church-state relationship

• Lessons for today? The church-state relationship in twentieth-century Christian ecumenical thought.

• Journal of Church and State
• Vol. 45 Nbr. 1, January 2003

• The two kingdoms doctrine and the relationship of church and state in the early Reformed tradition.

United Kingdom

• Journal of Church and State
• Vol. 49 Nbr. 4, September 2007

• Texas Public Education

The Texas State Board of Education has adopted a sweeping conservative overhaul of public education history and social studies curricula to reframe the concept of church-state separation, America's relationship with the United Nations and hundreds of other items, according to The Associated Press. The changes were pushed through in a series of 9-5 party-line votes with Democrats and moderate Republicans losing repeatedly to conservative Republicans. Changes in Texas have national significance because many textbooks are written to satisfy its large market and affect content in books sold in other states.

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• August 03, 2010

• Church-State Relations and the Legal Status of Religious Communities in Slovenia

Although religious freedom in the Republic of Slovenia is protected under the Constitution of 1991, the doctrines defining the contours of the church-state relationship are still developing. The legislature and courts have taken various approaches in defining this relationship - at times they apply principles of strict government neutrality, and at other times, they provide more room for church-state cooperation in achieving common social goals. This article provides a survey of religious freedom in Slovenia and emphasizes the potential for church-state cooperation. Beginning with a brief history of the church-state relationship in Slovenia, the article focuses on the current constitutional and statutory provisions affecting religious communities and reviews modern trends in church-stat...

... of religious communities and the churchstate relationship are specifically addressed in Article...

• Brigham Young University Law Review
• Vol. 2004 Nbr. 2, January 2004

• The relationship between church and state in the post-Soviet world: the case of Christianity in Central Asia.

• Journal of Church and State
• Vol. 49 Nbr. 1, January 2007

• Church and State ; Professor Examines the Relationship of the Catholic Church to Government.

The history of the Catholic Church, good and bad, shows what an influential institution it has been in countries around the world and in people's lives. Lawrence C. Reardon, an associate professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire, decided that an academic study of the Catholic Church's relationship to government would be a worthwhile topic.

• Portland Press Herald
• April 02, 2007

• Church-State Relations in the European Court of Human Rights

This article explores the ways in which the requirements of religious freedom in the the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) permit certain types of relationships between Church and State but also restricts the scope of permissible relations. It provides a discussion of the permissible boundaries of church-state relations within the ECHR. It considers the key provisions in the ECHR that potentially impact church-state relations. It discusses the case law of the European Court of Human Rights in relation to the type of benefits that the state can grant to an established church and the degree of control that the state can exercise over it. It concludes by comparing the strengths and weaknesses of a purely religious-freedom focused approac...

• Brigham Young University Law Review
• Vol. 2006 Nbr. 3, May 2006

• Civil religion uncivil strife: prayer at governmental meetings has often provoked rancorous debate about the relationship between church and state in America.

• Church & State
• Vol. 60 Nbr. 5, May 2007

• Lost Opportunity: Bush V. Holmes and the Application of State Constitutional Uniformity Clauses to School Voucher Schemes

Most legal challenges to school voucher programs have focused on the question of whether a voucher program that permits the use of public funds in private religious schools constitutes an unconstitutional establishment of religion.1 In the wake of the Supreme Court's 2002 decision in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris2 that such programs do not violate the First Amendment, the question remains whether they will be found to violate state constitutional provisions governing the relationship between church and state. In Bush v. Holmes, decided in January 2006, the court heard a challenge to the Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), a school voucher program permitting the use of vouchers in religious schools.4 The plaintiffs claimed that the OSP violated not only Florida's constitutional no aid cla...

• Journal of Law and Education
• Vol. 35 Nbr. 4, October 2006

• Good Imam, Bad Imam: Civic Religion and National Integration in Britain Post-9/11

The public sphere is structurally differentiated into "opportunity spaces" - such as politics, education, media and the law - that Muslim minorities seek to take up.7 But more than institutional advance, Muslim minorities usually attempt to make an argument for access to these "opportunity spaces" based on equity and the precedent of the church(es)-state relationship to justify the process of further deprivatization.8 In Britain, this precedent takes the form of Anglican establishment, which is not only widely accepted but also defended by Muslim leaders as generally protecting the public role of religion in what is seen as a secular society.9 This rationale is endorsed by a liberal Anglican establishment committed, by virtue of British Christianity's historical pluralism and strong int...

• Muslim World, The
• Vol. 96 Nbr. 4, October 2006