The International Center for Law and Religion Studies announces the publication, in a limited run for authors and reviewers, of the volume Religion and the Secular State / La Religion et l’État laïque: Interim Reports, prepared for and issued upon the occasion of The XVIIIth International Congress of Comparative Law, held 25 – 31 July 2010 in Washington, D.C. The 827-page volume represents the work of the General Reporters for the Congress topic Religion and the Secular State, Professor W. Cole Durham, Jr. Director of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University and Professor Javier Martínez-Torrón of the Law Faculty of Complutense University in Madrid. Reports were received from 58 reporters, representing 47 countries.

NOTE: The collection appeared in final, revised form, published by the law school of Universidad Complutense de Madrid, in July 2015.

Foreword and Table of Contents

Reports GENERAL REPORT ANDORRA ARGENTINA ARMENIA AUSTRALIA BELGIUM BRAZIL BULGARIA CANADA CHILE COLOMBIA CZECH REPUBLIC ESTONIA FINLAND FRANCE GERMANY GHANA GREECE HUNGARY INDIA  IRELAND ISRAEL ITALY JAPAN KAZAKHSTAN KOREA LATVIA MALTA MEXICO NEPAL NETHERLANDS NEW ZEALAND PERU PHILIPPINES RUSSIA SCOTLAND SERBIA SLOVAK REPUBLIC SPAIN SUDAN SWEDEN SWITZERLAND TURKEY UKRAINE UNITED KINGDOM UNITED STATES (1) UNITED STATES (2) URUGUAY Selected Bibliography

Reporters Javier Martínez-Torrón / W. Cole Durham, Jr. Santiago Bueno Salinas / Francisca Pérez-Madrid  Norberto Padilla Hranush Kharatyan Carolyn Evans Jan Velaers / Marie-Claire Foblets (in French) Evaldo Xavier Gomes (in Portuguese) Peter Petkoff Rosalie Jukier / José Woehrling (2011 revision) Ana María Celis Brunet / René Cortínez Castro S.J. / Maria Elena Pimstein Scroggie Vicente Prieto Záboj Horák Merilin Kiviorg Matti Kotiranta Blandine Chelini-Pont / Nassima Ferchiche (in French) Stefan Korioth / Ino Augsberg Kofi Quashigah Charalambos K. Papastathis Balázs Schanda Tahir Mahmood Carmen Garcimartín Natan Lerner Alessandro Ferrari / Silvio Ferrari Kyoko Kimpara Roman Podoprigora Sang Yong Kim Ringolds Balodis Andrea Bettetini Alberto Patiño Reyes   Kanak Bikram Thapa   Sophie van Bijsterveld Rex Tauati Ahdar Carlos Valderrama Adriansén Raul C. Pangalangan Elena Miroshnikova Francis Lyall Sima Avramovic Michaela Moravčíková Zoila Combalía / María Roca Giuseppe D’Angelo Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg René Pahud de Mortanges Emre Öktem / Mehmet C. Uzun Gennadiy Druzenko Anthony Bradney Catherine M.A. McCauliff Gene Shreve Carmen Asiaín Pereira