in GreeceAngeliki Ziaka9 The Russian Orthodox Church Federal Visibility Versus Local-Level ConcealmentIvan Zabaev and Daria Oreshina10 Religion and the Challenges of Public Legitimization The Bulgarian Orthodox ChurchPlamen MakarievIndex