ERIC Number: ED278596
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1985
Pages: 155
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Religion and Government in Other Countries. Church, State and the First Amendment: A North Carolina Dialogue.
Livingston, James C., Ed.
This anthology provides an introduction to a variety of theories about and historical types of church-state relations, past and present. It provides foreign models against which citizens can judge the strengths and weaknesses of U.S. constitutional arrangements. The analysis looks at Catholicism, Islam, Lutheranism, Calvinism, Judaism, and the Protestant "Free Church" tradition within the nine chapters: (1) "A Comparative Look at Church-State Relations"; (2) "The Theocratic Ideal"; (3) "The State Church"; (4) "The Roman Catholic Position and Its Development"; (5) "A Distinction between the 'Two Kingdoms'"; (6) "The Case of Israel: A State Poised between Secular Democracy and Theocratic Law"; (7) "Separationism: The Witness of the Free or Believers' Church"; (8) "Separationism: Examples from Some Modern Secular States"; and (9) "Cooperation of Church and State: The Example of Education in Europe." Following each chapter are readings, questions for discussions, and suggestions for further reading. (KWL)
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NFAH), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: North Carolina Univ., Chapel Hill. Program in the Humanities and Human Values.
Identifiers - Location: Germany; Iran; Israel; United Kingdom; United States
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