Journal of Church and State articles from June 2002

Journal of Church and State archives from June 2002

Destruction and desecration of sacred sites during wars and conflicts: a neglected travesty.(Editorial)
June 22, 2002... In April 2002, about 250 Palestinian civilians, policemen, gunmen, and some foreign activists, in order to escape expected Israeli army attacks against them, took refuge inside the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, a city of about thirty...

Congregations and civil society: a double-edged connection.
June 22, 2002... Among the oft-noticed features of what scholarly observers sometimes tout as "American exceptionalism"--what distinguishes the U.S. from other advanced industrialized nations--two items perennially appear at the top of the list. One is the...

From religious outsiders to insiders: the rise and fall of pacifism in the Churches of Christ.
June 22, 2002... The Churches of Christ are exemplary religious insiders in the United States. (1) Their 1,600,000 members and adherents concentrated mostly in the upper South, sponsor several colleges and claim best-selling Christian author and Texas preacher...

Beyond self-interest: the political theory and practice of evangelical women in antebellum America.
June 22, 2002... Prior to the publication of Gerda Lerner's study of the Grimke sisters in 19137, academic historians and students of political theory largely ignored antebellum women. Since that time many fine books and articles have been published about them....

The other radio priest: James Gillis's opposition to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's foreign policy.
June 22, 2002... The newly invented electronic media of radio gave Father Charles Coughlin a "pulpit" that catapulted him into national prominence beginning in October 1926. A Canadian native ordained in the Order of' St. Basil in 1916, Coughlin immigrated to...

Naturalism and neutrality: trying miraculous claims fairly in English courts.
June 22, 2002... The government advocate's argument to the jury was brief.... He drew their attention to the extraordinary nature of these occurrences, [which] on the one hand are true, as being proved by unexceptionable witnesses, and on the other are very...

If not now, when? The case for religious liberty in the state of Israel.
June 22, 2002... With a people so steeped in religious history and a homeland that lies at the crossroads of the world's greatest religions, Israel cannot escape the importance of religious faith in its political and national life. While its own Declaration of...

Church and State in Tanzania: Aspects of a Changing Relationship, 1961-1994.
June 22, 2002... By Frieder Ludwig. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 1999. 285 pp. $98.00. In this careful study of the role of the churches in the political transformation of Tanzania, Munich historian Frieder Ludwig shows how both the Protestant...

Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Movements.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... By Richard T. Antoun. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, 2001. 181 pp. np. The author is professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Binghamton and does not fail to point out throughout the book that he spent time...

Pagan City and Christian Capital: Rome in the Fourth Century.
June 22, 2002... By John Curran. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 389 pp. $85.00. The city of Rome between the reigns of Constantine the Great and Theodosius I was the setting for dramatic changes. This period of the fourth century A.D. saw the...

The Holy Blood: King Henry III and the Westminster Blood Relic.
June 22, 2002... By Nicholas Vincent. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 254 pp. np. On 13 October 1247, King Henry III of England proceeded barefoot and dressed in a simple cloak from St. Paul's Cathedral to Westminster. In his own hands...

Huguenots and Camisards as Aliens in France: 1589-1789, The Struggle for Religious Toleration.
June 22, 2002... By Brian E. Strayer. Lewiston, N.Y., Edward Mellen Press, 2001. iv + 616 pp. np. Based on extensive exploration of primary and secondary sources, this work represents an impressive synthesis of the history of relations between the French...

Freedom of Religion Under the European Convention on Human Rights.
June 22, 2002... By Carolyn Evans. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 222 pp. $65.00. Carolyn Evans, now a senior fellow at the Faculty of Law, Melbourne University, has written what is perhaps the first book-length treatment of the way that the...

Introducing the World Council of Churches.
June 22, 2002... By Marlin VanElderen & Martin Conway, Geneva: WCC Publications, Risk Book Series No. 96, 2001. 198 pp. np. Even though the World Council of Churches (WCC) was organized in 1948 and can, therefore, look back at an impressive history of...

Religion and Public Life in Canada: Historical and Comparative Perspectives.
June 22, 2002... Edited by Marguerite Van Die. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. xvi + 385 pp. $50.00 cloth; $24.95 paper. "When religion fails to integrate... one's life experience, it should hardly be surprising that... people find it...

The Papacy: An Encyclopedia, 3 vols.
June 22, 2002... 3 vols. Edited by Philippe Levillain. New York: Routledge, 2002. xxix + 1780 pp. $395.00. The papacy is among the most fascinating of all religious institutions. Its influence on Western religious life for nearly two millenia is...

The Hauerwas Reader.
June 22, 2002... Edited by John Berkman and Michael Cartwright. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001. 730 pp. $74.95 cloth, $27.95 paper. The Hauerwas Reader has the opposite effect of most readers--it does not make one feel compelled to read more...

Nursing Fathers: American Colonists' Conception of English Protestant Kingship, 1688-1776.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... By Benjamin Lewis Price. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 1999. 256 pp. $70.00. Despite the troubles between Britain and her North American colonies, it seems that it took most rebelling colonists almost a year or more after April 1775 to...

The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance.
June 22, 2002... By Arthur Versluis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 234 pp. np. Arthur Versluis argues that Western esotericism--a wide range of spiritual currents that included alchemy, Hermeticism, Kabbala, Rosicrucianism, and Christian...

Beloved Strangers: Interfaith Families in Nineteenth Century America.
June 22, 2002... By Anne C. Rose. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. 288 pp. $39.95. In 1828, Henry Ruffner, a Presbyterian minister and professor at Washington College in Lexington, Virginia, published "Judith Bensaddi," a short story about...

Farewell to Christendom: The Future of Church and State in America.
June 22, 2002... By Thomas J. Curry. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 143 pp. np. Thomas Curry begins his slender volume with the best of intentions, announcing his determination to resolve, finally, the persistent mystery of the First Amendment's...

The Lustre of Our Country: The American Experience of Religious Freedom.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... By John T. Noonan, Jr. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1998. 436 pages. $35.00. Occasionally, a book emerges that combines intellectual credibility with popular wit and common sense, particularly in a way that leaves the...

Religion and the Demise of Liberal Rationalism: The Foundational Crisis of the Separation of Church and State.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... By J. Judd Owen. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 218 pp. $16.00. This book consists of a critical analysis of three major contemporary philosophers who have much to say on the relationship between politics and religion:...

Religion, Politics, and the American Experience: Reflections on Religion and American Public Life.
June 22, 2002... Edited by Edith L. Blumhofer. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: The University of Alabama Press, 2002. 147 pp. np. Presupposed by the aptly introduced and carefully written essays of this volume is a fundamental American reality: the institutional...

Sacred Places, Civic Purposes: Should Government Help Faith-Based Charity?
June 22, 2002... Edited by E.J. Dionne Jr. and Ming Hsu Chen. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2001. 272 pp. $20.95. This book plunges into the controversy surrounding President Bush's faith-based initiatives with a distinctive purpose: "to...

Learning Lessons from Waco: When the Parties Bring Their Gods to the Negotiation Table.
June 22, 2002... By Jayne Seminare Docherty. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2001. 351 pp. np. In this book Jayne Docherty seeks to understand why the 1993 FBI-Branch Davidian negotiations failed and led to tragedy. Her objective is to help...

Text of U.S. Supreme Court decision: Zelman, superintendent of Public Instruction of Ohio, et al. v. Simmons-Harris et al. (Features).
June 22, 2002... No. 00-1751 536 U.S.--(2002) Argued February 20, 2002 Decided June 27, 2002 Ohio's Pilot Project Scholarship Program gives educational choices to families in any Ohio school district that is under state control pursuant to a...