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Introduction: Transnationalisation, Judicialisation and the Regulation of Religion From the National to the Transnational Regulation of Religion Religious Freedom Advocacy in a Transnational Legal Field Trajectories of Legal Mobilisation: Empirical Observations Contributions Chapter Outline 1. Fielding Religious Freedom Advocacy: A Sociological Approach to Transnational Legal Mobilisation Social Movements and Legal Mobilisation A Shift of Perspective: Mobilisation in (Transnational) Legal Fields Methods and Data 2. Enacting the Liberal Script: Religious Transatlantic Networks and an Emerging Legal Field From the Shadow of National Sovereignty to the Formation of a Transnational Legal Field Jehovah's Witnesses and Evangelicals: Early Pioneers of Religious Freedom Litigation Enacting the Liberal Frame of Religious Freedom 3. Constituting Identities: Sikhs between Symbolic Gains and Legal Marginalisation Diaspora Politics and Legal Mobilisation 'Jurimetrics' of the Challenger: Fitting the Legal Niche 4. The Orthodoxy of the Powerful: Christians Fighting against Change Federating Symbolic Capital Defending Incumbency Inequalities and Symbolic Boundaries 5. Endogenous Change in the Transnational Field: Jehovah's Witnesses, Muslims and Christians' Recursive Mobilisation Jehovah's Witnesses and the Expansion of Religious Freedoms Muslims between Repeat Failure and Growing Activism Conservative Christians' Pushback against Anti-Discrimination Norms Conclusion: Faith in Rights or Right Faith? Religious Freedom Mobilisation and the Governance of Religious Diversity Towards a Field-Theoretical Understanding of Legal Mobilisation? Religious Freedom quo vadis? Current Developments and Future Research Perspectives.