Journal of Church and State articles from January 2004

Journal of Church and State archives from January 2004

Under God but not the scarf: the founding myths of religious freedom in the United States and laicite in France.
January 1, 2004... In March 2004, the French parliament adopted a law that prohibits public school students from wearing clothing and insignia that "conspicuously manifest a religious affiliation." The law was approved by an overwhelming vote of 494-36 in the...

Is it Davey's locker for the no-funding principle?
January 1, 2004... A decade ago, when I taught cases involving tax exemptions for churches and financial aid to parochial schools, I put forward this hypothetical case: a national administration, persuaded by Robert Putnam's familiar thesis that civic virtue...

The relevance of John Locke to social change in the Muslim world: a comparison with Iran.
January 1, 2004... Speaking at a symposium on political change and democracy in the Muslim world, Richard Bulliet, an eminent historian at Columbia University, offered the following note of caution: Notions like human rights, equality and civil liberties did...

The politics of appointments to protestant theological faculties in Germany: the case of professor Erich Geldbach.
January 1, 2004... The persistence of religious establishments in the contemporary world leads to some curious church-state issues. "Curious" would accurately describe the situation in the Federal Republic of Germany, whose constitution (the Grundgesetz or Basic...

John Wesley, the establishment of religion and the separation of church and state.
January 1, 2004... The subject of this essay is the relationship between government and the churches, as John Wesley understood it. This is a topic which has received little attention. The separation of the early Methodists from the Church of England, a process...

Which approach? Late twentieth-century interpretations of Augustine's views on war.
January 1, 2004... Is another recounting of Augustine's views on war really worth the effort? His writings on the subject, a minor theme in the Augustinian corpus, are already well known. One could claim that late twentieth-century interpretations merely...

The incontrovertible ontological fact of God: Newdow, state education, and the status of God.
January 1, 2004... THE SHIFT: POLITICS REPLACES METAPHYSICS It was a founding presupposition of this republic that God exists, that God had and would continue to hold in contingency the entirety of reality, and would continue to function as the source of the...

Liberation Theology in the Philippines: Faith in a Revolution.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Liberation Theology in the Philippines: Faith in a Revolution (Religion in the Age of Transformation Series) by Kathleen M. Nadeau. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2002. 129 pp. $59.00. Liberation theology is a venerable topic among...

Christian Women in Indonesia: A Narrative Study of Gender and Religion.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Christian Women In Indonesia: A Narrative Study of Gender and Religion. By Frances S. Adeney. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2003. 226 pp. $24.95 paper. Frances S. Adeney's book is interesting and informative. Having lived in...

Religion and Social Crisis in Japan: Understanding Japanese Society Through the Aum Affair.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Religion and Social Crisis in Japan: Understanding Japanese Society through the Aura Affair. Edited by Robert J. Kisala. New York: St. Marin's Press, 2001. 227 pp. $68.00. This is indeed a very timely and much needed book in helping us...

The Future of Political Islam.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Future of Political Islam. By Graham Fuller. New York: Palgrave. 2003. 272 pp. $29.95. Through his career as both a CIA intelligence analyst and a Middle East scholar, Graham Fuller provides an insightful and comprehensive analysis of...

Who Are the Christians in the Middle East?(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Who Are the Christians in the Middle East? By Betty Jane Bailey & J. Martin Bailey. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdman's, 2003. 215 pp. $20.00. Certainly, some able treatments of this subject--Christians of (not merely in) the Middle East--have...

Jewish Ethics for the Twenty-First Century: Living in the Image of God.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Jewish Ethics for the Twenty-First Century: Living in the Image of God. By Rabbi Byron L. Sherwin. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2000. 203 pp. n.p. Rabbi Byron Sherwin offers us a unique and intriguing perspective investigating...

First Crusader: Byzantium's Holy Wars.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... First Crusader: Byzantium's Holy Wars. By Geoffrey Regan. New York: Palgrave Division, 2003. 304 pp. $29.95. The role of medieval Jerusalem as a Holy City makes a compelling narrative. With the conversion of the Roman Emperor Constantine in...

Roger II of Sicily: A Ruler between East and West.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Roger II of Sicily: A Ruler between East and West. By Hubert Houben. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 231 pp. n.p. Roger II of Sicily is well known as the founder of the Norman kingdom of Sicily in the twelfth century....

European Christian Democracy: Historical Legacies and Comparative Perspectives.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... European Christian Democracy: Historical Legacies and Comparative Perspectives. Edited by Thomas Kselman and Joseph A. Buttigieg. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. 352 pp. $40.00 cloth, $18.00 paper. For those...

Rethinking Church, State, and Modernity: Canada Between Europe and America.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Rethinking Church, State, and Modernity: Canada between Europe and America. Edited by David Lyon and Marguerite van Die. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2000. 353 pp. $55.00 cloth; $24.95 paper. However useful church, state, and...

Contemplatives in Action: The Jesuit Way.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Contemplatives in Action: The Jesuit Way. By William A. Barry, S.J. and Robert G. Doherty, S.J. New York: Paulist Press, 2002. 84 pp. $11.95. This book begins with the story of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus....

Marginalization.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Marginalization. By John Atherton. London: SCM Press, 2003. xiii+210 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling] paper. The diocese of Manchester, England, is a place where the extremes of economic development exist in close proximity to some of the most...

Christian Missions and the Enlightenment.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Christian Missions and the Enlightenment. Edited by Brian Stanley. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2001. 257 pp. $45.00. Here is a book that at first glance, appears to have little to do with church-state relations. However,...

Doomsayers: Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Doomsayers: Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution. By Susan Juster. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 288 pp. $39.95. What should we make of the fact that in the Age of Revolution--the supposed heyday of...

The Devil and Doctor Dwight: Satire and Theology in the Early American Republic.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Devil & Doctor Dwight: Satire & Theology in the Early American Republic. By Colin Wells. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 254 pp. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. The Devil & Doctor Dwight is unusual in its...

The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America. By Frank Lambert. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. 328 pp. $29.95. Frank Lambert's previous books include Inventing the Great Awakening and Pillar of Divinity:...

Rediscovering America's Sacred Ground: Public Religion and Pursuit of the Good in a Pluralistic America.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Rediscovering America's Sacred Ground: Public Religion and Pursuit of the Good in a Pluralistic America. By Barbara A. McGraw. New York: State University of New York Press, 2003. xviii+241 pp. n.p. Few topics are as complex and...

To Defend the Constitution: Religion, Conscientious Objection, Naturalization, and the Supreme Court.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... To Defend the Constitution: Religion, Conscientious Objection, Naturalization and the Supreme Court. By Ronald B. Flowers. Lanham, Md.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2003. 519 pp. n.p. With clear-eyed understanding of church-state history and...

Religious Liberty in America: Political Safeguards.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Religious Liberty in America: Political Safeguards. By Louis Fisher. Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2002. xii+380 pp. $35.00 cloth. A myth is an unfounded notion, or so says Webster. Fisher believes it an unfounded notion...

The Yoder Case: Religious Freedom, Education, and Parental Rights.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Yoder Case: Religious Freedom, Education, and Parental Rights. By Shawn Francis Peters. Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2003. 216 pp. $29.95 cloth, $14.95 paper. Shawn Francis Peters, with his award-winning Judging...

Religion and Civil Society: Rethinking Public Religion in the Contemporary World.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Religion and Civil Society: Rethinking Public Religion in the Contemporary World. By David Herbert. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2003. 329 pp. $89.95 cloth, $29.95 paper. In a single volume, David Herbert constructs a model...

Cults, Religion, and Violence.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... CULTS, Religion and Violence. Edited by David G. Bromley and J. Gordon Melton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 249 pp., $22.00 paper. This is a very useful book both for stimulating discussion among students enrolled in courses...

Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe. Edited by James E. Bradley and Dale K. Van Kley. Notre Dame, Ind.: Notre Dame University Press, 2001. 409 pp. $54.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Ten years ago the title of this book would be more of...

Catholics in America.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... James T. Fisher. Catholics in America. Religion in American Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. As part of the Religion in American Life series, edited by Jon Butler and Harry Stout, Catholics in America is a welcome addition to...

Free Thoughts on Religion, the Church and National Happiness.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Bernard Mandeville. Free Thoughts on Religion, The Church & National Happiness. Irwin Primer, ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 2001. Mandeville (1670-1733), through his The Fable of the Bees, is best known as a satirist and incisive...

Sacred Energies: When the World's Religions Sit down to Talk About the Future of Human Life and the Plight of This Planet.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Daniel C. Maguire. Sacred Energies: When the World's Religions Sit Down to Talk about the Future of Human Life and the Plight of This Planet. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2000. Written by Marquette University ethicist Daniel Maguire, this...

Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Mark Juergensmeyer. Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Violence has been a facet of religious worldviews and expressions from time immemorial. Juergensmeyer,...

The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence and Reconciliation.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... R. Scott Appleby. The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence and Reconciliation. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. This volume joins a growing chorus of religious theorists who argue that awareness of religion, in both...

The Day After: A Retrospective on Religious Dissent in the Presidential Crisis.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Gabriel Fackre. The Day After: A Retrospective on Religious Dissent in the Presidential Crisis. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdman's, 2000. During the political crisis and resulting impeachment proceedings of President William J. Clinton, Gabriel...

Church, State and Propaganda: The Archbishop of York and International Relations, A Political Study of Cyril Forster Garbett, 1942-1955.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Dianne Kirby. Church, State and Propaganda: The Archbishop of York and International Relations, A Political Study of Cyril Forster Garbett 1942-1955. Hull: The University of Hull Press, 1999. This interesting study of ecclesial engagement...

Faith and Law: Juridical Perspectives for the Ecumenical Movement.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Marc Reuver. Faith and Law: Juridical Perspectives for the Ecumenical Movement. Geneva: World Council of Churches, 2000. Most ecumenical conversations between church bodies and denominations involve often mutually exclusive but sometimes...

The Politics of Religion in an Age of Revival: Studies in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Austen Ivereigh. The Politics of Religion in an Age of Revival: Studies in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America. Nineteenth-Century Latin America Series. London: University of London, Institute of Latin American Studies, 2000. >From...

The Scepter Shall Not Depart from Judah: Perspectives on the Persistence of the Political in Judaism.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Alan L. Mittleman. The Scepter Shall Not Depart from Judah: Perspectives on the Persistence of the Political in Judaism. Religion, Politics and Society in the New Millennium. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington, 2000. Drawing its title from the...

Revolution and Renewal: How Churches Are Saving Our Cities.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Tony Campolo. Revolution and Renewal: How Churches Are Saving Our Cities. Louisville, Ken.: Westminster John Knox, 2000. Perhaps the greatest observer of American politics, Alexis de Tocqueville, long ago noted that the greatest potential...

Hitting the Lottery Jackpot: Government and the Taxing of Dreams.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... David Nibert. Hitting the Lottery Jackpot: Government and the Taxing of Dreams. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000. Sociologist David Nibert here turns his attention to a critique of growing state reliance on gaming to generate public...