Journal of Church and State articles from June 2000

Journal of Church and State archives from June 2000

Completing the constitution: enforcement of the religion clauses against the states under the Fourteenth Amendment.
June 22, 2000... Suppose the Alabama legislature, responding to the will of the majority, decided to make Christianity the official religion of the state. Suppose the Texas legislature voted to deny to Texans the right to criticize the government. What if...

Religious pluralism in post-colonial public life.
June 22, 2000... "The Time has come that we say enough and no more, and by acting to banish the shame, remake ourselves as the midwives of the African Renaissance." Thabo Mbeki(1) A widespread public concern with social values and personal virtues is...

Late and never: Ronald Reagan and tuition tax credits.
June 22, 2000... In October 1976, Democratic Party presidential candidate Jimmy Carter assured the Chief Administrators of Catholic Education that he was "firmly committed to conducting a systematic and continuing search for constitutionally acceptable methods...

And The last shall be first: the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the former East Germany.
June 22, 2000... The SED (Socialist Unity Party of Germany-Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands) continually avoided pursuing a policy aimed at abolition or complete privatization of churches. Instead it endeavored, without fundamentally questioning the...

Finding the roots of religious liberty in the "Asian tradition".
June 22, 2000... More than two millennia before Thomas Jefferson argued against the establishment of any form of religion in the United States on the grounds that "truth can stand by itself" (Notes on Virginia), the Chinese philosopher Kung-fu-tzu, or...

The 1984 covenant between the Republic of Italy and the Vatican: A retrospective analysis after fifteen years.
June 22, 2000... On 18 February 1984, the Republic of Italy and the Vatican signed the Revised Agreement of the 1929 Lateran Covenant.(1) This entered into effect in the Italian legislation on 25 March 1985 (Law No. 121) after ratification by the House of...

The institutionalization of benevolence in the eighteenth-century social welfare state: the great charity debate in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa.
June 22, 2000... The concept of charity for most people living today in common law countries is firmly tied to the structure of the modern welfare state. Governments encourage charitable donations from the public to help sustain programs strained by declining...

Palestine in the Time of Jesus.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Palestine in the Time of Jesus. By K.C. Hanson and Douglas E. Oakman. Minneapolis, Minn.: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1998. 234 pp. $21.00. This is a distinctive volume dealing with Palestine at the time of Jesus. It takes neither a...

Essentials of Neo-Confucianism: Eight Major Philosophers of the Song and Ming Periods.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Essentials of Neo-Confucianism: Eight Major Philosophers of the Song and Ming Periods. By Siu-chi Huang. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing, 1999. 280 pp. $85.00. Because of the rising prominence of Asia in world events, it is essential...

Religious Toleration: "The Variety of Rites" from Cyrus to Defoe.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Religious Toleration: "The Variety of Rites" From Cyrus to Defoe. Edited by John Christian Laursen. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. 252 pp. n.p. The editor opens this collection of essays by remarking, "Whether we like it or not,...

Wholeness of Faith and Life: Orthodox Christian Ethics.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Wholeness of Faith and Life: Orthodox Christian Ethics, vols. 1-3. By Stanley S. Harakas. Brookline, Mass.: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1999. 449 pp. $38.85. This three-volume work by the eminent Orthodox ethicist is a collection of essays...

Modernity Without Constraint: The Political Religions, The New Science of Politics, and Science, Politics, and Gnosticism.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Modernity Without Constraint: The Political Religions, The New Science of Politics, and Science, Politics, and Gnosticism. By Eric Voegelin. Edited by Manfred Henningsen. Vol. 5 of The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, series editor, Ellis...

The Cambridge Companion to Dietrich Bonhoeffer.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Cambridge Companion to Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Edited by John W. de Gruchy. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 281 pp. $54.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. As part of the growing Cambridge Companions to Religion series, this text...

The Idea of Human Rights: Four Inquiries.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Idea of Human Rights.. Four Inquiries. By Michael Perry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 162 pp. n.p. What are the origins, definitions, and parameters of human rights? To provide a firm foundation for the right enumerated in...

Religion and the English People: 1500-1640, New Voices and Perspectives.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Religion and the English People, 1500-1640: New Voices and Perspectives. (Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies, Volume 45). Edited by Eric Josef Carlson. Kirksville, Mo.: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1908. 301 pp. $40.00. Eight...

Poor Relief and Protestantism: The Evolution of Social Welfare in Sixteenth-Century Emden.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Poor Relief and Protestantism: The Evolution of Social Welfare in Sixteenth-Century Emden. By Timothy G. Fehler. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 1999. 332 pp. $86.95. Set on the German-Dutch border where the Ems River empties into the North Sea,...

Zeugen Jehovas in der DDR. Verfolgung und Verhalten einer religiosen Minderheit.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Zeugen Jehovas in der DDR. Verfolgung und Verhalten einer religiosen Minderheit (Jehovah's Witnesses in the GDR. Persecution and Response of a Religious Minority). By Gerald Hacke. Series "Berichte und Studien," nr. 24. Dresden:...

Kosovo-Serbia: A Just War?(Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Kosovo-Serbia: A Just War? Edited by Frank Columbus. Commack, N.Y.: Kroshka/Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 1999. 275 pages. $18.95 paper. The answer of many of the contributors to the question posed in the title is a resounding No! More...

Western Atheism: A Short History.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Western Atheism: A Short History. By James Trower. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2000. 157 pp. $14.99. This survey of Western atheism--from the collapse of the mythological worldview initiated by the pre-Socratic philosophers of Ancient...

Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty. By R. Andrew Chesnut. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1997. 203 pp. $50.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. In the last half of the twentieth century, Pentecostal...

Islam in America.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Islam in America. By Jane I. Smith. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 251 pp. $35.00. America is now a Judeo-Christian-Muslim nation. Jane Smith, prominent scholar of Islam and Muslim-Christian relations, presents a highly...

Church and State in America.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Church and State in America. By Edwin S. Gaustad. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 157 pp. $22.00. The arrival of a new book by Edwin Gaustad, one of the nation's most respected scholars of American religious history, is always a...

The Constitution & Religion: Leading Supreme Court Cases on Church and State.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Constitution & Religion: Leading Supreme Court Cases on Church and State. Edited by Robert S. Alley. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1999. 545 pp. $74.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. This is a straightforward collection of major Supreme Court...

Over the Wall: Protecting Religious Expression in the Public Square.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Over the Wall: Protecting Religious Expression in the Public Square. By Frank Guliuzza, III. New York: State University of New York Press, 2000. 219 pp. $20.95. Frank Guliuzza is intent on breaking down the proverbial "wall of separation"...

Christian Perspective on Politics.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Christian Perspective on Politics. By J. Philip Wogaman. Revised and expanded edition. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000. 384 pp. $24.95 paper. I am always a bit leery of any title that describes itself solely as a...

Perfectionist Politics: Abolitionism and the Religious Tensions of American Democracy.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Perfectionist Politics: Abolitionism and the Religious Tensions of American Democracy. By Douglas M. Strong. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1999. np. The political aspects of religious abolitionism are examined by Douglas M....

Local Baptists, Local Politics: Churches and Communities in the Middle and Uplands South.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Local Baptists, Local Politics: Churches and Communities in the Middle and Uplands South. By Clifford A. Grammich, Jr. Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. 264 pp. $30.00. In recent years conservative, evangelical, and...

Social Protest Thought in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Social Protest Thought in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Edited by Stephen W. Angell and Anthony B. Pinn. Knoxville, Tenn.: The University of Tennessee Press, 2000. 357 pp. $22.50. The pivotal significance of African Methodism in...

Washington and Rome: Catholicism and American Culture.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Washington and Rome: Catholicism and American Culture. By Michael Zoller. Translated by Steven Rendall and Albert Wimmer. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999. 278 pp. $35.00. Zoller, chair of political sociology and...

What's Left? Liberal American Catholics.(Review)
June 22, 2000... What's Left? Liberal American Catholics. Edited by Mary Jo Weaver. Bloomington and Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1999. 294 pp. $39.95 cloth; $17.95 paper. The essays in this book, contributed mostly by theologians and...

The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education. By D.G. Hart. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 321 pp. $38.00 cloth. This can be a puzzling book. Hart argues that religion, as a...

Jim Bakker: Miscarriage of Justice?(Review)
June 22, 2000... Jim Bakker: Miscarriage of Justice? By James A. Albert. Chicago, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Co., 1998. 532 pp. np. Jim Bakker's 1989 conviction on twenty-four counts of broadcast fraud, mail fraud, and conspiracy was viewed widely as the...

Swaggart: The Unauthorized Biography of an American Evangelist.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Swaggart: The Unauthorized Biography of an American Evangelist. By Ann Rowe Seaman. New York: Continuum, 1999. 432 pp. $27.50. It is hard to write a biography of a living person when the subject will not speak to the writer. Even before his...

Notes on Church-State Affairs.
June 22, 2000... ANGOLA According to sources with the Angolan Council of Christians, rebels of the National Union for Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) led by Jonas Savimbi stoned and crucified six Baptist Christians in Beu, Uige Province. UNITA claimed...

TEXT OF U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISION: Guy Mitchell, et al., Petitioners v. Mary L. Helms et al. No. 98-1648.
June 22, 2000... Decided 28 June 2000 JUSTICE THOMAS, joined by THE CHIEF JUSTICE, JUSTICE SCALIA, and JUSTICE KENNEDY, concluded that Chapter 2, as applied in Jefferson Parish, is not a law respecting an establishment of religion simply because many of...

RECENT DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS IN CHURCH AND STATE.
June 22, 2000... EDUCATION Lee, Lucy Virginia, Ph.D. "Student Political Cynicism: Origins, Influences, And Implications." University of California/Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 1999. 216pp. Levine, David Paul, Ph.D. "Citizenship Schools." The...

BOOKS RECEIVED.
June 22, 2000... Ahdar, Rex and John Stenhouse, eds. God and Government: The New Zealand Experience. Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago Press, 2000. 146pp. $39.95 paper. Angell, Stephen W. and Anthony B. Pinn, eds. Social Protest Thought in the...