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Introduction (Ipgrave, Liljestrand, and Skeie) -- Part1: Interreligious Dialogue and Social Relations -- Chapter 1. Useful Trust: Interreligious Alliances for Alevi and Bahai communities in Hamburg (Haddad) -- Chapter 2. Maintaining and Transforming Bridging Capital in Interreligious Projects: A Case Study of a Swedish Youth Project (Liljestrand) -- Chapter 3. Six Women's Interreligious Dialogue Groups in London (Ipgrave) -- Chapter 4. Interreligious Dialogue Initiatives in a Local Borough of Oslo as Experienced by Local Youth and Dialogue Activists: Prospects for the Building of Social Capital, Trust and Social Cohesion? (Lund Johannessen and Husebø) -- Part 2: Interreligious activity and the spatial dimension -- Chapter 5. The transformation of a house of prayer in Hamburg: from church to mosque (Haddad) -- Chapter 6. An historic synagogue in London's East End: the impact of interreligious activity on a traditional place of worship (Ipgrave) -- Chapter 7. A peace and reconciliation centre in the City of London: a purpose-built venue for shared worship/reflection/dialogue (Ipgrave) -- Chapter 8. 'God's House', Fisksätra: planning a dual faith worship space in metropolitan Stockholm. (Liljestrand) -- Chapter 9. A Community Garden in Hackney: transformation of neighbourhood through interreligious activity (Ipgrave) -- Chapter 10. Fryshuset Social Centre: interreligious engagement in secular spaces (Liljestrand) -- Chapter 11. The Literature House, Oslo: public space for IR dialogue (Husebø and Lund Johannessen) -- Part3: Religious thinking and Interreligious Activity -- Chapter 12. Dialogue discussion groups (Liljestrand) -- Chapter 13. Community action projects (Ipgrave) -- Chapter 14. Interreligious initiatives in schools (Husebø and Lund Johannessen) -- Chapter 15. Public platform events (Ipgrave) -- Chapter 16. Community consultation groups (Liljestrand) -- Chapter 17. Interreligious rituals (Ipgrave)

Introduction: "first the original" -- Material, method and occasion -- Conversations about Adam -- Roger Williams and John Eliot's Indian writings and the story of Adam -- Gerrard Winstanley and Adam for millennium and commonwealth -- John Milton's Adam and the English nation -- John Locke, Adam and the original of power -- Eliot, Williams, Winstanley, Milton and Locke: man's state and ongoing story

Urban spaces throughout Europe are increasingly characterised by a mixture of different religions and worldviews. Being home to a wide range of religious and non-religious groups and individuals does not mean that cities are automatically also spaces of interreligious and interfaith encounters. Whether a city is a venue for interreligious encounter and dialogue, or merely a place where various religions and worldviews exist side by side, is a central question for the continuing social cohesion of modern societies. This volume presents selected findings of the international research project 'Religion and Dialogue in Modern Societies' (ReDi) which investigated dialogical practice in the five metropolitan cities Oslo, Stockholm, London, Hamburg and Duisburg. It offers a range of case studies addressing two fields of activity: dialogue and interreligious encounters in the urban space and dialogue in education.