Journal of Church and State articles from June 2004

Journal of Church and State archives from June 2004

God and the pursuit of America's self-understanding: toward a synthesis of American historiography.
June 22, 2004... Recently, while answering questions following a presentation I had given on the subject of the religious dimensions of the American polity, someone stood and made the comment: "No explanation of American history makes any sense unless God is at...

The Vatican, the American bishops, and the church-state ramifications of clerical sexual abuse.
June 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION Pope John Paul II has termed clerical sexual abuse (1) as both a grave sin and a crime. (2) Speaking as the spiritual leader of the world's one billion Catholics, the pope believes that priests who are guilty of the sin of...

The context of natural law: John Calvin's doctrine of the two Kingdoms.
June 22, 2004... Scholars continue to produce a great deal of literature on John Calvin's social thought. His views on legal, political, and economic issues still intrigue those interested in how Calvin used the medieval tradition that he inherited, where he...

Managing religion in colonial India: the British Raj and the Bodh Gaya temple dispute.
June 22, 2004... THE MAHABODHI TEMPLE Deep in the heart of the lawless and poverty-stricken Indian state of Bihar, what promises to be one of the twenty-first century's grandest cultural enterprises is taking shape. At Bodh Gaya, about a hundred kilometers...

Religious education in the Spanish school system.
June 22, 2004... 1. INTRODUCTION The debate regarding teaching religious values in the educational setting has always been highly complex. In Spain, however, when politicians push for legislation on religion as a subject in public schools, the social...

Official religious representation in a democratic legislature: lessons from the Manx Tynwald.
June 22, 2004... I. INTRODUCTION A number of national legislatures include an element of official religious representation, with seats in the legislature set aside for religious officers. In Andorra, the Bishop of Urgell is "in personal and exclusive...

Prelates, protest, and public opinion: Catholic opposition to desegregation, 1947-1955.
June 22, 2004... The decision had been made, a plan of action decided upon, news of the impending change was scant and, when learned, resulted in the development of a grassroots protest organization. Parents, especially mothers, were the first to express their...

Islam: A Mosaic, Not a Monolith.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Islam: A Mosaic, Not A Monolith. By Vartan Gregorian. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2003. xi+ 164 pp. np. As a summary report to the trustees of Carnegie Corporation, this book was intended to provide a general background...

The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror. By Bernard Lewis. New York: The Modern Library, 2003. 184 pp. $19.95. With American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the war on terror, the "Road Map" to peace in Israel, the investigation of...

Turkish Islam and the Secular State: The Gulen Movement.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Turkish Islam and the Secular State: The Gulen Movement. Edited by M. Hakan Yavuz and John L. Esposito. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2003. 280 pp. $59.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. In this volume, twelve contributors examine...

Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding. Edited by David R. Smock. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace, 2002. 150 pp. $14.95. While discussions of interreligious dialogue most often arise from religious professionals and...

Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn From Myths. By Mary Lefkowitz. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003.304 pp. $30.00. Like many people, I have long been puzzled by the religion of the ancient Greeks. How could any...

Church and State: The Nigerian Experience.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Church and State: The Nigerian Experience. By John Chidi Nwafor. Frankfurt am Main: IKO, 2002.436 pp. np. The Roman Catholic Church was the first church established in Nigeria and continues to be the largest single denomination in the...

Christianity in the Second Century: The Case of Tatian.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Christianity in the Second Century: The Case of Tatian. By Emily J. Hunt. New York: Routledge: Early Church Monographs, 2003. np. In her revised Birmingham dissertation, Emily J. Hunt reexamines the role played by Tatian during the...

Jerome.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Jerome. By Stefan Rebenich. New York: Routledge: The Early Church Fathers, 2002. np. In his most recent contribution to the study of late antique Christianity, Stefan Rebenich analyzes the distinguished yet controversial career of Jerome....

Religion and Nation in Modern Ukraine.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Religion and Nation in Modern Ukraine. By Serhii Plokhy and Frank Sysyn. Edmonton/Toronto, Canada: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2003. 216 pp. $39.95. The historical role of the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches in...

Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult. By Peter Levenda. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003. 423 pp. $22.95. Peter Levenda offers readers a thorough yet popular history of the occult...

A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation. By Eric Weitz. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. 360pp. $29.95. Historian Eric Weitz traces themes of utopianism, racism, and nationalism through four genocidal regimes....

Human Nature and the Freedom of Public Religious Expression.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Human Nature and the Freedom of Public Religious Expression. By Stephen G. Post. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. 208 pp. $36.00 cloth, $18.00 paper. The thesis of Stephen Post's book-length essay is admirably clear...

New Religious Movements in the 21st Century: Legal, Political, and Social Challenges in Global Perspective.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... New Religious Movements in the 21st Century: Legal, Political, and Social Challenges in Global Perspective. Edited by Philip Charles Lucas and Thomas Robbins. New York: Routledge, 2004. ix+364 pp. $29.95. Until recently, the study of new...

Touchdown Jesus: The Mixing of Sacred and Secular in America History.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Touchdown Jesus: The Mixing of Sacred and Secular in America History. By R. Laurence Moore. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2003. 195 pp. $19.95. R. Laurence Moore has written a delightful, enlightening, and provocative...

The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution: For Cause of Conscience, Discussed in a Conference Between Truth and Peace.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, for Cause of Conscience, discussed in a conference between Truth and Peace, by Roger Williams. Edited by Richard Groves. Introduced by Edwin Gaustad. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2001. 283 pages....

Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South. By Gregory A. Wills. New York: Oxford University Press, Press,1997, 195 pp. Professor of church history and director of the Center for the Study of the...

Mark Twain's Religion.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Mark Twain's Religion. By William E. Phipps. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2003. 386 pages. $45.00 cloth, $18.00 paper. In his book Mark Twain's Religion, William E. Phipps convinces the reader that he has done his homework. In an...

The Christian Right in American Politics: Marching to the Millennium.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Christian Right in American Politics: Marching to the Millennium. Edited by John C. Green, Mark J. Rozell, and Clyde Wilcox. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2003. 304pp. $44.96 cloth, $24.95 paper. This discussion of the...

God and Ronald Reagan: A Spiritual Life.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... God and Ronald Reagan: A Spiritual Life. By Paul Kengor. New York: ReganBooks, 2004. 402 pp. $26.95. Characterizations of the Roman Emperor Constantine have varied widely, with some labeling him a political opportunist in the way he used...

The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature. By Tarif Khalidi. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. While the person of Jesus has never been foreign to Islam, Tarif Khalidi's remarkable compilation of Islamic...

Who Are We? Critical Reflections and Hopeful Possibilities.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Who Are We? Critical Reflections and Hopeful Possibilities. By Jean Bethke Elshtain. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2000. University of Chicago professor Jean Bethke Elshtain has established herself as one of today's foremost public...

Cultivating Citizens: Soulcraft and Citizenship in Contemporary America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Cultivating Citizens: Soulcraft and Citizenship in Contemporary America. Edited by Dwight D. Allman and Michael D. Beaty. Lanham, Md.: Lexington, 2002. The authors of this volume discuss the status of civic vitality in the United States...

Religion and Humane Global Governance.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Religion and Humane Global Governance. By Richard Falk. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Richard Falk, professor of International Law and Practice at Princeton, argues that the failure of modern society to establish what he terms "humane global...

Toward a Global Civilization? The Contribution of Religions.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Toward a Global Civilization? The Contribution of Religions. By Patricia M. Mische and Melissa Merkling. New York: Peter Lang, 2001. The position articulated by Richard Falk in Religion and Humane Global Governance is expanded in this...

Tolerance and Intolerance: Social Conflict in the Age of the Crusades.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Tolerance and Intolerance: Social Conflict in the Age of the Crusades. By Michael Gervers and James M. Powell. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2001. While acknowledging the great differences between Latin and American...

Whose Promised Land? The Continuing Crisis over Israel and Palestine, 2d ed.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Whose Promised Land? The Continuing Crisis over Israel and Palestine. 2nd ed. By Colin Chapman. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker, 2002. The conflict between the state of Israel and stateless Palestinians has been called one of the great...

Writing the Wrongs: Women of the Old Testament Among Biblical Commentators from Philo Through the Reformation.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Writing the Wrongs: Women of the Old Testament among Biblical Commentators from Philo through the Reformation. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. By John L. Thompson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. A crucial component of the...

Life Abundant: Rethinking Theology and Economy for a Planet in Peril.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Life Abundant: Rethinking Theology and Economy for a Planet in Peril. By Sallie McFague. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress, 2001. Long recognized as a central voice in American Christian feminist theology, Sallie McFague's work has focused on...

The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth Century America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America. By Sarah Barringer Gordon. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. The decades-long campaign to criminalize Mormon polygamy...

"O Sisters Ain't You Happy?": Gender, Family, and Community Among the Harvard and Shirley Shakers, 1781-1918.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... "O Sisters Ain't You Happy?" Gender, Family, and Community Among the Harvard and Shirley Shakers, 1781-1918. By Suzanne R. Thurman. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002. Suzanne R. Thurman, professor of history at the University of...

Islam, Europe's Second Religion: The New Social, Cultural, and Political Landscape.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Islam, Europe's Second Religion: The New Social, Cultural, and Political Landscape. Edited by Shireen T. Hunter. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2002. The recent controversy in France surrounding the public display of beards and head-coverings...

Islamic Britain: Religion, Politics and Identity Among British Muslims.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Islamic Britain: Religion, Politics and Identity among British Muslims, new ed. By Philip Lewis. London: I.B. Tauris, 2002. Originally published in 1994 immediately after the conflagration surrounding the publication of Salman Rushdie's The...