CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Philosophical Refl ections on Religion, Politics and Law: An Introduction --- Bart C. Labuschagne and Reinhard W. Sonnenschmidt -- PART A PHILOSOPHICAL-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES: WITH VOEGELIN BACK TO PLATO, ARISTOTLE, AUGUSTINE AND HEGEL -- I. Eric Voegelin's Philosophy of Law and Ethics: A Cr itique --- Andreas A.M. Kinneging -- II. Plato's Political Ontology: On the Nature of Man and Regime --- Benjamin Bilski -- III. Religion and Order: Philosophical Refl ections from Augustine to Hegel on the Spiritual Sources of Law and Politics --- Bart C. Labuschagne -- PART B POLITICO-RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES: A CRITICAL REAPPRAISAL OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT, AND THE NEW APPROACH OF THE 'POLITICAL SCIENCE OF RELIGION' -- IV. Politics and Religion in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment I: Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke and Rousseau --- Claus-E. Bärsch -- V. Politics and Religion in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment II: Kant --- Claus-E. Bärsch -- VI. Basic Outlines of the 'Political Science of Religion' --- Claus-E. Bärsch -- PART C SYSTEMATICAL-PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES: ON EVIL, LOVE AND VIOLENCE, TOTALITARIANISM AND THE CURRENT MEANING OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT -- VII. The Diabolical Dimensions in the Shapes of Political Reality --- Peter Berghoff -- VIII. Love and Violence: Dialectical Refl ections on the Phenomenology of the Crusade --- Timo J.M. Slootweg -- IX. Totalitarianism and Radical Islamic Ideologies --- David A.J. Suurland -- X. The Enlightenment in Contemporary Cultural Debate --- Paul Cliteur and Geoff Gordon -- PART D PRACTICAL-PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES: DEALING WITH RELIGIOUS PLURALISM UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OR: THE CHALLENGING VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE IN MODERN DEMOCRACIES.

XI. The Religious Aspects of the Founding of the American Republic: A Design of Religion and Reason --- Detlef David Bauszus -- XII. Taking Pluralism Seriously: The US and the EU as Multicultural Democracies? --- Hans-Martien Th.D. ten Napel and Florian H. Karim Theissen -- XIII. Law, Politics and Religion: In Search of Criteria for Understanding Modernity --- Reinhard W. Sonnenschmidt -- XIV. From Transcendence to Introcendence: The Consciousness of Political Reality and Psycho-Esoteric Constructions of Salvation --- Andreas Dordel and Andrea Ullrich -- Name Index -- Subject Index.