Journal of Church and State articles from June 2003

Journal of Church and State archives from June 2003

Moments of silence in America's public schools: constitutional and ethical considerations.
June 22, 2003... In many ways the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Everson v. Board of Education (1947) set the tone for the modern debate about the merits of the separation of church and state. On the one hand, separationists celebrate the decision for...

Senator Sam Ervin and school prayer: faith, politics, and the constitution.
June 22, 2003... Senator Sam Ervin was the quintessential southern constitutionalist. Between 1954 and 1974, North Carolina's "ol' country lawyer" served as the South's leading defense attorney in the Senate, finding constitutional reasons to oppose everything...

On the advantage and disadvantage of Truth Commissions for life: dreaming an Israeli-Palestinian truth commission.
June 22, 2003... Redemption lies in remembering.--The Baal Shem Tov INTRODUCTION: A PEACE "BEYOND THE PEACE PROCESS" The current nadir to which the Israeli-Palestinian peace process has sunk raises new concerns as to the possibility of achieving a...

When you come to a fork in the road, take it?: abortion, personhood, and the jurisprudence of neutrality.(response to Stuart Rosenbaum, Journal of Church and State, vol. 43, p. 707, 2001 )
June 22, 2003... Yogi Berra is no Aristotle. But his unintentionally humorous aphorisms, recently collected by him and his family, (1) teach us something about the nature of philosophical reasoning, and jurisprudence in particular, that in some ways reveals...

The incoherence of neutrality: a case for eliminating neutrality from religion clause jurisprudence.
June 22, 2003... "Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice: That alone should encourage the crew Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true." (1) The Supreme Court has said more than thrice that...

Anti-communism, Patrick Peyton, CSC and the C.I.A.(Congregation of Holy Cross)
June 22, 2003... Church and state encounters have been part of the American landscape from the colonial period when issues such as establishment versus disestablishment of religion and freedom of worship were hotly debated on many fronts. The ratification of...

Quantifying religion: toward building more effective ways of measuring religious influence on state-level behavior.
June 22, 2003... With the beginning of the new millennium, it is becoming clear that religion, despite predictions of its demise (1) and the fact that it is commonly ignored in some academic circles, (2) continues to have a strong influence on a wide range of...

Church and State in Soviet Russia: Russian Orthodoxy from World War II to the Khrushchev Years.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Church and State in Soviet Russia: Russian Orthodoxy from World War II to the Khrushchev Years. By Tatiana A. Chumaehenko. Edited and Translated by Edward E. Roslof. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. 235 pp. $23.95. Based entirely on...

The Quest for Russia's Soul: Evangelicals and Moral Education in Post-Communist Russia.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... The Quest for Russia's Soul: Evangelicals and Moral Education in Post-Communist Russia. By Perry L. Glanzer. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2002. 234 pp. up. American Protestant missionaries will probably never again have the degree...

The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era: Theology and Art of Christ's Passion.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era: Theology and Art of Christ's Passion. By Celia Chazelle. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 338 pp. $70.00. Chazelle, known for her work on the illustrations of the Utrecht Psalter and the...

Blood and Religion: The Conscience of Henri IV.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Blood and Religion: The Conscience of Henri IV. By Ronald S. Love. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. 457 pp. $65.00. It is hardly surprising that historians of sixteenth-century Europe use the word "blood" in...

The Spiritual Franciscans: From Protest to Persecution in the Century After Saint Francis.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... The Spiritual Franciscans: From Protest to Persecution in the Century After Saint Francis. By David Burr. University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. 427 pp. $45.00. In writing this book, David Burr provides an...

Selling the Church: The English Parish in Law, Commerce, and Religion, 1350-1550.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Selling the Church: The English Parish in Law, Commerce, and Religion, 1350-1550. By Robert C. Palmer. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 300 pp. $49.95. Robert Palmer begins this book by stating that Henry...

Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation. By John Witte, Jr. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 337 pp. $65.00 cloth; $23.00 paper. John Witte's new book, Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of...

Law, Darwinism, and Public Education: The Establishment Clause and the Challenge of Intelligent Design.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Law, Darwinism, and Public Education: The Establishment Clause and the Challenge of Intelligent Design. By Francis J. Beckwith. Lanham, Md.: Bowman & Littlefield, 2003. 224 pp. $70.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. The courts have consistently ruled...

Religion and the Development of the American Penal System.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Religion and the Development of the American Penal System. By Andrew Skotnicki. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2000. 146 pp. $57.00. Histories of American penology always include some discussion of religion because they have to....

Christian Critics: Religion and the Impasse in Modern American Social Thought.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Christian Critics: Religion and the Impasse in Modern American Social Thought. By Eugene McCarraher. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001. xi + 241 pp. $28.95. This is a difficult, short, and important book. Its significance...

On the Back Road to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren & Power, Authority and the Anabaptist Tradition.
June 22, 2003... On the Back Road to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren. By Donald B. Kraybill and Carl F. Bowman. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. 330 pp. $55.00 cloth; $16.96 paper. Power, Authority and the...

Civil Society and the Search for Justice in Russia.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Civil Society and the Search for Justice in Russia. Edited by Christopher Marsh and Nikolas K. Gvosdev. Lanham. Md.: Lexington Books, 2002. 189 pp. $24.95. A key question in post-Soviet Russia's "transition" concerns the development and...

Religion, Globalization and Political Culture in the Third World.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Religion, Globalization and Political Culture in the Third World. Edited by Jeff Haynes. New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1999; xii + 259 pp. up. Religion, Globalization and Political Culture in the Third World is a contribution from eleven...

Modern Catholic Social Documents and Political Economy.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Modern Catholic Social Documents and Political Economy. By Albino Barrera. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2001. xii + 340 pp. $69.95. This book is an assemblage of a number of Vatican announcements and documents that...

Classical Liberalism & the Jewish Tradition.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Classical Liberalism & the Jewish Tradition. By Edward Alexander. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2003. xv + 173 pp. $34.95. The author of Classical Liberalism & the Jewish Tradition is professor of English at the University...

God, Locke, and Equality: Christian Foundations in Locke's Political Thought.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... God, Locke, and Equality. By Jeremy Waldron. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 263 pp. $60.00 cloth; $22.00 paper. God is back in Locke studies. After several decades dominated by two interpretations of Locke's political...

John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion. By Frank Turner. New Haven, Corm.: Yale University Press, 2002. 752 pp. $35.00. Frank Turner offers an interpretation of John Henry Newman before and during the publication of Tracts...

The Continuing Challenge of AIDS: Clergy Responses to Patients, Friends, and Families.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... The Continuing Challenge of AIDS: Clergy Responses to Patients, Friends, and Families. By Robert E. Beckley and Jerome R. Koch. Westport, Conn.: Auburn House, 2002. 232 pp. $62.95. Since the late 1980s, when HIV/AIDS began to be...