This volume provides multiple perspectives on the processes through which religious communities create or defend their place in a given society, both in history and in our world today. Offering a critical, cross-disciplinary investigation into processes of negotiating religion and religious diversity, the contributors present new insights on the meaning and substance of negotiation itself. The focus on the European experiences that have shaped not only the history of 'negotiating religion' in this region but around the world provide new perspectives for critical inquiries into the way in which contemporary societies engage with religion.

François Guesnet is Reader in Modern Jewish History in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London. He specialises in the early modern and nineteenth century history of Polish and eastern European Jewry. Most recently, he co-edited Antisemitism in an Era of Transition. Continuities and Impact in Post-Communist Poland and Hungary (Peter Lang Verlag, 2014, with Gwenyth Jones) and Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis. Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky (Brill Academic Publishers, 2015, with Glenn Dynner).

Cécile Laborde is Professor of Political Theory and the Director of the Religion and Political Theory (RAPT) Centre at University College London. She has published widely on theories of law and the state, global justice, republicanism and secularism. Her last book is Critical Republicanism: The Hijab Controversy and Political Philosophy.

Lois Lee is Research Associate at the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL (University College London). She has published widely on nonreligion, secularism and religion and is the author of Recognizing the Non-religious: Reimagining the Secular (Oxford University Press, 2015), co-editor of Secularity and Non-Religion (Routledge, 2013) and of special issues for the Journal of Contemporary Religion (2012) and Religion (2014).

1. Regulating Religious Diversity in Liberal Societies

Maleiha Malik

2. Negotiating Religion: Historical Trajectories

François Guesnet

3. Negotiating Religious Difference in Early Modern Europe: Ecclesiastical, Political and Social Processes

Benjamin J. Kaplan

4. Negotiating under Duress: The Expulsion of Salzburg Protestants (1732) and the Jews of Prague (1744)

François Guesnet

5. Negotiating Religion in Constitutional Politics and Political Philosophy

Cécile Laborde

6. Can there be a Public Reason of the Heart?

Albert Weale

7. The Ethics of Establishment: Fairness and Human Rights as Different Standards of Neutrality

Saladin Meckled-Garcia

8. Alternative Futures for Formal Church Establishment: Two Case Studies from the UK

Robert M. Morris

9. Everyday Negotiations: Religion in Urban Life

Claire Dwyer

10. Creating Religious Homes in London: Sacralising Space in a Deeply Globalised City

John Eade

11. Community Organising, Democratic Citizenship and Interfaith Relations

Luke Bretherton

12. Negotiating with Religion from a Legal Perspective

Myriam Hunter-Henin

13. Believing in Negotiation: Reflection on Law's Regulation of Religious Symbols in State Schools

Myriam Hunter-Henin

14. New Issues for Negotiation: Schools and Religious Freedom

Lucy Vickers