This challenging collection of essays offers a refreshing approach to the troubling-and timely-subject of religion and public policy in American, and the ways in which issues of church and state affect our national identity.

Edith Blumhofer is Director of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals at Wheaton College in Illinois and former Associate Director of the Public Religion Project. Martin Marty is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago, and former Director of the Public Religion Project.