In a thoroughly revised and expanded edition that now includes France, this essential text offers a rigorous, systematic comparison of church-state relations in the United States, France, the Netherlands, Australia, England, and Germany. The authors 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 Challenge of Pluralism by J. Christopher Soper, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters