Chapter 1, ‘Secularisation, Secularism and the Post-Secular: The Power Dimension’, was given at Moscow State University in September 2013 and at Heidelberg University in July 2013. It was translated into German, and published in Russian and English in Religion, State and Church in Russia and Worldwide (Fall 2013).
A shortened version of Chapters 2–5 was published as ‘Religion und Gewalt’, in Transit: Europäische Revue 43 (Winter 2012/13), pp. 137–58. Chapter 5 was originally a short paper given in Vienna for the IWM conference on secularism in June 2012, chaired by Charles Taylor, at the Institut Français, Vienna.
Chapter 6, ‘The Political Future of Religion’, was prepared for a conference arranged by Villa Gillet, Lyons, in November 2012, and published on its website.
Chapter 7 on ‘Nationalism and Religion: Collective Identity and Choice’ was given as the Ernest Gellner Memorial Lecture for 2013, at the London School of Economics (LSE) in April 2013, and published in Nations and Nationalism i 20:1, January 2014.
Chapter 8, ‘Charisma and Founding Fatherhood’, was given at the nationalism conference of April 2011 at the LSE, and published in a shortened version in Vivian Ibrahim and Margit Wunsch (eds), Political Leadership, Nations and Charisma (Abingdon: Routledge, 2012) as Chapter 3, pp. 40–51. I am grateful to Routledge for permission to reprint.
Chapter 10 was published as ‘Religión, política y secularización: comparaciones entre Europe del Oeste y del Este’ in Rodrigo Muñoz, Javier Sánchez Cañizares and Gregorio Guitián (eds), Religión, Sociedad Moderna y Razón Práctica (Pamplona: EUNSA, 2012), pp. 15–31. It was also translated into Ukrainian for the purposes of the University of L’viv during my visit there in 2011.
Chapter 11 was given at the Ernst-Troeltsch-Gesellschaft Kongress in Munich in October 2011.
A shorter version of Chapter 13 was given at a conference on post-secularity held at Groningen University in 2009 and published in Arie Molendijk, Justin Beaumont and Christoph Jedan (eds), Exploring the Postsecular: The Religious, the Political and the Urban (Leiden and Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2010), pp. 345–62. I am grateful to Brill for permission to reprint.
Discussions related to the argument of this book are to be found in my two articles for the 2014 Wiley-Blackwell volumes on World Christianity edited by Michael McClymond and Lamin Sanneh: one deals with secularisation in Europe and North America and the other with Christianity, Western music and the return of the sacred.