Summary contents -- Detailed contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Modern states and religious, sociological and historical considerations: setting the stage -- 1: Secularisation and seperation? Institutional diversity of religious governace -- Part 2: Reconceptualising principles and making political philosophy fit for the task of accommodating religious diversity -- 2: Contextualising morality: moral minimalism, relational neutrality, and fairnee as even-handedness -- 3: Priority for liberal democracy or secularism?: Why I am not a secularist -- Part 3 -- 4: Religious freedoms and other human rights, moral conundrums and hard cases -- 5: Relational neutrality and even-handedness toward religions: softer cases and symbolic isseus -- Part 4: Institutional models of democracy and religious governance: associative democracy -- 6: Moderately agonistic democracy, democratic institutional pluralism, associative democracy and the incorporation of minorities -- 7: Normative models of religious governance: associative democracy, a moral defence -- 8: Dilemmas of institutionalisation: associative democracy, church atonomy and equal treatment of religious -- 9: A realistic defence of associative democracy -- 10: Associative democracy and education -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of subjects.