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Gary Craig and Maggie O’Neill's topical chapter on British national and local policies on ‘race’ argues that due in part to deliberate strategies to water down equality legislation, and partly due to the unintended consequences of ‘race’ policy, especially at the local level, ‘race’ policy has operated to sweep racism under the carpet or, worse, served to reinforce and institutionalise racism. They illustrate, through case studies of three English regions, how central and local government policies have made race and racism invisible. This, according to the authors, has led to the development of an institutionalised indifference to racial disadvantage, undermining the social welfare of minority ethnic groups in the UK.

The world of interreligious relationships is the theme of Chapter 4. The author focuses on the intimate relationship between Christian thinker Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and his intimate correspondent the Jewish theologian Franz Rosenzweig. The chapter also expands on the discussion to the dialogue between the West and Islam. The fragmentation of the Abrahamic religions can be explored through the contrasts between them by examining the relationships within them.

This chapter discusses tensions between Jews and Muslims concerning issues such as genocide and politics. This account of contemporary research will conclude that collaboration can occur if one can create case studies of suffering of one group even when the other group denies pain in contemporary life, whether through political or social means. This case study hopes to offset the imbalance between the Jews and Muslims by providing an account of the denial of one group’s suffering.

Chapter 3, an essay on the politics of circumcision in the contemporary Western Diaspora of Jews and Muslims, frames the debates about religious practice and ideas of health and illness and reflects historical conflicts about religious practices in the Abrahamic religions. The health exception is used to argue for or against what is in its essence a religious practice.

Chapter 1 is a cultural critique on the phenomenon of sacred text translation, centering on the enormous global Bible translation project, but also including comparative references to the Qur‘an, and to sacred texts of religions other than Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This is framed by a general discussion of the triangular relationship of language, religion and nationalism.

This essay looks into the conflicts and collaborations amongst different Jewish groups in Hong Kong from the second half of the nineteenth century to the years following Hong Kong’s handover to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1997. In examining this former British Colony, now a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of People’s Republic of China, this essay adds a new dimension to the parallel discussions of intra-communal Jewish life in Europe and North America

This chapter focuses on a period in which the trope of the German Jewish love affair enjoyed particular popularity, namely in the decade after the reunification of Germany. The use of love as a model for group relations can personalize the political, individualize the social and romanticize power relations; it even legitimize the hegemonic forces of a dominant culture. The chapter discusses the models of interaction, communication and collaboration between the social groups through German feature films that dramatize interreligious love to highlight moments of solidarity and collaboration between Jews and non-Jews during the Third Reich, and the works of the German Jewish writer Barbara Honigmann, that depicts the memory of the National Socialist past as a lasting obstacle to Jewish Gentile love relationships.

This chapter call attention to the fluid, processual, and context-dependent nature of Jewish-Muslim relations. The author will focus on a number of historical and ethnographic episodes pertaining to the mutual perceptions of Jews and Muslims in South Asia to explore tropes of collaboration and conflict that are present in the accounts of both communities of the subcontinent and to reflect on the intricate and complex ways in which issues in local and global politics, such as Indian caste relations, the rhetoric of the “war on terror”, and the conflict in the Middle East, affect these relations

Chapter 9 explores the East End of London as a place for the conflict and collaboration among the Abrahamic faiths from the nineteenth century into the present. In discussing how diaspora and religion interrelate, the chapter presents two examples of the complexities. One of them is the Anglican Church, and the other the Altab Ali park.

This reading of the Damascus Affair reveals that the Jews’ victory does not provide a last vestige of support for an interpretation of the affair as a victory for the progress of reason and toleration in the face of barbarism and prejudice. The Jews’ exculpation in Britain was the political and military outcome in the near East, and the political culture which protected the Jews in Britain was steeped in an anti-Catholic current. The Jews’ victory, we might say, signified defeat for one form of prejudice and victory for another.