Church-state Relations

Acknowledgments -- Introduction Part I General Considerations -- 1. General Considerations in the Study of Contemporary Church-State Relationships /Roland Robertson -- 2. The Restoration of “Power” to the Sociology of Religion /James A. Beckford -- 3. Church-State Relations and the World System /Roland Robertson -- 4. When Will Revolutionary Movements Use Religion? /Leland W. Robinson -- Part II Church-State Tension in the United States -- 5. Church-State Tension in the United States /Thomas Robbins -- 6. A Mythical Past and Uncertain Future /N. J. Demerath III and Rhys H. Williams -- 7. The Courts and Secular Humanism /Phillip E. Hammond -- 8.Religious Exemptions /Leo Pfeffer -- 9. The Supreme Court Redefines Tax Exemption /Dean M. Kelley -- 10. Civil Rights, Indian Rites /Robert S. Michaelsen -- 11. Church-State Tensions and Marginal Movements in the United States /Thomas Robbins Part III Comparative Perspectives -- 12. Church-State Relations in Comparative Perspective /Roland Robertson -- 13. Religion, the State and Political Legitimacy in the World’s Constitutions /John Markoff and Daniel Regan -- 14. Symbiosis of Religious and Political Authorities in Islam /Hamid Dabashi -- 15. Latin America and Liberation Theology /Roland Robertson -- 16. Civil Religion vs. State Power in Poland /Ewa Morawska -- 17. Religion, State and Civil Society: Nation-Building in Australia /Bryan S. Turner -- 18. State, Religion and Law in Ireland /John Fulton -- 19. The British Right to Discriminate /Eileen Barker -- About the Contributors -- Index.