Journal of Church and State articles from June 2008

Journal of Church and State archives from June 2008

The decline of the separation principle in the Baptist tradition of religious liberty.
June 22, 2008... With the deaths of two renowned Baptists in 2007--Herbert H. Reynolds, former president and chancellor of Baylor University and Jerry Falwell, the irrepressible evangelist and founder of Liberty University--the divergence of Baptist voices in...

Taxpayer standing and the Establishment Clause, James Madison's little known legacy.
June 22, 2008... The concept of standing, derived from Article III of the Constitution, is proclaimed to be a safeguard of the implied provision of separation oh powers. Assuming this statement is correct and standing does indeed ensure that the judiciary does...

Adapting to apartheid: the Church of Sweden Mission on the Witwatersrand in the 1950s. (South Africa)
June 22, 2008... For several decades church historians, Christian ethicists, and other scholars in South Africa and abroad have probed numerous aspects of the relationship between religious bodies and the South African government during the apartheid era, which...

Explaining new forms of evangelical activism in Northern Ireland: comparative perspectives from the USA and Canada.
June 22, 2008... In May 2007, the Rev. Ian Paisley became the First Minister of Northern Ireland, taking his position alongside Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness of Sinn Fein, who has admitted being a former member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). This...

Communism and Catholic social doctrine in the Guatemalan revolution of 1944.
June 22, 2008... Few episodes in the twentieth-century political historiography of Latin America can match the prominence earned by the successive Guatemalan governments headed by residents Juan Jose Arevalo and Jacobo Arbenz between 1945 and 1954. Once-secret...

Faith-based activism in American cities: the case of the San Francisco Catholic Action cadre.
June 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION During the 1930s and 1940s, a Catholic Action cadre centered on Archbishop John J. Mitty, involving both lay activists and diocesan priests, emerged as a dynamic participant in northern California's political culture. Catholic...

Between morality and diplomacy: the Vatican's "silence" during the holocaust.
June 22, 2008... On 12 June 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, the French Ambassador to the Holy See, Francois Charles-Roux, regretting the impartial reaction of Pius XII to the aggressive demands imposed upon Catholic Poland by the Nazis, observed that...

The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Culture of Disbelief How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion. By Stephen L. Carter. New York: Basic Books, 1993. 328pp. When Yale Law School professor, Stephen L. Carter, published The Culture of Disbelief in 1993,...

Liberty: Rethinking an Imperiled Ideal.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Liberty: Rethinking an Imperiled Ideal. By Glenn Tinder. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007. 407 pp. $27.00. Glenn Tinder's Liberty: Rethinking an Imperiled Ideal well represents the author's many years of rich...

Justice: Rights and Wrongs.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Justice: Rights and Wrongs. By Nicholas Wolterstorff. Princeton N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008. 393 pp. $39.50. In his 2006 address to the National Prayer Breakfast, Bono of U2 fame pointed to the "gigantic chasm between the scale...

Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism. Edited by Thomas Banchoff. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 322pp. $85.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism is a collection of papers. As such, and despite...

Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary: Conversations Between a Radical Democrat and a Christian.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary: Conversations between a Radical Democrat and a Christian. By Stanley Hauerwas and Romand Coles. Eugene, Ore.: Cascade Books, 2008. 366 pp. $39.00. Atheism was one of the best things that...

Empire and the Christian Tradition: New Readings of Classical Theologians.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Empire. The Christian Tradition: New Readings of Classical Theologians. Edited by Kwok Pui-Lan, Don H. Compier, and Joerg Rieger. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press. 2008. 560 pages. np. The turn to empire across the many academic...

Being Human: Race, Culture, and Religion.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Being Human: Race, Culture, and Religion. By Dwight N. Hopkins. Minneapolis, Minn.: Augsburg Fortress Press, 2005. 221pp. $21.00. Dwight N. Hopkins is Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School and also an ordained...

The Rights of God: Islam, Human Rights, and Comparative Ethics.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Rights of God:: Islam, Human Rights, and Comparative Ethics. By Irene Oh. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2007. 158pp. $24.95. Given the current political climate, Irene Oh is to be commended for producing a book arguing...

The Emergence of Christianity.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Emergence of Christianity. By Cynthia White. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007. xxxvi + 209 pp. $45.00. A contribution to the Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Ancient World, Cynthia White's overview of the emergence of...

Religion and Politics in Post-Communist Romania.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Religion and Politics in Post-Communist Romania. By Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu. Oxford University Press, 2007. 270pp. $55.00. The book jacket's blurb says it all. Religion and Politics in Post-Communist Romania is a "thoroughly...

Pius XII, the Holocaust and the Cold War.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Pius XII, the Holocaust and the Cold War.By Michael Phayer. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2008. 352pp. $29.5. In his latest book, Michael Phayer both revisits ground addressed in his earlier work, The Catholic Church and the...

Antisemitism, Christian Ambivalence, and the Holocaust.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Antisemitism, Christian Ambivalence, and the Holocaust. Edited by Kevin P. Spicer, C.S.C. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, in association with the United States Holocaust Memoria Museum, Washington, D.C., 2007. xxi + 331...

Conversion of a Continent: Contemporary Religious Change in Latin America.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Conversion of a Continent: Contemporary Religious Chan e in Latin America. Edited by Timothy J. Steigenga and Edward L. Cleary. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2007. 290pp. $25.95. Spain and Portugal imposed Catholicism on...

Prophet, Pastor, and Patriarch: The Rhetorical Leadership of Alexander Campbell.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Prophet, Pastor, and Patriarch: The Rhetorical Leadership of Alexander Campbell. By Peter A. Verkruyse. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. 225pp. $37.50. Alexander Campbell was a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian immigrant and later...

Masters of Illusion: The Supreme Court and the Religion Clauses.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Masters of Illusion: The Supreme Court and the Religion Clauses. By Frank S. Ravitch. New York: New York University Press, 2007. 239 pp. $45.00. Pity the poor scholar who sets out to write a new book on the Supreme Court's religion clause...

The Bible in the Park: Federal District Courts, Religious Speech, and the Public Forum.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The Bible In the Park. Federal District Courts, Religious Speech, and the Public Forum. By John Blakeman. Akron, Ohio: The University of Akron Press, 2005. 300 pp. $39.95. In his intriguing and informative book, John Blakeman takes up...

God and Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church-State Collaboration in Black America.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... God and Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church-State Collaboration in Black America. By Michael Leo Owens. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 304 pp. $22.00 paper. Inspired by the charitable choice provisions of the...

The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America. By David Domke and Kevin Coe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 231pp. $30.00. Books on the 2008 presidential election and religion are proliferating at an...

God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from john F. Kennedy to George W. Bush. By Randall Balmer. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2008. 243 pp. $24.95 paper. In 1960, presidential candidate John Kennedy insisted that...

From Pews to Polling Places: Faith and Politics in the American Religious Mosaic.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... From Pews to Polling Places. Faith and Politics in the American Religious Mosaic. Edited by J. Matthew Wilson. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2007. 288 pp. $26.95 paper. "As the preceding chapters in this volume have made...