Journal of Church and State articles from January 2005

Journal of Church and State archives from January 2005

After Arafat: mapping a Jewish/Palestinian solidarity.
January 1, 2005... Arafat is dead. It is a striking thought. After so many years, with so many landmarks, detours, about faces, hope, despair, violence, and hints of peace, the political landscape of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict changes. This, at...

Catholics and the ConCon: the church's response to the Massachusetts gay marriage decision.
January 1, 2005... The Catholic Church has long been a powerful presence in Massachusetts politics. The November 2003 Supreme Judicial Court decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, in which the Court by a 4-3 majority recognized the right of same...

"I had a different way of governing": the living faith of President Carter.
January 1, 2005... "I had a different way of governing... I was a Southerner, a born-again Christian, a Baptist, a newcomer."--Jimmy Carter The norm for presidents has been to privatize their faith. While many have been regular churchgoers, affirmed some...

Between anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism, Pius XI's response to the Nazi persecution of the Jews: precursor to Pius XII's "silence"?
January 1, 2005... The appearance of Rolf Hochhuth's "Deputy" in 1963, which focused on the "silence" of Pope Plus XII (Eugenio Pacelli) during the Holocaust, has led some to ponder the responsibility of his predecessor Plus XI (Achille Ratti) in shaping this...

The double bind of the Protestant reformation: the birth of fundamentalism and the necessity of pluralism.
January 1, 2005... When Martin Luther used the printing press to help realize his vision of individual access to the biblical texts, he did so at the expense of the unity of belief made possible by the Catholic Church. Luther relocated truth from the authority of...

The state and the Islamic movement in Jordan.
January 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION This study explores the conditions necessary for the political gains and losses of Jordan's Islamic movement. The Islamic movement's participation in Jordan's political life and the close ties it kept with the Hashemite royal...

School and religion in Spain.
January 1, 2005... A. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT 1. Religion in the Spanish Constitution The current legal and political framework of religion in Spain was designed by the Spanish Constitution and enacted on 27 December 1978 (three years after General...

Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross-Cultural Communication Since 1500.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross-Cultural Communication since 1500. Edited by Robert Eric Frykenberg. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2003. 419 pp. $39.00. Treating Christianity as a global religion rather than as...

Converting Women--Gender and Protestant Christianity in Colonial South India.( )
January 1, 2005... Converting Women--Gender and Protestant Christianity in Colonial South India. By Eliza F. Kent. New York: Oxford University Press, 315 pp. $47.64. In an era of sharpened religious animosities between the Hindu right and Christian...

Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity. By Nancy Pearcey. Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2004. 479 pp. np. For years Nancy Pearcey has been writing books with and for other Christian thinkers. Now that she is...

Has Science Found God?(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Has Science Found God? By Victor J. Stenger. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2003. 373 pp. np. This book does not represent a thoughtful contribution to the flourishing dialogue between science and theology. Rather, as one might have...

Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context. By Glen H. Stassen and David Gushee. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2003. 491 pp. np. When I found out that Kingdom Ethics was about Jesus' sermon on the mount from three...

Old Testament Ethics for the People of God.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Old Testament Ethics for the People of God. By Christopher J. H. Wright. Downer's Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press, 2004, 528 pp. $30.00. Prior to this work, Christopher J. H. Wright published An Eye for An Eye: The Place of Old Testament...

Boundaries: A Casebook in Environmental Ethics.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Boundaries: A Casebook in Environmental Ethics. By Christine E. Gurdorf and James E. Hutchingson. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2003. 250 pp. $26.95. Gurdolf and Hutchinson, both of whom are professors of religious studies...

Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care and Patient Choice.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Physician-Assisted Dying: The Choice for Palliative Care and Patient Choice. Edited by Timothy E. Quill, M.D. and Margaret P. Battin, Ph.D. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 342 pp. $26.95. This volume is a...

Being Reconciled: Ontology and Pardon.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Being Reconciled: Ontology and Pardon. By John Milbank. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. xiii+242 pp. np. paper. This book follows on John Milbank's previous works, Theology and Social Theory and The Word Made Strange, as well as...

The Destructive Power of Religion: Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, 4 vols.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Destructive Power of Religion: Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Four volumes. Edited by J. Harold Ellens. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2004. np. The twentieth century was plagued by an unprecedented degree of...

Social Theory and Religion.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Social Theory and Religion. By James A. Beckford. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 252 pp. $22.00 paper. Beckford reviews the vast sociological literature on secularization, religious pluralism, globalization, and new...

Handbook of the Sociology of Religion.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Handbook of the Sociology of Religion. Edited by Michele Dillon. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 481 pp. $90.00 cloth; $29.99 paper. As the title implies, this volume could be useful for students and scholars with interest in...

The Encyclopedia of Protestantism, 4 vols.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Encyclopedia of Protestantism. Four volumes. Edited by Hans J. Hillerbrand. New York: Routledge, 2004. np. This is a massive work of four volumes, comprising more than two thousand pages, with more than five hundred contributors, and...

Explaining the English Revolution: Hobbes and His Contemporaries.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Explaining the English Revolution: Hobbes and His Contemporaries. By Mark Stephen Jendrysik. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2002. 198 pp. $65.00. As the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, John Milton, Oliver Cromwell, Robert Filmer, and...

The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638.( )(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638. By Theodore Dwight Bozeman. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 349 pp. $49.95. Blown by the Spirit: Puritanism and the...

Jonathan Edwards: A Life.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Jonathan Edwards: A Life. By George M. Marsden. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003. 615 pp. $35.00. George Marsden's study of Jonathan Edwards is a magnificent one. While admittedly sympathetic to Edwards's Augustinian and...

Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives: Free Will Christian Women in Colonial Maryland.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives: Free Will Christian Women in Colonial Maryland. By Debra A. Meyers. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2003. 264 pp. $39.95. Historians have long seen Maryland as exceptional in...

Catholicism and American Freedom: A History.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Catholicism and American Freedom: A History. By John T. McGreevy. New York: Norton, 2003. 431pp. $26.95. The title of John McGreevy's book understates the scope of its intellectual engagement. Although focused on how Catholic leaders have...

Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Witnessing & Testifying, Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights. By Rosetta E. Ross. Minneapolis, Minn.: Augsburg Fortress Press, 2003. 296 pp. $23.00 paper. In Witnessing & Testifying, Rosetta E. Ross presents a powerful, moving portrait...

God and Ronald Reagan: A Spiritual Life.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... God and Ronald Reagan: A Spiritual Life. By Paul Kengor. New York: Regan Books (an imprint of HarperCollins), 2004. 402pp. $26.95. Hand of Providence: The Strong and Quiet Faith of Ronald Reagan. By Mary Beth Brown. Nashville, Tenn.: WND...

The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, vol. 1, Odyssey of the Religion Clauses.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, Volume I: Odyssey of the Religion Clauses. By James Hitchcock. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. np. The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, Volume II From "Higher...