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... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > ideologies > libertarianism > libertarianism and policy > separation of church and state
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separation of church and state  

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  • The separation of church and state is an aspect of the general separation that political philosophers have argued should exist between the state and private life. Although the state has generally retreated from religion in the modern West, controversy endures on a variety of church-state issues: By no means have all European state churches been disestablished, entanglements between church and state may endure even without a formally constituted state church, and many non-Western states both openly support state religions and impose high barriers against disfavored groups. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism; Separation of Church and State]

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