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The Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Five Democracies | 
 enlarge | Authors: Stephen V. Monsma, J. Christophen Soper
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 364717
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0742554171
Dewey Decimal Number: 322.1090511
EAN: 9780742554177
Publication Date: September 28, 2008
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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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great book May 4, 2000
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
this was a required text in a college political science class. the book gave concise examples of concepts and read easily. plus, dr. hertzke was one of the book's editors.
Transcending liberalist ideology: the church-state case December 16, 1999
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I give this book more exactly 4,5 stars. I am glad I acquired the book and included it in my personal library of political science. The authors build on a solid framework of different church-state regimes. They analyse neither too many nor two few countries. However, extension by others to cover more countries would be welcome. One can also ask if a similar approach could not be used for studying relations of the state to other organisations than churches. In all cases, the hypothesis is that explicit separation of the state from certain values leads to implicit support to those who are the strongest in pushing the values of their own.
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