A World Survey of Religion and the State Jonathan Fox This book delves into the extent of government involvement in religion (GIR) between 1990 and 2002 using both quantitative and qualitative methodology. The study is based on the Religion and State dataset (RAS), which includes 175 governments across the globe, all of which are addressed individually in this book. The forms of GIR examined in this study include whether the government has an official religion, whether some religions are given preferential treatment, religious discrimination against minority religion, government regulation of the majority religion, and religious legislation. The study shows that GIR is ubiquitous, that GIR increased significantly during this period, and that only a minority of states, including a minority of democracies, have separation of religion and state. These findings contradict the predictions of religion's reduced public significance found in modernization and secularization theory. The findings also demonstrate that state religious monopolies are linked to reduced religious participation. Jonathan Fox (Ph.D. in government and politics, University of Maryland, 1997) has published more than 40 articles in religion and government in publications such as Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, and Journal of Peace Research. He has also published three books: Bringing Religion into International Relations (2004) (with Shmuel Sandler); Religion, Civilization, and Civil War: 1945 Through the New Millennium (2004); and Ethnoreligious Conflict in the Late Twentieth Century: A General Theory (2002).Fox has received a grant from the Israel Science Foundation and has given guest lectures at universities around the world. He is an Associate Professor of Political Studies at Bar Ilan University, Israel.