The Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Five Democracies

The Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Five Democracies
ISBN-10
0742557405
ISBN-13
9780742557406
Series
The Challenge of Pluralism
Category
Political Science
Pages
279
Language
English
Published
2008-09-05
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Authors
Stephen V. Monsma, J. Christopher Soper

Description

Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, this essential text offers a rigorous, systematic comparison of church-state relations in the United States, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, and England. Stephen V. Monsma and J. Christopher Soper examine the historical roots and contemporary strategies of the different approaches each government has taken. Providing clarity on the little-understood, evolving relationship between church and state in the West, this book provides an invaluable comparative analysis of a topic that is increasingly a source of profound political and social conflict. The authors persuasively argue that the United States can learn a great deal from other Western democracies in promoting religious neutrality and the free exercise of religion.

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