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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- The Authors -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- General Introduction -- 1. AN OUTLINE OF FRENCH CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY -- I. From Constitutional Revolutions to the Emergence of the Parliamentary Regime (1789-1875) -- II. The Third Republic (1875-1940) -- A. The Institutions of the Third Republic -- B. The Practice of the Regime -- III. The Fourth Republic (1946-1958) -- A. The Institutions of the Fourth Republic -- B. The Practice of the Regime -- IV. The Fifth Republic (1958 to Present) -- A. Adoption of the Constitution -- B. Evolution of the Constitution -- 2. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FRENCH STATE -- I. The Indivisibility of the Republic -- A. A Unitary State -- B. A Decentralized Organization -- II. Secularism -- III. A Democratic and Social Republic -- A. Democracy and the Rule of Law -- B. A Social Republic -- IV. The Political Regime -- A. A Parliamentary Republic -- B. A Semi-Presidential Regime -- 1. The Pre-eminence of the President of the Republic -- 2. The Periods of Cohabitation -- 3. STATE TERRITORY -- I. A Complex Territorial Organization -- II. Powers of Local Authorities -- 4. POPULATION AND DEMOGRAPHICS -- Selected Further Reading -- Part I. Sources of Constitutional Law -- Chapter 1. Treaties -- 1. THE TREATY-MAKING POWER -- 2. THE POSITION OF INTERNATIONAL TREATIES IN THE DOMESTIC NORMATIVE HIERARCHY -- I. The Supra-Legislative and Infra-Constitutional Position of International Treaties -- II. The Subordination of International Treaties to the Constitution -- A. The General Subordination of International Treaties to the Constitution -- B. The Special Constitutional Position of EU Law -- Chapter 2. The Constitution -- 1. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF CONSTITUTIONAL NORMS -- I. The Supremacy of the Constitution.

Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Note on Transliteration and Other Conventions -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Abstract -- 1.1 Objectives of the Book -- 1.2 Muslim Modernism and Muslim Modernists -- 1.3 Structure of the Thesis -- 1.4 Brief Literature Survey and Significance of the Book -- Chapter 2 Life and Character: From Birth to the Formation of a Social Reformer -- Abstract -- 2.1 Early Life-The Formative Period -- 2.2 Academic Endeavour -- 2.3 Making and Unmaking of Nassirism -- 2.4 Islamic Activist in the Making -- 2.5 Next Destination-France/Life in France -- 2.6 Back Home (Tunisia) and Social Reformer in the Making -- Chapter 3 Sociopolitical Activities -- Abstract -- 3.1 Post-independent Tunisian Atmosphere and the Emergence of a Social Reformer -- 3.2 Transformation: Social Activism to Political Activism -- 3.3 Formation of Ḥarkah al-Ittijah al-Islāmı and the Period Onward -- Chapter 4 Works of Rāshid al-Ghannūshiˉ: An Exploration -- Abstract -- 4.1 Al-HurrIˉyyāt al-'Āmah fIˉ al-Dawlah al-Islāmiyyah (Civil Liberties in the Islamic State) -- 4.2 Al-Mar'ah Bayn al-Qur'ān wa Wāqi' al-MuslimIˉn (The Woman Between the Qur'ān and the Muslim Reality) -- 4.3 Ḥuqūq al-Muwāṭanah: Ḥuqūq ghayr al-Muslim fIˉ al-Mujtama' al-IslāmIˉ (The Right to Nationality Status of Non-Muslim Citizens in a Muslim Nation) -- 4.4 Muqāribāt fIˉ al-'Ilmāniyyah wa al-Mujtama' al-MadanIˉ (Approaches to Secularism and Civil Society) -- 4.5 Min al-Fikr al-IslāmIˉ fIˉ Tūnis (From the Islamic Thought in Tunisia) -- 4.6 Al-Qadar 'Inda Ibn Taymiyyah (Predestination: Ibn Taymiiyyah's Perspective) -- Chapter 5 Rāshid al-Ghannūshiˉ on Islam-West Relationship and Human Rights -- Abstract -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Islam-West Relationship -- 5.3 Human Rights -- 5.3.1 Concept of Freedom.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1 Colonialism and Postcolonial Legacies -- 1 Anthropologists Versus Missionaries: The Influence of Presuppositions, Claude E. Stipe -- 2 From Tupa to the Land Without Evil: The Christianization of Tupi -Guarani Cosmology, -- 3 Shamanism and Christianity: Modern-Day Tlingit Elders Look at the Past, Sergei Kan -- 4 Reflections on Christianity in China, Morton H. Fried -- Part 2 Gender and Sexuality -- 5 Menstruation and Reproduction: An Oglala Case, -- 6 The Domestication of Religion: The Spiritual Guardianship of Elderly Jewish Women, Susan Sered -- 7 Becoming a Mujercita: Rituals, Fiestas, and Religious Discourses, Valentina Napolitano -- 8 Erotic Anthropology: "Ritualized Homosexuality" in Melanesia and Beyond, Deborah A. Elliston -- Part 3 The Healing Touch and Altered States -- 9 Exorcists, Psychiatrists, and the Problems of Possession in Northwest Madagascar, Lesley A. Sharp -- 10 The Woman Who Wanted To Be Her Father: A Case Analysis of Dybbuk Possession in a Hasidic Community, Yoram Bilu -- 11 Hypnosis and Trance Induction in the Surgeries of Brazilian Spiritist Healer-Mediums, Sidney M. Greenfield -- 12 Zar as Modernization in Contemporary Sudan, Susan M. Kenyon -- Part 4 Religion and the State -- 13 Pockets Full of Mistakes: The Personal Consequences of Religious Change in a Toraja Village, Douglas Hollan -- 14 Bandits, Beggars, and Ghosts: The Failure of State Control over Religious Interpretation in Taiwan, Robert P. Weller -- 15 Muslim Identity and Secularism in Contemporary Turkey: "The Headscarf Dispute -- " Emelie A. Olson -- 16 The Interpretation of Politics: A Hopi Conundrum, Peter M. Whiteley -- Part 5 Changes and Continuities -- 17 Cargoism in Irian Jaya Today, Benny Giay and fan A. Godschalk

"Education and Extremisms addresses one of the most pressing questions facing societies today: how is education to respond to the challenge of extremism? It argues that the implementation of new teaching techniques, curricular reforms or top-down changes to education policy alone cannot solve the problem of extremism in educational establishments across the world. Instead, the authors of this thought-provoking volume argue that there is a need for those concerned with radicalisation to reconsider the relationship between instrumentalist ideologies shaping education and the multiple forms of extremisms that exist.Beginning with a detailed discussion of the complicated and contested nature of different forms of extremism, including extremism of both a religious and secular nature, the authors show that common assumptions in contemporary discourses on education and extremism are problematic. Chapters in the book provide a careful selection of pertinent and topical case studies, policy analysis and insightful critique of extremist discourses. Taken together, the chapters in the book make a powerful case for re-engaging with liberal education in order to foster values of individual and social enrichment, intellectual freedom, criticality, open-mindedness, flexibility and reflection as antidotes to extremist ideologies. Recognising recent criticisms of liberalism and liberal education, the authors argue for a new understanding of liberal education that is suitable for multicultural societies in a rapidly globalising world. This book is essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students with an interest in religion, citizenship education, liberalism, secularism, counter-terrorism, social policy, Muslim education, youth studies and extremism. It is also relevant to teacher educators, teachers and policymakers."--Provided by publisher

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- System of Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1 The Emergence of the Tunisian Islamic Movement -- Economic and Political Factors -- Religious and Cultural Factors -- The Movement's First Founders -- Embarking on a Mission -- 2 The Politicisation Process -- Conflict on Campus -- The Government's Role in the Emergence of the Movement -- The Impact of the Liberal Experiment -- The Iranian Factor -- Secrecy: The Benefits and Costs -- The Discovery of the Secret Organisation -- The Creation of the Political Party -- 3 Islamists v. Bourguiba 1981-1987 -- The First Confrontation, 1981-1984 -- The Truce of 1984-1986 -- The End of Bourguiba's Era -- 4 Islamists v. Ben Ali 1987-1993 -- The Strategy of the New President -- Ben Ali Against the Islamists -- The Panic of the Islamists -- 5 The Basis for a "Political" Islam -- The Party of Islam -- The Meaning and Implications of Jāhiliyya -- The "Muslim" and the "Islamist -- Islamism or Fundamentalism? -- The Principle of Comprehensiveness -- Islam and Secularism -- 6 The Islamists' Islamic State -- The Evolution of Ghannouchi's Political Thought -- Islamic Democracy -- The Implications of Trusteeship -- Basic Human Rights in Islam -- The People's Authority -- The Status of Non-Muslims -- A Note on Tunisian Modernism -- The Response of Tunisian Élites -- The Implications of the Islamists' Programme -- The Question of Originality -- 7 Issues of Identity and Westernisation -- Islam, Arabism, and Tunisian Identity -- The Role of Mzali -- The Fight Against Westernisation -- Signing the National Pact -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Appendix 1 The Founding Manifesto of Ḥarakat al-Ittijāh al-Islāmī (1981) -- Appendix 2 The Manifesto of Al-Nahḍa Movement of Tunisia (1988)

Cover -- GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Basic Concepts and Ideas -- 2.1. Islamism -- 2.2. Internal Secularization and Internal Liberalization -- 3. Summary of the Essays -- 4. Historical Outline -- 4.1. The Ottoman Legacy -- 4.2. Modernization, Westernization, and Secularization -- 4.3. The Military Coup of 1980 and Onwards -- 4.4. The 1990s and the 28 February Process -- Bibliography -- ESSAY 1: THE 'LIBERAL-CONSERVATIVE' RAPPROCHEMENT IN TURKEY: THE CASE OF THE LIBERAL THOUGHT SOCIETY -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The LDT in the Turkish Academia -- 2. Liberalism in the Ottoman-Turkish Political Tradition: A Pre-History -- 3. Mardin's "Center-Periphery" Model: A Key to the LDT's Understanding of Turkish Politics -- 4. The Liberal Thought Society: A General Outlook -- 5. On Politics and Democracy: Basic Parameters for Limiting Political Power -- 5 .1. Private Property and Free Markets -- 5.2 . Individual Liberty -- 5.3. Culture, Tradition, and Religion -- 6. Kemalist Moder nization: Continuity and Rupture -- 6.1. K emalism and "Bureaucratic Dominance" -- 6.2. The Single-Party Re gime: Total "Bureaucratic Dominance" of Politics -- 6.3. The Pendulum Swing of Democracy in Turkey: "Bureaucratic Tutelage" -- 7. Search for a Political Subject: The LDT's Vision of a "Liberal-Conservative" Rapprochement -- 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- ESSAY 2: A LIBERAL PERSPECTIVE ON ISLAM AND SECULARISM IN TURKEY: REFLECTIONS ON THE LIBERAL THOUGHT SOCIETY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. "Laicist State versus Islamic Society": the Thesis of Exclusion -- 3. "Republican Failure" and the "Return of the Repressed" -- 4. The Sphere of Civil Society: The Case of the Tarikat -- 5. The Sphere of Politics: the Refah Partisi Dissolution Case -- 5.1 The Refah Partisi and the Takiyyah Debate

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: Toward a New Enlightenment -- Part One: Ethics and the Planetary Society -- Introduction to Part One -- 1. Humanist Ethics: Eating the Forbidden Fruit -- 2. The Relevance of Science to Ethics -- 3. The Twenty-First Century and Beyond: The Need for a New Global Ethic and a Declaration of Interdependence -- Part Two: Democratic Ideas, Pluralism -- Introduction to Part Two -- 4. Humanism and the Freedom of the Individual -- 5. Democracy without Theology: Dialogue with Evangelists -- 6. Excellence and Irrelevance: Democracy and the Higher Learning -- 7. Misuses of Civil Disobedience -- 8. The Limits of Tolerance -- 9. Beyond Multiculturalism: Toward a Humanist Universalism -- 10. Will Secularism Survive? -- Part Three: Skepticism: Science and Antiscience -- Introduction to Part Three -- 11. The Scientific Attitude vs. Antiscience and Pseudoscience -- 12. Antireason -- 13. Science and the Paranormal: An Overview -- 14. Skepticism about the Paranormal: Legitimate and Illegitimate -- Part Four: Atheism, Humanism, and Religion -- Introduction to Part Four -- 15. Humanism and the Open Society: Dialogues with Marxists and Roman Catholics -- 16. Militant Atheism vs. Freedom of Conscience: Reflections on the Moscow Atheist/Humanist Dialogue -- 17. Humanism and Atheism: Exploring Similarities and Differences -- 18. The Church under Siege: Reflections on the Vatican/Humanist Dialogue -- 19. The Argument from Revelation Reexamined -- 20. Is Life Meaningful in a Universe without God? -- 21. Finding a Common Ground between Believers and Unbelievers -- 22. The Growth of Fundamentalism Worldwide: A Humanist Response -- Part Five: Paul Kurtz in Person and in Action -- Introduction to Part Five -- 23. In Defense of Eupraxophy -- 24. Promethean Love: Unbound

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- PART I RELIGION AND REGIME -- 1 Religion and Politics in Comparative and Historical Perspective -- 2 The Iranian Revolution in Comparative Perspective -- 3 Rendering unto Caesar? Religious Competition and Catholic Political Strategy in Latin America, 1962-79 -- 4 Warring Gods? Theological Tales -- 5 Buddhaputra and Bhumiputra? Dilemmas of Modern Sinhala Buddhist Monks in Relation to Ethnic and Political Conflict -- 6 The War in Former Yugoslavia and Religion -- 7 Democracy and Religious Politics: Evidence from Belgium -- PART II THE POLITICS OF CHURCH-STATE RELATIONS -- 8 Religious Capital and Capital Religions: Cross-Cultural and Non-Legal Factors in the Separation of Church and State -- 9 Secularism and the State: Towards Clarity and Global Comparison -- 10 The New Religious State -- 11 The Politics of Ideology: The Papal Struggle with Liberalism -- 12 Jewish Messianism, Religious Zionism and Israeli Politics: The Impact and Origins of Gush Emunim -- 13 The Evolving Regulatory Structure of European Church-State Relationships -- 14 Church and State in Spain from the Civil War to the Return of Democracy -- PART III RELIGION AND ELECTORAL POLITICS -- 15 Regional and Religious Support of Political Parties and Effects on their Issue Positions -- 16 Religious vs. Linguistic vs. Class Voting: The "Crucial Experiment" of Comparing Belgium, Canada, South Africa, and Switzerland -- 17 Politics and the Pulpit: The Case of Protestant Europe -- 18 In From the Cold? Christian Parties in Scandinavia -- 19 Modernity and Fundamentalism: The New Christian Right in America -- 20 Cultural Conflict in American Politics: Religious Traditionalism, Postmaterialism, and U.S. Political Behavior -- 21 Religion and Politics in Postcommunist Russia.

The modernist-apologetic approach to the relation between revelation and science and politics has been a central part of Arab discourses on the future of Muslim societies for over a century. This approach introduced historical and theological narratives and interpretative mechanisms that contextualize reason and freedom in Islamic terms to argue that, unlike with Christianity, it is possible for Muslim societies to be technologically and politically advanced without forfeiting revelation as an all-encompassing, legally-binding guide. 'Scientific and Political Freedom in Islam' critically examines the coherence and consistency of modernist-apologetic scholars. This is done through a discussion of their general theorizing on reason and freedom, which is then followed by discussions of their commentaries on specific scientific and political issues in light of their general theorizing. Regarding the former, the focus is Darwin's theory of evolution, while the universality of the "Biblical flood," the heliocentric model, the Big Bang model and Freudianism are also discussed. Regarding the latter, the focus is Islam's desired structure of government and concept of participatory politics, while individual freedoms are also discussed. The book argues that the modernist-apologetic approach has great potential to be a force for liberalization, but also possesses inherent limitations that render its theory on the relation between revelation and freedom self-contradictory. Introducing a significant body of new information on the reasons for the failure of secularism and democracy and the attitudes towards Darwinism in the Arab world, this book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Islamic Studies, comparative religion, democracy studies and evolution studies

This book is to understand the European political debate about contentious issues framed in terms of religious values by religious and/or secular actors in 21st century, focusing specifically on the Italian case, which, due to its peculiar history and contemporary political landscape, is a paradigmatic case for the study of the relationships between religion and politics. In recent years, a number of controversies related to religious issues have characterised the European public debate at both the EU and the national level. The 'affaire du foulard' in France (2004-2011), the referendum on abortion in Portugal (2007), the recognition of same-sex marriages in many Western European States - from Belgium (2003), to Spain (2005), to France (2013) -, the debate over bioethics and the regulation of euthanasia (legalized in Belgium and the Netherlands - 2002), as well as the discussion on religious pluralism and the religious roots of Europe in the EU Constitution, are only a few examples of contentious issues involving religion. All these debates have been at the centre of the political and public spheres across Europe, contributing to revive the attention towards the role of religion in contemporary societies, and highlighting the diverse forms of political secularism in Europe. The book aims at shedding light on the interrelation between the different debates, as well as their broader meaning, through the analysis of a paradigmatic case: Italy. The country summarizes and sometimes exasperates wider European trends, both because of the peculiar role traditionally played by the Vatican in Italian politics and for the rise, since the 1990s, of new political entrepreneurs eager to exploit ethical and civilizational issues.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of plates -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART ONE: NOBLE CONDUCT -- 1 Reconstructing Chivalry -- Preaching Chivalry -- Chivalry in Retreat, 1884-1984 -- Towards Secularism: The Kingdom of Courtliness -- 2 From Preudommie to Chevalerie -- Noble Conduct before Chivalry: The Preudomme -- Courtliness and the Court before 1170 -- Creating Chivalry: the Noble Habitus -- The Appearance of the Code of Chivalry, 1170-1220 -- 3 Out of the Iron Age -- PART TWO: NOBLE DESCENT -- 4 Constructing Families -- The Age of Durkheim: The 'Law' of Family Contraction -- The Age of Lévi-Strauss: Unstructuring Families -- Noble Primogeniture and Lineage in England -- New Models of Noble Lineage -- 5 The Power of Lineage -- Lineage and the Search for Distinction -- Parage and the Search for Security -- Defending Lineage and Parage -- 6 Inventing Snobbery -- The Evidence of Heraldry -- The Evidence of Death -- The Evidence of Literature -- PART THREE: NOBLE CLASS -- 7 Historians and Noble Class -- The British and Class -- Explaining Class Formation -- Transforming Society -- A New Theory of Class Formation: 'Cultural Diffusion' -- Class Mobility -- 8 Medieval People and Social Division -- Religious Models of Society -- Materialistic Divisions -- Early Social Categories -- Inventing Social Boundaries -- 9 The Precocity of England -- PART FOUR: NOBLE LORDSHIP -- 10 The Feudal Debate -- Enlightenment and Romantic Feudalisms -- Britain and the Feudal System after 1900 -- French Feudalism -- 11 Power and Structures -- The Honor -- Locality: Community and Affinity -- Comparing France and England -- 12 Noble Women: The View from the Stands -- Women in Historiography -- The Minimalist View -- Maximising the View -- Women at Large -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

"The subject of this book is a new "Islam." This Islam began to take shape in 1988 around the Rushdie affair, the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the first Gulf War of 1991. It was consolidated in the period following September 11, 2001. It is a name, a discursive site, a signifier at once flexible and constrained--indeed, it is a geopolitical agon, in and around which some of the most pressing aporias of modernity, enlightenment, liberalism, and reformation are worked out. At this discursive site are many metonyms for Islam: the veiled or "pious" Muslim woman, the militant, the minority Muslim injured by Western free speech. Each of these figures functions as a cipher enabling repeated encounters with the question "How do we free ourselves from freedom?" Again and again, freedom is imagined as Western, modern, imperial--a dark imposition of Enlightenment. The pious and injured Muslim who desires his or her own enslavement is imagined as freedom's other. At Freedom's Limit is an intervention into current debates regarding religion, secularism, and Islam and provides a deep critique of the anthropology and sociology of Islam that have consolidated this formation. It shows that, even as this Islam gains increasing traction in cultural production from television shows to movies to novels, the most intricate contestations of Islam so construed are to be found in the work of Muslim writers and painters. This book includes extended readings of jihadist proclamations; postcolonial law; responses to law from minorities in Muslim-majority societies; Islamophobic films; the novels of Leila Aboulela, Mohammed Hanif, and Nadeem Aslam; and the paintings of Komail Aijazuddin"--

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One: Variety in Understanding Feminist Concepts and Discourse -- 1. What Do Women Want? A Critical Mapping of Future Directions for Arab Feminisms -- 2. Gender Studies in the Arab World: Reflections and Questions on the Challenges of Discourses, Locations and History -- 3. Recognition of Difference: Towards a More Effective Feminism -- 4. Research Methods and Probing Feminist Thought -- 5. From Women's Rights to Feminism: The Urgent Need for an Arab Feminist Renaissance -- 6. Feminist Discourse in the Arab Theatre -- 7. Huqouq almarʾa: Feminist Thought and the Language of the Arab Women's Movement -- 8. Femininity and Feminist Studies: Research, the Researcher and Cultural Constrictions in Lebanon -- 9. The Creative Arab Woman: Opposing the Stereotypical Image and Dismantling the Prevalent Discourse -- 10. Does Saudi Feminism Exist? -- 11. Arab Feminism - Obstacles and Possibilities: An Analytical Study of the Women's Movement in the Arab World -- 12. The Intellectual Frameworks and Theoretical Limits of Arab Feminist Thought -- 13. Feminism's Difference Problem -- 14. Feminism as Critique -- Part Two: The Crisis of Feminism in the Context of War, Civil Conflict and Military Intervention -- 15. Feminism Between Secularism and Islamism: The Case of Palestine (The West Bank and Gaza Strip) -- 16. Palestinian Feminist Organizations in the Post-Oslo Era: The Binary Nature of Feminist Discourse -- 17. Liberation Struggles: Reflections on the Palestinian Women's Movement -- 18. Indigenizing Feminist Knowledge: Palestinian Feminist Thought Between the Physics of International Power and the Theology of Racist 'Security' -- 19. The Developing Role of Colonial Feminists in Iraq -- 20. Afghan Women's Resistance and Struggle in Afghanistan and Diasporic Communities.

Many Christians feel that they are being opposed at every turn by what seems to be a well-orchestrated political and cultural campaign to de-Christianize every aspect of Western culture. They are right, and it goes even further back than the Obama Administration. In Worshipping the State: How Government is Replacing Religion, Benjamin Wiker argues that it is liberals who seek to establish an official state religion: one of unbelief. Wiker reveals that it was never the intention of the Founders to drive religion out of the public square with the First Amendment, but centuries of secularists and liberals have deliberately misinterpreted the establishment clause to serve their own ends: the de-Christianization of Western civilization. The result, they hope, is government as the new oracle. Personal faith in a deity is replaced with collective dependence on government, and the diversity of religious practices and dogmas is reduced to a uniform ideological agenda. The strategy is two-pronged: drive religion out of the public square through law and by encouraging popular derision of the faithful; then, in religion's place, erect the Church of the State to fill the human need for a higher power to look up to. But what was done can be undone. Outlining a simple, step-by-step strategy for disestablishing the state church of secularism, Worshiping the State shows the full historical sweep of the war to those on the Christian side of the cultural battle--and as a consequence of this far more complete vantage, how to win it.

Foreword / Pieter Omtzigt -- Introduction / William Dalrymple -- Part 1: The Syriacs. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the 'Seyfo' against the Syrians / Martin Tamcke -- The Lausanne Treaty : high aspirations, highly neglected / Alan Hurst -- Who are the Syriacs? / Herman Teule -- The Syrian Orthodox Church / Jens Nieper -- Living between the fronts : the Turkish-Kurdish conflict and the Assyrians / Aryo Makko -- Turkey : secularism with an Islamic flavour and persisting obstacles to religious freedom / Dennis Pastoor -- Minority rights in Turkey : quo vadis, Assyrians? / Soner Onder -- Almost a miracle - Syriacs are returning to their homelands / Horst Oberkampf -- Cadastral registration of lands and preservation orders in Turkey's south-east : subtle forms of discrimination? / Markus Tozman -- The role of religious freedom in the context of the accession negotiations between the European Union and Turkey - the example of the Arameans / Renate Sommer -- Persecution of Christians in Turkey / Ingrid Fischbach -- Part 2: The Mar Gabriel Monastery. The Monastery of Mor Gabriel : a historical overview and its wider significance today / Sebastian Brock -- Reconciled by Mor Gabriel / Baskin Oran -- The Saint Gabriel Monastery Trust / Yakup Bilge -- St. Gabriel and religious freedom in Turkey / Gus Bilirakis -- Mor Gabriel : a symbol of how the Turkish state deals with its religious minorities / Ute Granold -- United for the sake of the Mor Gabriel Monastery / Naures Atto -- Interview with Sébastien de Courtois / Pieter Omtzigt -- Appendix 1: Initiative policy document : The alarming situation of the Monastery of Mor Gabriel and the Aramaic-speaking Christians in Turkey - the Syriacs / Pieter Omtzigt -- Appendix 2: The disappeared documents from St. Gabriel Monastery's case file / Baskin Oran