Proceedings of a workshop held in Dec. 2008 at the University of Newcastle, NSW.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-317) and index.

Introduction: The rise and fall of Christendom / John Gascoigne and Hilary M. Carey -- Ironies of English Erastianism: Puritanism and the outbreak of the English civil wars / Jared van Duinen -- Protestant problem and church-state relations in old regime France / David Garrioch -- Church and state in post-Reformation Germany, 1530-1914 / John A. Moses -- Broad church movement, national culture, and the established churches of Great Britain, c.1850-c.1900 / Stewart J. Brown -- Crisis of ecclesiastical privilege in Spain and Spanish America: the question of insurgent clergy, 1780-1820 / David Cahill -- Gladstone, the colonial church, and imperial state / Hilary M. Carey -- Church of England and the British imperial state: Anglican metropolitan sermons of the 1850s / Rowan Strong -- Debating the US church-state boundary, then and now: Virginia as a case study / Frank Lambert -- Church and state in New Zealand, 1835-1870: religion, politics, and race / John Stenhouse -- Church and state in the history of Australian welfare / John Murphy -- From Anglican gaol to religious pluralism: re-casting Anglican views of church and state in Australia / Bruce Kaye.

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