A number of issues pertaining to the questions of the role of religion in secular states and societies are addressed in this antology. How is the secular state to act in relation to religion?

The texts stem from the Engelsberg Seminar, arranged by Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation.

Roger Scruton, Jonathan Israel, Sunil Khilnani, Etyen Mahcupyan, Charles Tripp, Olivier Roy, Pierre Lellouche, Theodore Dalrymple, Lars Hedegaard, Carl Rudbeck, Edward Lucas, Tariq Ramadan, Ibn Warraq, Kenan Malik, nathan Shachar, Paul Scheffer, Dogu Ergil, Rolf Ekéus, Hugh Roberts