Includes bibliographical references and index.

Religion and war in the twenty-first century / Pauletta Otis -- The politics of persecuted religious minorities / Philip Jenkins -- Uzbekistan and the central Asian crucible of religion and security / Chris Seiple and Joshua White -- Choosing exclusion or embrace : an Abrahamic theological perspective / Manfred T. Brauch -- Truth, pluralism, and religious diplomacy : a Christian dialogical perspective / Christopher A. Hall -- Pluralism and the "people of the book" : an Islamic faith perspective / Osman bin Bakar -- Military intervention and justice as equal regard / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- When the fighting stops : healing hearts with spiritual peacemaking / Marc Gopin -- Neither sacred nor secular : a public anthropology of human dignity, religious freedom, and security / Kevin J. Hasson -- Relational realism : toward a new political paradigm for security / Harold H. Saunders.