Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 -- DAVID HERBERT -- PART ONE -- Chapter 1 Religion and the 'Great Transformation' 13 -- in Poland and East Germany -- DAVID HERBERT -- Chapter 2 Islam and human rights 65 -- DAVID HERBERT -- Chapter 3 What it meant and what it means: 115 -- feminism, religion and interpretation -- SUSAN MUMM -- Chapter 4 Buddhist responses to environmental crisis 153 -- HELEN WATERHOUSE --PART TWO -- Theologians and the renewal of democratic political 195 -- institutions -- JOHN BURGESS -- A feminist interpretation of women's rights in Islam 213 -- FATIMA MERNISSI -- Kali, the savior 239 -- LINA GUPTA -- The global environment as a religious issue: 261 -- a sociological analysis -- PETER BEYER