Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface: Religion and Politics -- PART I: THE RECOMPOSITION OF THE RELATIONS BETWEEN RELIGION AND POLITICS, AND THE NEW FEATURES OF THE GLOBAL RELIGIOUS SYSTEM -- Religious Pluralization and Intimations of a Post-Westphalian Condition in a Global Society -- Resurgent Religion in Politics: The Martyr, the Convert and the Black Knight of Apocalypse -- Religious, Political and Global -- Complicating the "Clash of Civilizations": Gender and Politics in Contemporary Kuwait -- The "Social Integration" of Religious Groups in Society: A Social Mechanism Approach -- PART II: RELIGION BETWEEN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC, STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY -- Christian Religion in the West: Privatization or Public Revitalization? -- The Cultural Foundations of Islamist Leadership in Morocco -- The Protestant House Church and Its Poverty of Rights in China -- Rethinking the Role of the Catholic Church in Building Civil Society in Contemporary China: The Case of Wenzhou Diocese -- PART III: RELIGION AND POLITICS BETWEEN COMMUNITARIANISM AND POLICY OF IDENTITY -- India: The Politics of (Re)conversion to Hinduism of Christian Aboriginals -- Religion and Politics: The Italian Case -- The Reciprocal Instrumentalization of Religion and Politics in Brazil -- The Reinvention of Cuban Santería and the Politics of Identity -- A Secular Cancellation of the Secularist Truce: Religion and Political Legitimation in Australia -- The Concept of Implicit Religion: What, When, How, and Why? -- List of Contributors -- Index.