Writing history, constructing religion / James G. Crossley and Christian Karner -- Defining history / James G. Crossley -- Postmodernism and the study of religions / Christian Karner -- On 'religion': speeches to its cultural despisers / Philip Goodchild -- Postmodernism before and after: the fate of secularization / Alan Aldridge -- The crisis of representation in Islamic studies / Hugh Goddard -- Living yesterday in today and tomorrow: Meskhetian Turks in Southern Russia / Kathryn Tomlinson -- Who's afraid of Jesus Christ? Some comments on attempts to write a life of Jesus / Maurice Casey -- History from the margins: the death of John the Baptist / James G. Crossley -- 'If Isaac could speak ... ': redefining sacrifice / Maria Varsam -- Ideological 'deconstructing' in myth, history and memory / Seth Kunin -- Writing Hindutva history, constructing nationalist religion / Christian Karner.