Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Foreword -- List of Abbreviations -- Part I Minority Religions and International Legal and Ethical Norms - an Overview -- 1 State Reactions to Minority Religions: A Legal Overview -- 2 The UN Human Rights Committee and Religious Minorities -- Part II Minority Religions and Islam -- 3 Religious Minorities and Conversion as National Security Threats in Turkey and Iran -- 4 Springtime for Freedom of Religion or Belief -- 5 Indonesia: Between Religious Harmony and Religious Freedom -- 6 A Legal Analysis of Ahmadi Persecution in Pakistan -- Part III Atlantic Models - Religious Minorities, Diversity and the 'European West' -- 7 Public Policies and Cults in European Case Law -- 8 The French System against Sectarian Deviations -- 9 The French 'War on Cults' Revisited: Three Remarks on an On-going Controversy -- 10 Switzerland and Religious Minorities: Legal, Political and Educational Responses -- Part IV Moving Eastward - Emerging Democracies and the Communist Legacy -- 11 Recognition, Registration and Autonomy of Religious Groups -- 12 The State, New Religious Movements, and Legislation on Religion -- 13 With Fear and Favour: Minority Religions and the Post-Soviet Russian State -- 14 China's Responses to Minority Religions -- Part V Minority Religions in Non-European Democracies: Canadian and South African Models -- 15 Expanding the Scope of Regulation: Some Reflections on Religious Minorities in Canada -- 16 The Constitutional Protection of Religious Practices in Canada -- 17 Religious Minorities' Right to Self-Determination -- Bibliography -- Index.