Acknowledgement -- Preface (MICHAEL R. OTT) -- Introduction: The Development of the Critical Theory of Religion in Dubrovnik from 1975 to 2007 (RUDOLF J. SIEBERT) -- Historical Foundations -- 1. Constantine: From Religious Pluralism to Christian Hegemony (A. JAMES REIMER) -- 2. Christianity and the Concept of National Guilt (DENIS R. JANZ) -- 3. Pious XII and the Third Reich (HANS K. WEITENSTEINER) -- 4. Tepeyac and Plymouth Rock: Pilgrimage and Nationalism in Mexico and the United States (BRIAN C. WILSON) -- 5. The Pains and Pleasures of Opium, Religion, and Modernity: A New View of Robert Owen (ANJA FINGER) -- Conceptions of the Future of Religion -- 6. Max Horkheimer's Negative Theology of the Totally Other (MICHAEL R. OTT) -- 7. The Functional View of Religion: Limits and Dangers (GOTTFRIED KÜENZLEN) -- 8. Religion within the Space of Reasons (HELMUT FRITZSCHE) -- 9. Spiritual Culture: Transcendence of the Fundamental Problems of Life (REIMON BACHIKA) -- 10. The Future of Christianity as a Question about the Future of Europe (GOTTFRIED KÜENZLEN) -- Conceptions of the Future of Society -- 11. Civil Society and the Globalization of Its "State of Emergency:" The Longing for the Totally Other as a Force of Social Change (MICHAEL R. OTT) -- 12. Social Philosophical Reflections on the Concepts of Culture and Multiculturalism in the Context of Globalization (KJARTAN SELNES) -- 13. Ethics and Religion: From Modern "Aufhebung" to Post-Modern Revival (MISLAV KUKOC) -- 14. The Ethics of Interpretation after Postmodernism (HANS-HERBERT KÖGLER) -- 15. Toward a Naturalistic Foundation of Community: How Science Can Solve the Spiritual Crisis? (WERNER KRIEGLSTEIN) -- 16. Socio-Economic Basis For Religious Socialization and Youth Issues in Croatia (DUNJA POTOCNIK).

17. The Serbian Orthodox Church and the Serbian National Identity: Some Relations and Controversies (ALEXANDRA BASA) -- 18. Education Toward Humanity (AURELIA MARGARETIC) -- 19. The Human Being Called "Homo Techno-Sapiens": A Note on a Post-Human Perspective (JAN FENNEMA) -- 20. Theology of Revolution versus Theology of Counter-Revolution (RUDOLF J. SIEBERT) -- About the Authors -- References -- Index.