Journal of Church and State articles from June 2005

Journal of Church and State archives from June 2005

America's "forsaken roots": the use and abuse of founders' quotations.
June 22, 2005... I. INTRODUCTION The Christian Right, frustrated by its inability to change American culture through political means over the last three decades, continues to engage in multiple strategies to recapture the supposedly vanishing "Christian...

"I am an atheist and a Muslim": Islam, communism, and ideological competition.
June 22, 2005... A thousand years of tyranny are better than one night of anarchy. --al-Mawardi INTRODUCTION When do religious and political ideologies come into conflict? Political and religious systems of belief are closely tied throughout history,...

Peace, pastors, and politics: tactics of resistance in East Germany.
June 22, 2005... Over a decade after reunification, East German history remains a highly politicized and contested terrain, not least concerning the political role of the Protestant church. Did the church play an oppositional, democratizing role, contributing...

Elizabethan Catholics and Romans 13: a chapter in the history of political polemic.(doctrine of obedience)
June 22, 2005... The two fundamental political principles of the early Reformation were that all secular authority was derived from God, and that, because of this, armed rebellion against leaders was wrong. Accordingly, a commonly-cited passage in political...

Russian Orthodox Christians and their orientation toward church and state.
June 22, 2005... As the Soviet Union began to experiment with policies of liberalization under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev, the church was one of the first social institutions to benefit from the Kremlin's new policies. By 1988, Gorbachev had agreed to...

God on stage? Religious themes in public educational theatre.
June 22, 2005... In January 2004, Covington High in New Orleans endured a censorship controversy. The drama teacher proposed that one of the school dramas for the coming year be the 1971 off-Broadway musical, Godspell, a story inspired by the teachings of Jesus...

Alternative viewpoints about biological origins as taught in public schools.
June 22, 2005... I. INTRODUCTION The teaching of biological origins Fin public schools is an increasingly controversial issue in American education and the courts. The U.S. Supreme Court has declared that proper treatment of origins education is vital to...

The Great Divide: The Failure of Islam and the Triumph of the West.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Great Divide: The Failure of Islam and the Triumph of the West. By Alvin J. Schmidt. Boston, Mass.: Regina Orthodox Press, 2004. 332pp. $19.95. This book is a polemic against Islam and an apologia for Christianity. It is comprised of...

"Sicques, Tigers or Thieves": Eyewitness Accounts of the Sikhs, 1606-1809.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... "Sicques, Tigers or Thieves": Eyewitness Accounts of the Sikhs (1606-1809). Edited by Amandeep Singh Madra and Parmjit Singh. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 391 pp. $27.95 paper. This title is from East India Company man George...

Consuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Consuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine. By Suzanne K. Kaufman. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2005. 255 pp. $34.95. During a visit to France in the early 1980s, I accompanied my aunt and uncle on their pilgrimage...

Jehovah's Witnesses and the Third Reich: Sectarian Politics Under Persecution.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Jehovah's Witnesses and The Third Reich. Sectarian Politics under Persecution. By M. James Penton. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004, xxii+412 pp. $75.00 cloth, $35.00 paper. Of the many controversies that surround the Watchtower...

"Conservative Revolutionaries": Protestant and Catholic Churches in Germany After Radical Political Change.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... "Conservative Revolutionaries": Protestant and Catholic Churches in Germany after Radical Political Change. Monographs in German History, Vol. 14. By Barbara Theriault. New York: Berghahn, 2004. vii+188 pp. $50.00. Thanks to a series of...

The Costa Rican Catholic Church, Social Justice, and the Rights of Workers: 1979-1996.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Costa Rican Catholic Church, Social Justice, and the Rights of Workers, 1979-1996. By Dana Sawchuk. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004.270 pp. $49.50. Over the past two decades, liberation theology has become a...

The Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson: Puritans Divided.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson: Puritans Divided. By Michael P. Winship. Lawrence, Kans.: The University Press of Kansas, 2005. 168 pp. $14.95. It has been said that if the church is not in conflict with some outside antagonist,...

Methodism: Empire of the Spirit.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Methodism: Empire of the Spirit. By David Hempton. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. 320 pp. $30.00. In Methodism: Empire of the Spirit, distinguished historian David Hempton follows recent interest in the growth of world...

The Formation of the Primitive Baptist Movement.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Formation of the Primitive Baptist Movement. By Jeffrey Wayne Taylor. Kitchener, Ontario: Pandora Press, 2004, 225 pp. np. "Hard shell," "foot-washing," or more ominously, "hyper-Calvinistic" is what they have been called dismissively....

Hope's Promise: Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Hope's Promise: Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry. By S. Scott Rohrer. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: The University of Alabama Press, 2005. 304 pp. $42.50. Growing up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, this reviewer lived just a...

Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War Through the Civil Rights Era.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era. By Paul Harvey. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005. 354 pp. $34.95. In Freedom's Coming, Paul...

Long March Ahead: African American Churches and Public Policy in Post-Civil Rights America.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Long March Ahead: African American Churches and Public Policy in Post-Civil Bights America. Edited by R. Drew Smith. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. 239 pp. $29.95. The involvement of black churches in public affairs and public...

America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia. By Seth Jacobs. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. 381 pp. $22.95. The Vietnam War has been the subject of thousands of books...

Religion and Public Life in the Southern Crossroads: Showdown States.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Religion and Public Life in the Southern Crossroads: Showdown States. Religion by Region Series. Edited by William Lindsey and Mark Silk. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, 2005. np. This very helpful little book is the fifth number in a...

One Nation Under Law: America's Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... One Nation Under Law: America's Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State. By Mark Douglas McGarvie. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004. 256 pp. $38.00. This unique and valuable study reminds all of us of the...

Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment: Essential Rights and Liberties.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment: Essential Rights and Liberties, 2nd ed. By John Witte Jr. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2005. 322 pp. $29.00 paper. Thomas Jefferson, architect of the wall of separation between church...

Philosophy of the United States: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Philosophy of the United States: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. By Gordon L. Anderson. St. Paul, Minn.: Paragon House Publishers, 2004. 320 pp. $19.95 paper. This is a theoretical book in which Gordon Anderson explores the...

The New Religious Movements Experience in America.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The New Religious Movements Experience in America. By Eugene V. Gallagher. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2004, 297 pp. $55.00. This is an erudite and well-written book, designed to serve as a text for courses in new religious movements...

Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Religious and Secular Perspectives.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Religious and Secular Perspectives. Edited by Sohail H. Hashmi and Steven P. Lee. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiii+533 pp. $85.00. Eschatological black humor infects this book which in...

An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion and American Empire.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion & American Empire. By Michael Northcott. London: I. B. Taurus & Co., 2004. 206 pp. $35.00. Americans have been so full of anger and fear and so intent on revenge since the 9/11 terrorist...

Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide. By Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xv+329 pp. n.p. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, philosophers and emerging social scientists...

Democracy and Religion: Free Exercise and Diverse Visions.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Democracy and Religion: Free Exercise and Diverse Visions. Edited by David Odell-Scott. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 2004. 384 pp. np. Usually edited works--especially those based on conference papers--have two or three...

A Church Drawing Near: Spirituality and Mission in a Post-Christian Culture.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... A Church Drawing Near: Spirituality and Mission in a Post-Christian Culture. By Paul Avis. London: T & T Clark International, 2003.29.7 pp. np. The oft-quoted refrain that the cultural landscape in the West has changed is prescient. Much...

Encyclopedia of Religious Freedom.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Encyclopedia of Religious Freedom. Edited by Catharine Cookson, general editor. With Satvinder Singh Juss and Derek H. Davis, associate editors. New York: Routledge, 2003.555 pp. $125.00. Reference works play an important part in offering...