CONTENTS

PART I:    DANGEROUS RELIGIOUS IDEAS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1    What Are Dangerous Religious Ideas?

PART II:   SCRIPTURE

CHAPTER 2    Scripture as a Dangerous Religious Idea

CHAPTER 3    Judaism—The Canonization of Controversy

CHAPTER 4    Christianity—The Human Equation

CHAPTER 5    Islam—The Role of Doubt in Faith

CHAPTER 6    Scripture in the Contemporary Context

PART III: CHOSENNESS AND ELECTION, SUPERSESSION AND SALVATION

CHAPTER 7    A Matrix of Dangerous Religious Ideas

CHAPTER 8    Chosenness in Judaism

CHAPTER 9    Election in Christianity

CHAPTER 10  Divine Guidance in Islam

CHAPTER 11  Enduring Challenges

PART IV: GOOD AND DANGEROUS

CHAPTER 12  Religion in the Public Square? The Case of Criminal Justice

CHAPTER 13  The Space-In-Between

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index