Religion, Authority, and the State

Part I. International Perspectives

1. Specters of a New Ecumenism: In Search of a Church “Out of Joint”
Dale T. Irvin

2. Religion and the State: Contexts, Controversies, and Conjectures in Australia, Indonesia, and Egypt
Patricia Madigan

Part II. Africa and Asia

3. A Postcolonial Theological Reading of the Philippines: Church-State Relation and a Familia Dei Response
Pascal D. Bazzell

4. Diagnosing the Politics of Christian-Muslim Conflicts in the West African Sub-Region: Going beyond the Western Paradigm
Chukwumamkpam Vincent Ifeme

5. Islamic Extremism in West Africa: A Historical and Theological Analysis of the Crisis of Religious Brigandage in Islam
Ikenna Okafor

Part III. The United States of America

6. The Reign of God and Constantine’s Disputed Legacy: Religious Freedom, Sacred Empire, and the American Experience
Leo D. Lefebure

7. The US Bishops’ Campaign for Religious Freedom During the 2012 Presidential Election Year: A Critical Analysis
Dennis M. Doyle

Part IV. Europe

8. Confessional Belonging and National Identity: A Case Study of Serbia, Croatia, and Germany
Vladimir Latinovic

9.
Sobornost’, State Authority, and Christian Society in Slavophile Political Theology
Nathaniel Wood

10. Church and State in England: A Fragile Establishment
Mark D. Chapman

11. Religion and the Rising: Patrick Pearse and Easter 1916
Gerard Mannion

Keywords: Religious Studies, Religion and Society, Social Aspects of Religion, Christianity, Social Sciences, general