| Foreword | |
| Introduction : religion gets real | 1 |
| Sect. I | Religion and (in)security : the twenty-first century challenge | |
| 1 | Religion and war in the twenty-first century | 11 |
| 2 | The politics of persecuted religious minorities | 25 |
| 3 | Uzbekistan and the Central Asian crucible of religion and security | 37 |
| Sect. II | Perspectives on pluralism : making a world safe for diversity | |
| 4 | Choosing exclusion or embrace : an Abrahamic theological perspective | 61 |
| 5 | Truth, pluralism, and religious diplomacy : a Christian dialogical perspective | 83 |
| 6 | Pluralism and the "people of the book" : an Islamic faith perspective | 99 |
| Sect. III | Into the breach : restoring sustainable security | |
| 7 | Military intervention and justice as equal regard | 115 |
| 8 | When the fighting stops : healing hearts with spiritual peacemaking | 131 |
| Sect. IV | Religious freedom and security : the civil society nexus | |
| 9 | Neither sacred nor secular : a public anthropology of human dignity, religious freedom, and security | 151 |
| 10 | Relational realism : toward a new political paradigm for security | 163 |
| Conclusion : a lively experiment, a most flourishing civil state | 175 |