Journal of Church and State articles from January 2003

Journal of Church and State archives from January 2003

Thomas Jefferson and the "wall of separation" metaphor.(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... Increasingly the separation of church and state in America is maligned and belittled. Many commentators, authors, and political figures advance the theory that the separation doctrine is a myth, that there never have been any limitations on the...

The September 11 tragedy and the Muslim world: living with memory and myth.
January 1, 2003... The September 11 attacks on the United States have resurrected old fears, created new myths, and constructed enduring images and memories. These terrorist attacks also demonstrate that September 11 trauma was not simply a transient story, but...

Religion at the statehouse: the California Catholic Conference.
January 1, 2003... While a great surge in interest in politics and religion in the United States occurred at the national level over the last ten years, extensive activity has gone on largely unnoticed at the state level. Systematic studies of politics and...

Lessons for today? The church-state relationship in twentieth-century Christian ecumenical thought.
January 1, 2003... Offering school vouchers to disadvantaged families, providing faith-based organizations with federal funding to administer vital social programs, employing the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance are among the important issues of the...

Turban or hat, seminarian or soldier: state building and clergy building in Reza Shah's Iran.
January 1, 2003... "It is precisely in a secular state--which is supposed to be totally separated from religion--that it is essential for state law to define, again and again, what genuine religion is, and where its boundaries should properly be." Talal Asad...

John A. Ryan, Virgil Michel, and the problem of clerical politics.
January 1, 2003... Debate about the proper role of clergy in the wielding of temporal power has been characteristic of Christianity since its early centuries. It was the medieval popes, after all, that Lord Acton had in mind when he penned his famous dictum,...

The Jesus Sutras: Rediscovering the Lost Scrolls of Taoist Christianity.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Martin Palmer, in association with Eva Wong, Tjalling Halbertsma, Zhao Xiao Min, Li Rong Rong, and James Palmer. New York: Ballantine Books, 2001. 304 pp. $24.95. The appearance of the first Christians in China was not marked by Jesuit...

Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... By Ahmed Rashid. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002. 281 pp. $24.00. Jihad describes in a personalized, journalistic style the rise of radical Islam in the five former Soviet Central Asian republics (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,...

Proclaiming Political Pluralism: Churches and Political Transitions in Africa.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Isaac Phiri. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2001. 169 pp. np. Proclaiming Political Pluralism, written by Isaac Phiri, deals with the role of churches in the transition to plural politics in three southern African countries in the 1990s....

Alterations of State: Sacred Kingship in the English Reformation.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Richard C. McCoy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. 218 pp. $29.50. Standing before the block, Charles I observed that kings and subjects are "two plain different things." In Alterations of State, Richard McCoy studies some of...

Worlds Colliding: Conservative Christians and the Law.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Rex Ahdar. A1dershot: Ashgate Dartmouth, 2001. np. The title of this book might suggest some sort of intergalactic collision. Instead, it is a study of the worldview of some Christians and the contrast with an increasingly secular and...

Evangelical Futures: A Conversation on Theological Method.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Edited by John G. Stackhouse, Jr. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books; Leicester, England: Inter-Varsity Press; Vancouver: Regent College Publishing, 2000. 207 pp. + indexes. $16.99. John G. Stackhouse, Jr., professor of theology at Regent...

The Ordination of Women in the Catholic Church: Unmasking a Cuckoo's Egg Tradition.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By John Wijngaards. New York: Continuum, 2001. 182 pp. np. For almost thirty years, John Wijngaards has been a vocal advocate of the ordination of women as Catholic priests. An experienced missionary, agile theologian, and sound expositor...

Liberalism and Crime: The British Experience.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Robert R. Sullivan. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2000. xiii + 225 pp. np. In 1996, Robert R. Sullivan, professor of political science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, spent the fall semester at Bramshill, the national police...

From Civil to Political Religion: The Intersection of Culture, Religion and Politics.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Marcela Cristi. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2001, 293 pp. $32.95. In From Civil to Political Religion, Marcela Cristi provides a cogent critique of the American literature on civil religion. Robert N....

Protestantism in America.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Randall Balmer and Lauren F. Winner. New York: Columbia University, Press, 2002. 295 pp. $35.00. In Protestantism in America, Balmer and Winner examine the many faces of Protestantism and the ways it has remained, at least until...

Serving Two Masters: The Development of American Military Chaplaincy, 1860-1920.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Richard M. Budd. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. 191 pp. $45.00. The title of Richard Budd's history of the U.S. military chaplaincy's organizational development plays upon the words of Jesus in Matthew 6:24, "No man...

The Old Religion in a New World: The History of North American Christianity.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Mark A. Noll. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2002. 340 pp. $24.00. As is true of many of Mark A. Noll's fine books, The Old Religion in a New World is designed for the general reader and the secondary school and college classroom. Like...

The Book of Jerry Falwell.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Susan Friend Harding. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. 336 pp. $26.95. This book achieves two often mutually exclusive goals. First, it offers a very interesting and highly readable biography of Jerry Falwell. Second,...

The Influence of Faith: Religious Groups and U.S. Foreign Policy.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Edited by Elliott Abrams. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001. x + 237 pp. $24.95 paper. This useful collection begins with Leo P. Ribuffo's history of religious influence on U.S. foreign policy. This collection introduces a...

The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Boundaries of Law, Politics, and Religion.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Lewis V. Baldwin, with Rufus Burrow, Jr., Barbara A. Holmes, and Susan Holmes Winfield. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002. xx + 316 pp. $24.95 paper; $42.95 cloth. This book consists of six essays, each describing an...

Academic Freedom and Christian Scholarship.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Anthony J. Diekema. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2000. 214 pp. $22.00. Academic freedom is a difficult term to define, but for those looking for a working definition, this book by Anthony J. Diekema is a good place to...

For a "Christian America": A History of the Religious Right.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Ruth Murray Brown. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2002. 309 pp. $28.00. Drawing on primary documents from Christian Right organizations, as well as interviews and surveys from a random sampling of activists in Oklahoma performed first...

Clergy Malpractice in America: Nally v. Grace Community Church of the Valley.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Mark A. Weitz. Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2001. 232 pp. np. Rarely a week goes by without a news report about a lawsuit charging clergy misconduct. Frequently, the suits allege sexual misconduct by priests or pastors,...

Religions in Asian America: Building Faith Communities.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Edited by Pyong Gap Min and Jung Ha Kim. Walnut Creek, Calif.: Altamira Press, 2002. 275 pp. $24.95. Religions in Asian America: Building Faith Communities consists of a collection of essays that investigate the interrelationships between...

Feminist Theologies for a Postmodern Church: Diversity, Community, and Scripture.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2002. 252 pp. np. Shepherd's book comes as a welcome contribution to contemporary theological discussions on the challenges that diversity and marginalization present...

Skeptical Philosophy for Everyone.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Richard H. Popkin and Avrum Stroll. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2002. 342 pp. np. Philosophical writing frequently produces what rhetoricians speak of as "a high fog index"; it is frequently unreadable by those who are not...