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Monsma, Stephen Vos was born on September 22, 1936 in Pella, Iowa, United States. Son of Martin and Marie Monsma.
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Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, this essential text offers a rigorous, systematic comparison of church-state relations in the United States, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, and England. As successful and stable political democracies, these five countries share a commitment to protecting the religious rights of their citizens. Yet as the book demonstrates, each has taken substantially different approaches to resolving basic church-state questions. Stephen V. Monsma and J. Christopher Soper examine the historical roots of those differences and explain how each state addresses contemporary church-state issues. The authors judge each government's success in protecting the religious rights of its citizens using a framework based on the ideal of governmental neutrality or evenhandedness toward people of all faiths and of none. Providing clarity on the little-understood, evolving relationship between church and state in the West, this book provides an invaluable comparative analysis of a topic that is increasingly a source of profound political and social conflict. Monsma and Soper conclude that the American conception of church-state separation, with its traditional emphasis on avoiding government establishment of religion, actually discriminates against religious groups by denying access to government services provided to other organizations. The authors persuasively argue that the United States can learn a great deal from other Western nations in promoting religious neutrality and the free exercise of religion.
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Putting Faith in Partnerships addresses a major conceptual change in American domestic policy, begun by Reagan and now fully realized by the Bush administration: the shift of responsibility for social services from the federal government to states and communities. In this groundbreaking study of a politically controversial topic---the debut offering in Alan Wolfe's Contemporary Political and Social Issues series---author Stephen Monsma avoids overheated rhetoric in favor of a careful, critical analysis of the hard evidence on whether public-private partnerships really work. The book is based on in-depth studies of social service programs in Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Dallas. By examining public-private partnerships between government offices and nonprofit organizations, Monsma seeks to understand how these partnerships affect the balance between government's efforts to deal with social problems and the rights of individual citizens to control their own lives. Putting Faith in Partnerships answers many previously unanswered questions in what may be the most controversial public policy debate today: about the feasibility and wisdom of government agencies forming partnerships with private organizations to provide essential public social services. Stephen V. Monsma is Professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University. He has served as director of the Office of Quality Review in Michigan's Department of Social Services and is a widely recognized expert on the role of faith-based organizations in social service programs.
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Despite Americans' traditional emphasis on the separation of church and state, both in theory and practice, few are aware of the hundreds of millions of public dollars that flow annually to religiously based nonprofit organizations. Based on a massive nation-wide survey of nearly 800 such groups, Stephen V. Monsma's important study explores the implications of this financial partnership.
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Positive Neutrality: Letting Religious Freedom Ring (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy #69) Positive Neutrality: Letting Religious Freedom Ring (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy #69) by Monsma, Stephen V ( Author ) Hardcover Dec- 1992 Hardcover Dec- 10- 1992
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Church-state relations are becoming more and more critical. Deepening controversies over church-state relations, the increasing religious pluralism of American society, and the changing makeup of the Supreme Court are forcing a rethinking of approaches to church and state in the public policy realm. Stephen Monsma offers a new approach rooted in structural pluralism as a normative way to understand church-state relations. He suggests that the government should use a principle of positive neutrality in handling church-state relations. He integrates historical, theoretical, social, and legal perspectives and writes in a lively manner for interdisciplinary audiences of students, scholars, and general readers. This study provides an historical background of church and state relations in American society and discusses the development of church-state theory and practice. The author argues that confusions today can be traced back to flaws in the disestablishment settlement of the eighteenth century, flaws which have come to light in the twentieth century. He looks at this pluralist society and the concept of positive neutrality and of religious freedom historically and theoretically and then applies his approach to current issues relating to national policy and Supreme Court decision-making.
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Monsma, Stephen Vos was born on September 22, 1936 in Pella, Iowa, United States. Son of Martin and Marie Monsma.
AB, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1958. Master of Arts, Georgetown University, District of Columbia, 1961. Doctor of Philosophy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1965.
Assistant professor State University of New York, Plattsburgh, 1964-1967. Professor Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1967-1974. Representative State Legislation, Lansing, 1974-1978.
Senator State of Michigan, 1978-1982. Director office quality review Department Social Services, 1985-1987. Professor Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, 1987—2004, professor and chair social science division, 1996-2000, Blanche E. Seaver chair in social science, 1999—2004, professor emeritus, 2004.
Research fellow Henry Institute for Study of Christianity and Politics, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, since 2004.
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Member Michigan House Republican, 1974-1978. Member, Michigan Seante, 1967-1982. Natural Resources Commission, Lansing, 1983-1985.
Board director Center Public Justice, Annapolis, Maryland, 1996-2002, Bread World, Washington, 1991-1993. Chair Board, Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance, since 2009. Member American Political Science Association, Christians in Political Science (president 1994-1996).
Married Mary Carlisle, December 19, 1964. Children: Martin S., Kristin J.