Chinese Law and Religion Monitor 07-12 / 2012

Book excerpt: The 2012 Fall-Winter issue of Chinese Law and Religion Monitor contains five papers exploring the subjects of religion and law, citizenship rights, and church-state relations in China. These papers are about China's religious regulations and management of religion, Christianity's advancement of constitutional government and civil society, the influences of marginalized Mormonism on American politics, church-state relations in the Chinese tradition vis-a-vis Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism, the early British constitutional government-citizenship society, church-state relations, and classical theories of religious tolerance. Also included in this issue are official documents related to churches and Christians that were persecuted by the government.