Policies dealing with religious diversity in liberal democratic statesβas well as the established institutions that enforce those policiesβare increasingly under pressure. Politics and political theory are caught in a trap between the fully secularized state and neo-corporate regimes of selective cooperation between states and organized religion. This volume proposes an original, comprehensive, and multidisciplinary approach to problems of governing religious diversityβcombining moral and political philosophy, constitutional law, history, sociology, and religious anthropology. Drawing on such diverse scholarship, Secularism or Democracy? proposes an associational governanceβa moderately libertarian, flexible variety of democratic institutional pluralismβas the plausible third way to overcome the inherent deficiencies of the predominant models.