Contents -- Preface -- Notes on Contributers -- John Gascoigne and Hilary M. Carey: Introduction:The rise and fall of Christendom -- PART I: OLD WORLDS -- Jared van Duinen: The ironies of English Erastianism: Puritanism and the outbreak of the English Civil Wars -- David Garrioch: The Protestant problem and church-state relations in Old Regime France -- John A. Moses: Church and state in post-Reformation Germany, 1530-1914 -- Stewart J. Brown: The broad church movement, national culture, and the established Churches of Great Britain, c.1850-c.1900 -- PART II: IMPERIAL STATES -- David Cahill: The crisis of ecclesiastical privilege in Spain and Spanish America: The question of insurgent clergy, 1780-1820 -- Hilary M. Carey: Gladstone, the colonial Church, and imperial state -- Rowan Strong: The Church of England and the British imperial state: Anglican metropolitan sermons of the 1850s -- PART III: NEW WORLDS -- Frank Lambert: Debating the US church-state boundary, then and now: Virginia as a case study -- John Stenhouse: Church and state in New Zealand, 1835-1870: Religion, politics, and race -- John Murphy: Church and state in the history of Australian welfare -- Bruce Kaye: From Anglican gaol to religious pluralism: Re-casting Anglican views of church and state in Australia -- Select Bibliography -- Index.