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Religious ideas, practices, discourses, institutions, and social expressions are in constant flux. This volume addresses the internal and external dynamics, interactions between individuals, religious communities, and local as well as global society. The contributions concentrate on four areas: 1. Contemporary religion in the public sphere: The Tactics of (In)visibility among Religious Communities in Europe; Religion Intersecting De-nationalization and Re-nationalization in Post-Apartheid South Africa;2. Religious transformations: Forms of Religious Communities in Global Society; Political Contributions of Ancestral Cosmologies and the Decolonization of Religious Beliefs; Esoteric Tradition as Poetic Invention; 3. Focus on the individual: Religion and Life Trajectories of Islamists; Angels, Animals and Religious Change in Antiquity and Today; Gaining Access to the Radically Unfamiliar in Today's Religion; Religion between Individuals and Collectives; 4. Narrating religion: Entangled Knowledge Cultures and the Creation of Religions in Mongolia and Europe; Global Intellectual History and the Dynamics of Religion; On Representing Judaism.

Conference address / Qodri A. Azizy -- Religious harmony in religious diversity: the case of Indonesia / Franz Magnis-Suseno -- Models of religious diversity: simplicities and complexities / Michael Pye -- An analytical perspective in the study of religious diversity: searching for a new model of the philosophy of the study of religions / M. Amin Abdullah -- The task and function of the academic study of religions in the face of religious diversity / Edith Franke -- Education and advancement of cultural Islam: rebuilding a "greater tradition" for Indonesian Islam / Fauzan Saleh -- Religious ecology and the study of religions / Alef Theria Wasim -- The six dimensions of Christian-Muslim relations / Hugh Goddard -- Ethics of socio-religious relations in heterogeneous society / Nurdien H. Kistanto -- Grassroots experience of religious diversity and cooperation / Elga Sarapung -- Asian models of religious diversity: the uniqueness of Indonesian religiosity / John A. Titaley -- Shared stories: Islamic teachings in Javanese literature / Ronit Ricci -- Women in Christianity: a complex case / Michel Despland -- Gender in contemporary Islamic studies in Indonesia / Siti Ruhaini Dzuhayatin -- Being Hindu in Malaysia: on a par with other religions or a cause of disharmony? / Manfred Hutter -- The discourse on wa or harmony in contemporary Japanese religions and society / Katja Triplett -- Impact of Islamic revivalism on religious minorities in Malaysia / Ahmad F. Yousif -- The Easter Pajatan celebration: identity differences and efforts to restore harmony / Nico L. Kana and Singgih Nugroho -- Violence in apocalypticism: a preliminary remark / Robert Setio -- The religion of the Pesantren / Abdurrahman Mas'ud -- Teaching religion in German schools / Peter Antes -- Islamic education: significance, problems and solutions / Affandi Mochtar -- Diversity in the classroom: women and religion / Morny Joy -- Religious education in a pluralistic society: experiences from Norway / Einar Thomassen -- European models of integrative religious education / Wanda Alberts -- Recent debates on the headscarf in Europe and their meaning for religious pluralism / Gritt Klinkhammer -- Choosing a religion as an aspect of religious identity formation in modern societies / Sebastian Murken and Sussan Namini -- Youth culture and the negotiation of religious identity / Ronald Lukens-Bull and Alethia Calbeck -- Peasantren education and religious harmony: background, visits, and impressions / Ronald Lukens-Bull.