Introduction / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Saba Mahmood, and Peter G. Danchin -- Imagining the Hebrew republic : Christian genealogies of religious freedom / Robert Yelle -- On the freedom of the concepts of religion and belief / Yvonne Sherwood -- Believing in religious freedom / Elizabeth Shakman Hurd -- What is religious freedom supposed to free? / Webb Keane -- The power of pluralist thinking / Courtney Bender -- Reflections on the politics of religious freedom, with attention to Hawaii / Greg Johnson -- Traditional, African, religious, freedom? / Rosalind I.J. Hackett -- The problem with the history of toleration / Evan Haefeli -- Religious minorities and citizenship in the long nineteenth century : some contexts of Jewish emancipation / David Sorkin -- Varieties of religious freedom and governance : a practical perspective / Robert W. Hefner -- Religious freedom between truth and tactic / Samuel Moyn -- Religious freedom, minority rights, and geopolitics / Saba Mahmood -- Ceylon/Sri Lanka : the politics of religious freedom and the end of empire / Benjamin Schonthal -- Liberty as recognition / Nandini Chatterjee -- Postapartheid treatment of religious freedom in South Africa / Waheeda Amien -- Religious freedom in postrevolutionary Tunisia / Nadia Marzouki -- Beyond establishment / Lori G. Beaman -- The bishops, the sisters, and religious freedom / Elizabeth A. Castelli -- The world that Smith made / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan -- Religious freedom in the Panopticon of Enlightenment rationality / Peter G. Danchin -- Everson’s children / Ann Pellegrini -- Protecting freedom of religion in the secular age / Cécile Laborde -- Freeing religion at the birth of South Sudan / Noah Salomon -- Is religion free? / Michael Lambek -- Religious freedom and the bind of suspicion in contemporary secularity / Hussein Ali Agrama -- Religious repression and religious freedom : an analysis of their contradictions in (post-)Soviet contexts / Mathijs Pelkmans -- Religious freedom’s oxymoronic edge / Wendy Brown.