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Encounters between agents of the state and religious organizations have been increasing throughout the world, thus the need to understand the relationships between religion and other major domains of life is increasingly important. In this comprehensive reader on church-state relations, scholars examine the connections between religion and political life from a comparative perspective.

11905 Oden Court, Rockville, MD, 20852 ; Copy of a report presented by Bordelon at the New England Association of Political Scientists' meeting in Providence, RI, April 3, 1992.

Over the last fifty years, the evolution of church-state jurisprudence in the Supreme Court of the United States has closely paralleled developments in race relations in the country. This Article examines how developments in race relations may have facilitated both the rise of strict church-state separationism in the 1960s and 1970s and its decline in the last twenty years, tracing the course of church-state relations not only in the Court itself, but in the broader society. The Article specifically argues that the strict separationism of the 1960s and early 1970s partially stemmed from a concern for religious minority rights inspired largely by the struggle for equal rights for blacks. In turn, this Article argues that strict separationism has declined in the last twenty years as secular-oriented theologies of social activism have faced serious challenges and lost ground, and as developments in race relations have aided the rise of governmental aid to religious educational institutions.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: General Considerations -- 1: General Considerations in the Study of Contemporary Church-State Relationships -- 2: The Restoration of "Power" to the Sociology of Religion -- 3: Church-State Relations and the World System -- 4: When Will Revolutionary Movements Use Religion? -- Part II: Church-State Tension in the United States -- 5: Church-State Tension in the United State -- 6: A Mythical Past and Uncertain Future -- 7: The Courts and Secular Humanism -- 8: Religious Exemptions -- 9: The Supreme Court Redefines Tax Exemption -- 10: Civil Rights, Indian Rites -- 11: Church-State Tensions and Marginal Movements in the United States -- Part III: Comparative Perspectives -- 12: Church-State Relations in Comparative Perspective -- 13: Religion, the State and Political Legitimacy in the World's Constitutions -- 14: Symbiosis of Religious and Political Authorities in Islam -- 15: Latin America and Liberation Theology -- 16: Civil Religion Vs. State Power in Poland -- 17: Religion, State and Civil Society: Nation-Building in Australia -- 18: State, Religion and Law in Ireland -- 19: The British Right to Discriminate -- About the Contributors -- Index.