1 Religious Minorities: Setting the Scenes George D. Chryssides Part 1: Mapping the minority religions 2 What do the censuses tell about minority religions? Some reflections on Estonia Ringo Ringvee 3 Religious Minorities in Geneva: Reconsidering the Category Brigitte Knobel and Camille Gonzales 4 Minority Religions in Contemporary Lithuania: On the Margins of the Field of Religion? Milda Alisauskiene 5 Spiritual movements in times of crisis: An anthropological account of alternative spirituality in Portugal and Greece Eugenia Roussou 6 Sacred Homeland, Glorious Ancestors and Old-time Language: Ethnic Elements in the Identity of the Zoroastrian Religious Minority in Modern Tehran Paulina Niechcial 7 Jehovah's Witnesses and the Middle East George D. Chryssides Part 2: Monitoring, regulation and opposition 8 New Religious Movements in France: The Legal Situation Alain Garay 9 Religious minorities in democratic Spain: rekindling the past and considering the future Claude Proeschel 10 What do we talk about when we talk about legitimate religion? Failure and success in the registration of two Pagan communities in Finland Titus Hjelm, Essi Mäkelä, and Jussi Sohlberg 11 Religious Liberty in the Russian Federation after 1997 J. Eugene Clay 12 The Church of Scientology in Hungary: A 'Religious Multinationals' Case Study Holly Folk 13 Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Shaping of a Community-Building Discourse among Israeli Pagans, 1998-2012 Shai Feraro 14 The Gülen movement Inez Schippers 15 Religion, social change and responding to persecution - the case of the Bahá'í community in Iran Kishan Manocha and Saba Tahzib 16 The Bektashi-Alevi Spectrum from the Balkans to Iran: Sufi Minorities and Politics Stephen Suleyman Schwartz 17 Key Data on Religions by Country George D. Chryssides.