Religion and the State: Europe and North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

The historiography of church—state relations in America and Europe remains a live cultural, religious, and political issue on both sides of the Atlantic. Even more, current political invocations of history illuminate the need for a thoroughly trans—Atlantic approach to the history of church—state relations in the modern West. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the formative period for modern church—states relations we see vividly the complex interrelationship of developments from ...