Religion beyond its Private Role in Modern Society -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- General Issues -- Religion and Politics in Post-Secular Society: Beyond the Public/Private Divide -- New Forms of Public Religion: Spirituality in Global Civil Society -- Institutional Religion -- Particularity and Contextuality Interrupting the Public / Private Debate Concerning Religion -- Going Public: Minority Muslim Communities and Public Space in Syria (Prior to the Revolt) -- Apostasy in Islam: Public or Private? Classical and Contemporary Discussions of Muslim Scholars and their Relevance for Muslims in the West -- Light from the East (1948-1954) and the De-territorialization of the Assyrian Church in the East -- Jews and the Social Contract -- Religion in Greek Society State, Public or Private? -- Early Christian Eschatology as a Model for the Modern Practice of Interfaith Dialogue-an Eschatological Model -- "Be a Jew at Home as Well as in the Street": Religious Worldviews in a Liberal Democracy -- Private Belief, Public Avowal: Religious Liberals and the Ethics of Sincerity -- Non-Institutional Religion -- Relocating the Public and Reforming the Private: Tourism and the Survival of an Ancestor Cult in the Mexican Town of Mitla, Oaxaca -- "A World Awaits": The Meaning of Mediatized Paganism in Online Computer Games -- Public Individualism in Contemporary Dutch Shamanism -- Some Thoughts on Privatisation and De-institutionalisation: Religion in the Public Sphere -- Religion in Liquid Modernity: Collective Manifestations of Religion in Secularizing Dutch Society -- Index.