ABSTRACT
The UK forms of state-religion relationships reflect cognate arrangements throughout Europe descended from former modes of state confessional preference that developed in the wake of the Protestant Reformation. Traditionally, these arrangements have been seen as falling into three dominant types: state church, separation and cooperation systems. In his review of European systems, however, Norman Doe has challenged whether the implied distinctions are sustainable:
The studies in this book suggest that beneath the level of constitutional law such distinctions cannot easily be made. At this level, the dominant model of the States of Europe is that of cooperation between the States and religion.2
