Church State category: 1367 books

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Ekklesia

Three Inquiries in Church and State

by Paul Christopher Johnson, Pamela E. Klassen, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018

Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State offers a New World rejoinder to the largely Europe-centered academic discourse on church and state. In contrast to what is often assumed, in the Americas the relationship between church and state has not been one of freedom or separation but one of unstable...
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by Donald McFadyen, Michael Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012

Many people, including those who are not regular churchgoers, have a sense that the Church of England is important for the nation’s well-being, and that we would be the poorer without it. Can our Christian foundations laid in the past provide the inspiration, the vision, for new life together in...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010

Study of church and state in the United States is incredibly complex. Scholars working in this area have backgrounds in law, religious studies, history, theology, and politics, among other fields. Historically, they have focused on particular angles or dimensions of the church-state relationship,...
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Religious Routes to Gladstonian Liberalism

The Church Rate Conflict in England and Wales 1852–1868

by Jacob Ellens
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 1994

This book, covering the period 1832 to 1868, describes how the so-called "church rates" controversy contributed to the rise of a secular liberal state in England and Wales. The church rate was an ancient tax required of all ratepayers, regardless of denomination, for the upkeep of parish...
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Church and State

Examining the Wall of Separation

by Adelbert L. Wilber Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018

Church and State examines the wall of separation Thomas Jefferson spoke of in his letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802 to answer a letter from them written in October 1801. The Danbury Baptists were a religious minority in Connecticut, and they complained that in their state, the religious...
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by Daniel Dreisbach
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002

No phrase in American letters has had a more profound influence on church-state law, policy, and discourse than Thomas Jefferson’s “wall of separation between church and state,” and few metaphors have provoked more passionate debate. Introduced in an 1802 letter to the Danbury, Connecticut Baptist...
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The Challenge of Pluralism

Church and State in Six Democracies

by J. Christopher Soper, Kevin R. den Dulk, Stephen V. Monsma
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017

In a thoroughly revised and expanded edition that now includes France, this essential text offers a rigorous, systematic comparison of church-state relations in six Western nations: the United States, France, England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Australia. As successful and stable political democracies,...
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by Robert Boston
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010

Award-winning journalist Robert Boston lambastes the zealots of the Religious Right for spreading misinformation about the constitutional principle of the separation of church and state. Boston reveals how a band of ultraconservative religious groups with a political agenda - led primarily by televangelist...
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Taxing the Church

Religion, Exemptions, Entanglement, and the Constitution

by Edward A. Zelinsky
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017

This book explores the taxation and exemption of churches and other religious institutions, both empirically and normatively. This exploration reveals that churches and other religious institutions are treated diversely by the federal and state tax systems. Sectarian institutions pay more tax than...
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Piety & Politics

The Right-Wing Assault on Religious Freedom

by Reverend Barry W. Lynn
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006

The Reverend Barry Lynn explains why the Religious Right has it all wrong. In the wake of the 2004 presidential election, the Religious Right insisted that George Bush had been handed a mandate for an ideology-based social agenda, including the passage of a “marriage amendment” to ban same-sex...
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Founding Faith

Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America

by Steven Waldman
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008

The culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Many activists on the right maintain that the United States was founded as a “Christian nation.” Many on the left contend that the Founders were secular or Deist and that the First Amendment was designed...
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The Second Disestablishment

Church and State in Nineteenth-Century America

by Steven Green
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010

Debates over the proper relationship between church and state in America tend to focus either on the founding period or the twentieth century. Left undiscussed is the long period between the ratification of the Constitution and the 1947 Supreme Court ruling in Everson v. Board of Education, which...
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The Catholic Church in State Politics

Negotiating Prophetic Demands and Political Realities

by David A. Yamane
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005

What role, if any, should religion play in politics? By what authority and methods does the Catholic Church apply its teachings to public policy discourse? How do Bishops and lay leaders work together in Catholic conferences, and how do they work with political leaders? What impact do they have? The...
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Viva Cristo Rey!

The Cristero Rebellion and the Church-State Conflict in Mexico

by David C. Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013

Between 1926 and 1929, thousands of Mexicans fought and died in an attempt to overthrow the government of their country. They were the Cristeros, so called because of their battle cry, Viva Cristo Rey!—Long Live Christ the King! The Cristero rebellion and the church-state conflict remain one of the...
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