Bücher der Reihe Religious Forces in the Modern Political World

This is an analysis of the social and political implications of Protestantism. It asserts that the most important distinction is between churches that are of the poor and those that are still instituted from outside the culture or run by an intellectual or economic elite.

Based on a nation-wide survey, this text examines the implications of the financial relationship between church and state, whereby hundreds of millions of public dollars flow annually to religiously based non-profit organizations in America.

Cultural conflict plays an increasingly dominant role in American politics, with religion acting as a catalyst in the often bitter confrontations ranging from abortion to public education. These essays present a mixed asessment of the scope and divisiveness of such conflicts.

Everson Revisited explores the consequences and future implications of Everson v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court case that permitted the use of tax revenue to transport students to parochial schools while simultaneously calling for an impenetrable ''wall of separation'' between religion and public schools.