{"id":140,"date":"2018-01-11T23:28:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T04:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pamelaklassen.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?page_id=140"},"modified":"2018-02-26T23:29:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T04:29:53","slug":"ekklesia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pamelaklassen.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/ekklesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State<\/em>, co-authored with Paul C. Johnson and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, University of Chicago Press<\/a>, spring 2018.<\/p>\n

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Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State<\/i><\/a>\u00a0offers a New World rejoinder to the largely Europe-centered academic discourse on church and state. In contrast to what is often assumed, in the Americas the relationship between church and state has not been one of freedom or separation but one of unstable and adaptable collusion.\u00a0Ekklesia\u00a0<\/i>sees in the settler states of North and South America alternative patterns of conjoined religious and political power, patterns resulting from the undertow of other gods, other peoples, and other claims to sovereignty. These local challenges have led to a continuously contested attempt to realize a church-minded state, a state-minded church, and the systems that develop in their concert. The shifting borders of their separation and the episodic conjoining of church and state took new forms in both theory and practice. My essay\u00a0argues that the colonial churchstate relationship of Canada came into being through local and national practices that emerged as Indigenous nations responded to and resisted becoming \u201cpossessions\u201d of colonial British America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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