Journal of Church and State articles from January 2002

Journal of Church and State archives from January 2002

The dark side to a just war: the USA PATRIOT Act and counterterrorism's potential threat to religious freedom. (Editorial)
January 1, 2002... The horror of September 11 precipitated a spate of legislative activity rarely seen in the nation's capitol. Counterterrorism bills continue to descend upon the House and Senate floors with dizzying frequency, and their contents exhibit an...

Government relations with faith-based non-profit social agencies in Alberta.(Canada)
January 1, 2002... The push to privatize government services and generally retrench the welfare state has increased the Canadian governments' interest in a robust non-profit sector. In Alberta, as in many other provinces, governments have argued that churches and...

Jehovah's Witnesses and the Empire of the sun: a clash of faith and religion during World War II.
January 1, 2002... Following World War II, the atrocities carded out by Nazi Germany received a great deal of attention from the academic community, politicians, and the popular media. Even fifty years after the end of the war, civil lawsuits seeking restitution...

Just war, jihad, and terrorism: a comparison of Western and Islamic norms for the use of political violence.
January 1, 2002... In the wake of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, the attention of many Americans--both policymakers and ordinary citizens--has been captured by a vision of Islam that appears to be militant, reactionary, and violent. Too often this...

Federal district courts, religious speech, and the public forum: an analysis of litigation patterns and outcomes.
January 1, 2002... The Supreme Court's recent decision in Good News Club v. Milford Central School continued a two-decade trend of cases addressing the merger of two First Amendment freedoms: freedom of speech and freedom of religion. (1) In Good News, the Court...

The U.S. Catholic press on Guatemala.
January 1, 2002... In the last fifty years or so, a remarkable transformation has taken place in the attitude of the U.S. Catholic church, both towards Central America and U.S. foreign policy there. A region ignored by most American Catholics until the beginning...

Aboriginal spirituality and the legal construction of freedom of religion.
January 1, 2002... I was at my grandfather's house, and he was sitting down, getting his pipe ready early in the morning and here was Father Sialm knocking on the door. They opened the door, and he came in, and he saw my grandfather with the pipe. Father Sialm...

The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars, 1290-1329.
January 1, 2002... By Rene Weis. New York: Knopf, 2001. Pp. 399. $35.00. Catharism was one of the most enduring heresies of the Middle Ages and presented one of the greatest challenges ever mounted against the Roman church. Despite the violent suppression of...

The Repression of Evangelism in Greece: European Litigation vis-a-vis a Closed Religious Establishment.
January 1, 2002... By John Warwick Montgomery. New York: University Press of America, 2001. 248 pp. Professor Montgomery's book is divided into four chapters. The first chapter refers to the theological importance of the dissemination of Christian faith and...

Religion and National Identity: Wales and Scotland, c. 1700-2000.
January 1, 2002... Edited by Robert Pope. Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press, 2001. xii + 355 pp. n.p. The chapters that comprise Religion and National Identity were first presented at a conference in Edinburgh in 1999. Readers interested in gaining a...

Buddhism in America.
January 1, 2002... By Richard Hughes Seager. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 314 pp. n.p. The third title in the "Columbia Contemporary American Religion" series, Richard Hughes Seager's Buddhism in America, is an eminently readable and accessible...

Piety in Providence: Class Dimensions of Religious Experience in Antebellum Rhode Island.
January 1, 2002... By Mark Schantz. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000. xiii & 280 pp. $45.00. Mark Schantz's fascinating and instructive account of the class character of antebellum religion in Rhode Island relies on Edward Thompson's contention...

Excluded from Suffrage History: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Nineteenth-Century American Feminist.
January 1, 2002... By Leila R. Brammer. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. 136 pp. $58.00. There is no question that Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898) was an important leader of the woman's suffrage movement in the nineteenth century. She was involved in...

Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President.
January 1, 2002... By Allen C. Guelzo. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William R. Eerdmans Publishing company, 1999. xii + 516 pp. $29.00. Americans need to be reminded that their greatest president never used religion as the primary means to shape and justify his...

The Social Gospel Today.
January 1, 2002... Edited by Christopher H. Evans. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2001. xiv + 213 pp. n.p. After decades of relative neglect, and even dismissal, of the social gospel, the authors represented in The Social Gospel Today attempt...

Judging Jehovah's Witnesses: Religious Persecution and the Dawn of the Rights Revolution.
January 1, 2002... By Shawn Francis Peters. Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2000. 342 pp. $34.95. The role of Jehovah's Witnesses as leaders in litigation to protect religious liberty has been explored in a piecemeal, case-by-case fashion in...

Religion in the Modern American West.
January 1, 2002... By Ference Morton Szasz. Tuscon, Az.: The University of Arizona Press, 2000. 249 pp. $35.00. Szasz suggests in the preface that "a completely secular interpretation of regional history is a lie about the West." He then sets out to give...

American Evangelical Christianity: An Introduction.
January 1, 2002... By Mark A. Noll. Oxford, UK: Black-well Publishers, 2001. 288 pp. + bibliography and index. $29.95. Premier evangelical scholar Mark Noll has once again provided a helpful contribution to the ongoing conversation regarding the nature of...

Enhancing Religious Identity: Best Practices from Catholic Campuses.
January 1, 2002... Edited by John R. Wilcox and Irene H. King. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2000. 416 pp. $65.00. In Contending with Modernity: Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century (1995), Philip Gleason notes that the desires...

Regulating Religion: The Courts and the Free Exercise Clause.
January 1, 2002... By Catharine Cookson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 269 pp. $45.00. Catharine Cookson, a lawyer and a religion professor by training, is director of the Center for the Study of Religious Freedom at Virginia Wesleyan College. In...

The Covenant Connection: From Federal Theology to Modern Federalism.
January 1, 2002... Edited by Daniel J. Elazar and John Kincaid. New York: Lexington Books, 2000. 352 pp. $85.00. This anthology brings together the work of a number of well-respected scholars from various academic disciplines in order to examine how Western...

Religious Goodness and Political Rightness: Beyond the Liberal-Communitarian Debate.
January 1, 2002... By Yong Huang. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 2001. 279 pp. $28.00 paper. In Religious Goodness and Political Rightness, Yong Huang asks, "What is the proper relationship between people's religious ideas of the good and...

Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Citizenship.
January 1, 2002... By Will Kymlicka. Oxford: Oxford University, Press, 2001. 383 pp. $18.95. Becoming Free: Autonomy and Diversity in the Liberal Polity. By Emily R. Gill. Lawrence, Kans.: University of Kansas Press, 2001. 292 pp. $19.95. Over the past...

The Middle Way: Theology, Politics and Economics in the Later Thought of R.H. Preston.
January 1, 2002... Edited by R. John Elford and Ian S. Markham. London: SCM Press, 2000. xii + 302 pp. n.p. Ian Markham is at the forefront of a recent movement in British theology which seeks to recover a genuine liberalism while simultaneously correcting...

The Theology of Welfare: Protestants, Catholics, and Jews in Conversation About Welfare.
January 1, 2002... By John G. West, Jr., and Sonja E. West. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America and Discovery Institute, 2000. 206 pp. n.p. Introduce the topic of welfare to any mixed group, and you will certainly elicit a variety of strongly held...

The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America.
January 1, 2002... By Mark Lewis Taylor. Louisville, Ky.: Fortress Press, 2001. xvi + 163 pp. In this provocative new book, Professor Mark Lewis Taylor engages a topic of critical importance in our time: the declining ethics of the American criminal justice...

Beyond Retribution: A New Testament Vision for Justice, Crime, and Punishment.
January 1, 2002... By Christopher Marshall. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2001. xiii + 284 pp. Christopher Marshall's book is one volume in a larger ecumenical series entitled "Studies in Peace and Scripture," a project sponsored by the Institute of...

Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Historical Cases.
January 1, 2002... By Catherine Wessinger. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2000). 403 pp. n.p. Understanding the complexities of religious conflict is as important today as ever. Since the 1970s, the United States has witnessed a dramatic increase...