This months symposium at Cato-Unbound is on religion and politics.  The lead essay, by Mark Lilla, is entitled Coping with Political Theology.  This is the blurb about it:

Drawing on themes of his new book The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West Columbia Universitys Mark Lilla attempts to explain why America, the most religious nation in the modern West, can neither understand nor cope with the religious passions dominating contemporary world politics. Lilla lays out how the Great Separation in Western political thought, which set aside political theology as the basis for conceiving of the legitimacy of the political order, together with the exceptional American experience of religious toleration, has made it difficult for Americans to grasp how uneasily Western ideals of democracy and toleration fit within frameworks of thought that still put God at the center of politics.

There are responses by Damon Linker, Philip Jenkins and one coming from Andrew Sullivan.

The symposium can be found here.

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