Norman Doe’s Proposed Typology of Church-State Interaction and Its Applicability to Comparative Constitutional Law Research

Abstract

This article examines the types of church-state interaction and their main features found in Lithuanian and foreign legal literature and highlights the three-tier typology of church-state interaction as formulated by Norman Doe, revealing the constitutional problems of its applicability and assigning specific theoretical types to individual states.

Keywords

• Church
• State
• Types of interaction between church and state
• Separation of church and state
• State Church
• Church and state cooperation