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In this dynamic and wide-ranging collection of essays, prominent scholars examine the condition of church-state relations in the United States, France, and Israel. Their analyses are rooted in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from ethnography and demography to political science, gender studies, theology, and the law.

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I. INTRODUCTION: SECULARISM ON THE EDGE Jacques Berlinerblau, Georgetown University II. PART ONE: CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES TO AMERICAN SECULARISM 1. Is America a Christian nation or a secular nation?, John Fea and Jacques Berlinerblau 2. Let the study of American secularisms begin!, Jacques Berlinerblau 3. The United States Supreme Court´s Religion Clause jurisprudence, Caroline Mala Corbin 4. The vitality of soft secularism in the United States and the rise of the ´nones", Barry Kosmin 5. Secular America: Atheists, agnostics, and the religiously unaffiliated, Phil Zuckerman and Jacques Berlinerblau III. PART TWO: HILONIYUT: CURRENT LEGAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES 6. A self-restrained secularism? Halakhah and Sharia in contemporary Israel, Denis Charbit 7. The ´status quo´: Old and new frontlines between hilonim and anti-hiloni forces in Israel?, Ilan Greilsammer 8. Israeli religious secularism, Anita Shapira IV. PART THREE: LAICITE IN A CULTURAL FRANCE 9. Post-war French Jewry facing la‹cité in a multicultural France, Régine Azria 10. La‹cité and freedom of conscience in pluricultural France, Jean Baubérot 11. La‹cité as a background of emancipation, Henri Pena-Ruiz V. PART FOUR: WOMEN AND SECULARISM: PROBLEMS AND POSSIBILITIES 12. Freedom of choice: Women and demography in Israel, France, and the United States, Ariela Keysar 13. In the eyes of patriarchal religion, all women are secular: What can we learn from this?, Susan Thistlethwaite 14. Religious divorce and civil divorce for Jewish and Muslim women in Canada: A comparative approach, Pascale Fournier VI. CONCLUSION: THE SECULAR PROSPECT, Sarah Fainberg and Aurora Nou

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Régine Azria, École des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS), France Jean Baubérot, École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), France Denis Charbit, Open University of Israel Caroline Mala Corbin, University of Miami School of Law, USA John Fea, Messiah College, USA Pascale Fournier, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, Canada Ilan Greilsammer, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Ariela Keysar, Trinity College, USA Barry Kosmin, Trinity College, USA Henri Pe¤a-Ruiz, Institut d´études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), France Anita Shapira, Tel Aviv University, Israel Susan Thistlethwaite, Chicago Theological Seminary, USA Phil Zuckerman, Pitzer College, USA

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