| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Religious minorities: Setting the scenes -- PART 1 Mapping the minority religions -- 2 What do the censuses tell us about minority religions? Some reflections on Estonia -- 3 Religious minorities in Geneva: Reconsidering the category -- 4 Minority religions in contemporary Lithuania: On the margins of the field of religion? -- 5 Spiritual movements in times of crisis: a nanthropological account of alternative spirituality in Portugal and Greece -- 6 Sacred homeland, glorious ancestors and old-time language: Ethnic elements in the identity of the Zoroastrian religious minority in modern tehran -- 7 Jehovah's Witnesses and the Middle East -- PART 2 Monitoring, regulation and opposition -- 8 New religious movements in France: the legal situation -- 9 Religious minorities in democratic Spain: Rekindling the past and considering the future -- 10 What do we talk about when we talk about legitimate religion? Failure and success in the registration of two Pagan communities in Finland -- 11 Religious liberty in the Russian Federation after 1997 -- 12 The Church of Scientology in Hungary: A "religious multinationals" case study -- 13 Two steps forward, one step back: the shaping of a community-building discourse among Israeli Pagans, 1998-2012 -- 14 The Gülen movement -- 15 Religion, social change and responding to persecution - the case of the Bahá'í community in Iran -- 16 The Bektashi-Alevi spectrum from the Balkans to Iran: Sufi minorities and politics -- 17 Key data on religions by country -- Index
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