Journal of Church and State articles from January 2001

Journal of Church and State archives from January 2001

Separation, integration, and accommodation: religion and state in America in a nutshell.
January 1, 2001... The interplay between religion and state in the United States is complex, if anything. The rules that comprise the American system of church-state relations--rules dictated mostly by judicial interpretations of the First Amendment's religion...

Law, religion, and the metaphysics of abortion: a reply to Simmons.(response to Paul D. Simmons, Journal of Church and State, vol. 42, p. 69, Wnt 2000))
January 1, 2001... In his essay, "Religious Liberty and Abortion Policy: Casey as `Catch-22',"(1) Paul D. Simmons argues that the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions on abortion have resulted in a dilemma for the pregnant woman. On the one hand, the Court seems to be...

Jehovah's Witnesses' request for recognition as a corporation under public law in Germany: background, current status, and empirical aspects.
January 1, 2001... BACKGROUND: THE SITUATION OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES IN GERMANY, 1919-1989 Early in 1924, the German Reich's Minister of the Interior said to his Prussian colleague: "Surveillance of the activity of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society also...

"This will someday be the head and not the tail of the church": a history of the Mormon Fundamentalists at Short Creek.
January 1, 2001... In a 1974 sermon, Leroy S. Johnson, whom many Fundamentalist Mormons revered as a modern day prophet, recounted a story he heard as a young man. The great Mormon prophet-colonizer Brigham Young was returning in a buggy from Pipe Springs, a...

Four Guys and a Fax Machine? Diasporas, New Information Technologies, and the Internationalization of Religion in Egypt.
January 1, 2001... Generally, coverage of political culture in the Middle East has been characterized by--and criticized for--its insistence upon the singular importance and salience of Islam as a religious factor. Orientalist treatments have been rightly...

Interpretations of Jewish tradition on democracy, land, and peace.
January 1, 2001... The relationship between democratic institutions and practices, on the one hand, and policy on issues related to war and peace, on the other, is one of the most intensely debated topics in international relations. Under the framework of...

Destabilizing the Middle East: U.S. policy toward Palestine, 1943-1949.
January 1, 2001... Abundant literature on U.S. policy toward Palestine acknowledges the overriding influence of domestic support for a Jewish state. President Harry S. Truman's electoral concerns as well as outrage over the Holocaust naturally affected his...

Augustine Through the Ages: An Encyclopedia.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Augustine through the Ages: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Allan D. Fitzgerald, O.S.A. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdman's Publishing Company, 1999. 902 pp. $75.00. Augustine of Hippo (A.D. 354-430) is by almost everyone's estimation one of the...

Unprecedented Choices: Religious Ethics at the Frontiers of Genetic Science.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Unprecedented Choices: Religious Ethics at the Frontiers of Genetic Science. By Audrey R. Chapman. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 1999. 256 pp. np. Audrey R. Chapman is the director of the Program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and...

Surviving Diversity: Religion and Democratic Citizenship.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Surviving Diversity: Religion and Democratic Citizenship. By Jeff Spinner-Halev. Baltimore, Md.: John Hopkins University Press, 2000. 246 pp. np. This book evolved from Spinner-Halev's work as a visiting fellow at Princeton's Center for...

The Secular Mind.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Secular Mind. By Robert Coles. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. 189 pp. np. Robert Coles offers us his perspective on the evolution of "the secular mind," by which he basically means human consciousness, in the...

Why I Am Not a Secularist.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Why I Am Not a Secularist. By William E. Connolly. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. 211 pp. $29.95 cloth. Secularism, that shifting, somewhat unsettled yet heretofore reasonably efficacious organization of public...

The Vatican and the Red Flag: The Struggle for the Soul of Eastern Europe.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Vatican and the Red Flag: The Struggle for the Soul of Eastern Europe. By Jonathan Luxmoore and Jolanta Babiuch. London and New York: Geoffrey Chapman, 2000. 351 pp. np. This book views the history of communism as it evolved against the...

Kosovo: Contending Voices on Balkan Interventions.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Kosovo: Contending Voices on Balkan Interventions. Edited by William Joseph Buckley. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2000. 528 pp. $30.00 cloth. This excellent compendium of essays and articles dealing with the...

English Society: 1660-1832.
January 1, 2001... English Society 1660-1832. By J.C.D. Clark. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 580 pp. $74.95 cloth, $27.95 paper. This is a revised, updated, and expanded version of a book Clark originally published in 1985. The author intended...

John Charles McQuaid: Ruler of Catholic Ireland.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... John Charles McQuaid. Ruler of Catholic Ireland. By John Cooney. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2000. 526 pp. $34.95 cloth. Imagine the "moral majority" in power. Even grant a democratic society. Observe how they elect...

What's God Got to Do with the American Experiment?(Review)
January 1, 2001... What's God Got to Do with the American Experiment? Edited by E.J. Dionne, Jr. and John J. Dilulio, Jr. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2000. 188 pp. $16.95. Dionne and Dilulio have given us an informative and positive, if...

The American Leadership Tradition: The Inevitable Impact of a Leader's Faith on a Nation's Destiny.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The American Leadership Tradition: The Inevitable Impact of a Leader's Faith on a Nation's Destiny. By Marvin Olasky. Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2000. 295 pp. np. Marvin Olasky, professor of journalism at the University of Texas and...

Education, Religion, and the Common Good: Advancing a Distinctly American Conversation About Religion's Role in Our Shared Life.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Education, Religion, and the Common Good: Advancing a Distinctly American Conversation About Religion's Role in Our Shared Life. By Martin E. Marty with Jonathan Moore. San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass, 2000. 164 pp. h.p. This book draws...

The Newer Deal: Social Work and Religion in Partnership.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Newer Deal--Social Work and Religion in Partnership. By Ram A. Cnaan, with Robert Wineburg and Stephanie C. Boddie. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 368 pp. $49.50 cloth. $22.50 paper. This is a timely book that should be of...

The Politics of School Choice.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Politics of School Choice. By Hubert Morken and Jo Renee Formicola. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999. 335 pp. np. Morken and Formicola have &me the field of political science a great service in providing the first...

A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth Century Connecticut.(Review)
January 1, 2001... A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth Century Connecticut. By Christopher Grasso. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. 528 pp. $24.95 paper, $59.95 cloth. Christopher Grasso's A...

Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Contribution to Original Intent.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Contributions to Original Intent. By Derek H. Davis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 309 pp. $39.95. "No provision of the Constitution," Justice Wiley Rutledge opined in Everson v....

Religion in Nineteenth Century America.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Religion in Nineteenth Century America (Religion in American Life Series). By Grant Wacker. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 182 pp. $22.00 Religion in Nineteenth Century America, by Grant Wacker, an associate professor of the...

Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America. By Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 216 pp. $42.00 cloth, $16.00 paper. The Exodus story has played a key role in the...

The Religious World of Antislavery Women: Spirituality in the Lives of Five Abolitionist Lecturers.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Religious World of Antislavery Women: Spirituality in the Lives of Five Abolitionist Lecturers. By Anna M. Speicher. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2000. 242 pp. $39.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. Anna Speicher begins her study of...

The New Agrarian Mind: The Movement Towards Decentralist Thought in Twentieth Century America.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The New Agrarian Mind: The Movement Towards Decentralist Thought in Twentieth Century America. By Allan Carlson. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2000. 224 pp., index, n.p. In this important work on conservative agrarian thought...

Prayers in the Precincts: The Christian Right in the 1998 Election.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Prayers in the Precincts: The Christian Right in the 1998 Elections. Edited by John C. Green, Mark J. Rozell, and Clyde Wilcox. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2000. 312 pp. n.p. Over the past two decades, the Christian Right...

Close Encounters with the Religious Right: Journeys into the Twilight Zone of Religion and Politics.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Close Encounters with the Religious Right: Journeys into the Twilight Zone of Religion and Politics. By Robert Boston. New York: Prometheus Books, 2000. 274 pp. np. This book is a chronicle of Robert Boston's travels among various...

The Globalization of Pentecostalism: A Religion Made to Travel.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Globalization of Pentecostalism: A Religion Made to Travel. Edited by Murray W. Dempster, Byron D. Klaus, and Douglas Petersen. Irvine, Calif.: Regnum Books International, 1999. $24.95 paper. Twenty-two contributors including biblical...