Contributors ; Introduction ; Religious Pluralism as the Essential Foundation of America's Quest for Unity and Order, by Derek H. Davis ; Historical Dimensions ; The Founding Era (1774-1797) and the Constitutional Provision for Religion, by John F. Wilson ; Eighteenth-Century Religious Liberty: The Founding Generation's Protestant-Derived Understanding, by Barry Alan Shain ; Church and State in Nineteenth-Century America, by Steven K. Green ; Religious Advocacy by American Religious Institutions: A History, by Melissa Rogers ; Constitutional Dimensions ; Constitutional Language and Judicial Interpretations of the Free Exercise Clause, by Bette Novitt Evans ; The U.S. Supreme Court and Non-First Amendment Religion Cases, by Ronald B. Flowers ; The Meaning of the Separation of Church and State: Competing Views, by Daniel L. Dreisbach ; Managed Pluralism: The Emerging Church-State Model in the United States? by Nicholas Gvosdev ; Theological and Philosophical Dimensions ; Religious Liberty and Religious Minorities in the United States, by Elizabeth A. Sewell ; Religious Symbols and Religious Expression in the Public Square, by T. Jeremy Gunn ; Religious Liberty as a Democratic Institution," by Ted G. Jelen ; Pursuit of the Moral Good and the Church-State Conundrum in the United States: the Politics of Sexual Orientation beyond Lawrence, by Andrew R. Murphy and Caitlin Kerr ; Political Dimensions ; Monitoring and Surveillance of Religious Groups in the United States, by James T. Richardson and Thomas Robbins ; The U.S. Congress: Protecting and Accommodating Religion, by Allen D. Hertzke ; The Christian Right and Church-State Issues, by Clyde Wilcox and Sam Potolicchio ; American Religious Liberty in International Perspective, by John Witte, Jr. ; Sociological Dimensions ; Supply-side Changes in American Religion: Exploring the Implications of Church-State Relations, by Roger Finke ; Peeking through Jefferson's Wall: A Sociological Assessment of U.S. Church-State Relations, by N.J. Demerath, III ; The Role of Civil Religion in American Society, by Richard V. Pierard ; Conclusion ; The Interplay of Law, Religion, and Politics in the United States, by Derek H. Davis ; Bibliography ; Index

Selling point: Provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between church and state in the United States Selling point: Contains twenty essays by leading scholars in the field on a wide range of issues of church and state

Derek H. Davis is the Dean of the College of Humanities and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and Director of the UMHB Center for Religious Liberty. He was formerly Director of the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies and Professor of Political Science, Baylor University, and Editor of the Journal of Church and State. He is the author or editor of seventeen books, including Original Intent and Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789, and more than 150 articles in various journals and periodicals. He serves numerous organizations given to the protection of religious freedom in American and international contexts.

Selling point: Provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between church and state in the United States Selling point: Contains twenty essays by leading scholars in the field on a wide range of issues of church and state