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Today there is a substantial and rapidly growing Muslim population in Europe and North America. Here, as elsewhere, many of the Muslims are Sufis. This book focuses mainly on issues of inculturation or contextualisation of Sufism in the West.

Preliminary Material /Ingvar Svanberg and David Westerlund -- Introduction /Sebastian Cwiklinski -- Lithuania /Tamara Bairašauskaitė and Egdūnas Račius -- Poland /Agata S. Nalborczyk -- Saint Petersburg /Renat Bekkin and Sabira Ståhlberg -- Finland /Harry Halén and Tuomas Martikainen -- Estonia /Toomas Abiline and Ringo Ringvee -- Latvia /Valters Ščerbinskis -- Sweden /Sabira Ståhlberg and Ingvar Svanberg -- Germany /Sebastian Cwiklinski -- Index /Ingvar Svanberg and David Westerlund.

1. Religious diplomacy in international and inter-Orthodox relations / Greg Simons -- 2. Religious, cultural and political dimensions of winter-bathing in Russia / Per-Arne Bodin -- 3. 'Orthodoxy or death!' : political orthodoxy in Russia / Maria Engstrom -- 4. Shamanism, politics and ethnos-building in Russia / Olle Sundstrom -- 5. The approved and the disapproved Islam in Russia / Kaarina Aitamurto -- 6. Islamic opposition in Azerbaijan : discursive conflicts and beyond / Sofie Bedford -- 7. Religion and nation-building in Estonia : some perspectives on secular society / Ringo Ringvee -- 8. Church and state relations in Poland, with special focus on the Radio Station Mary / Konrad Pedziwiatr -- 9. Majority, minorities and religious pluralism in Romania / Catalin Ionete.

Descriptions and contributions of the religions important in early and present-day Idaho.