New book - essential reading on the monarchy in constitutional and religious debates

Can the Christian and Protestant monarchy of the UK and 15 other realms endure in the increasingly secular and religiously diverse societies of the twenty-first century?

The monarch has to be a Protestant and swear to reject Roman Catholicism but in Canada Catholics are now 40 per cent of the population and outnumber Protestants by almost two to one. Will this situation endure?

The monarch swears to uphold 'the True Protestant Religion and the Presbyterian form of church government in Scotland' but Muslim, Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist prayers are now heard in the monarch's Scottish Parliament.

If Scotland becomes independent it will be the 17th state with the monarch as head of state like Australia and Papua New Guinea but could it hold its own individual national coronation for a new monarch?

Can Prince Charles, as likely next monarch, be 'Defender of Faith?'

Explore these and related questions in Monarchy, religion and the state

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Publishers UK- Manchester University Press; USA - Palgrave Macmillan; Canada - University of British Columbia Press; Australia; Footprint.

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