Journal of Church and State articles from March 1997

Journal of Church and State archives from March 1997

Religion and the abuse of judicial power.(Editorial)
March 22, 1997... As the twenty-first century approaches, the relationship between law and religion in the United States remains controversial and occupies center stage in the nation's efforts to define its public philosophy. Law and religion issues surface in...

The modern religious objection to mandatory flag salute in America: a history and evaluation.
March 22, 1997... A bill came before the Senate in 1995 that was designed to "protect" the American flag. The measure failed to pass, but for many Americans, the attempt was only the most recent episode in a long and tragic story of flag protectionism which...

The burden of moral guilt: its theological and political implications. (Nazism and apartheid)
March 22, 1997... A crime is atoned for; political liability is limited by a peace treaty and thus brought to an end. As far as these two points are concerned, the idea is correct and meaningful. But moral and metaphysical guilt, which are understood only by the...

The Brazilian Catholic Church and church-state relations: nation-building.
March 22, 1997... Few national churches can match the Brazilian Catholic Church in creative visions. During the 1960s and 1970s, the Brazilian church led the larger Latin American church toward a progressive orientation. Brazilian bishops and theologians helped...

When worlds collide: politics, religion, and media at the 1970 East Tennessee Billy Graham Crusade. (appearance by President Richard M. Nixon)
March 22, 1997... "President Nixon expressed concern to me lest this visit should be interpreted as political. Certainly, a President of the United States should be allowed to attend a ball game, entertainment, or a religious service without it being interpreted...

A Catholic for President? John F. Kennedy and the "secular" theology of the Houston speech, 1960.
March 22, 1997... At 8:55 on the evening of Monday, 12 September 1960, John Fitzgerald Kennedy--the youthful but somewhat weary Democratic candidate in that year's closely fought presidential race--sat down on the dies in the ballroom of the Rice Hotel in...

Prisoner of history: the Eastern Orthodox Church in Poland in the twentieth century.
March 22, 1997... The disappearance of Poland as a sovereign state through the three Partitions of the eighteenth century and the subsequent unsuccessful Polish attempts to regain its unity and independence throughout the nineteenth century thrust the Roman...

Wisdom in Ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton.
March 22, 1997... Edited by John Day, Robert P. Gordon, and H.G.M Williamson. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 311 pp. $59.95. Despite being a collection of essays, a Festschrift for John Emerton, this well-edited work is unified by a...

Who Killed Jesus? Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... By John Dominic Crossan. San Francisco, Calif.: Harper SanFrancisco, 1995. 238 pp. $14.00. John Dominic Crossan has presented an in-depth analysis of the various biblical and extra-biblical narratives surrounding and including the death of...

The End of Days: A Story of Tolerance, Tyranny, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... By Erna Paris. Amherst, N.Y.: Promtheus Books, 1995. 327 pp. $28.95. Veteran journalist Erna Paris, three of whose previous four books have dealt with other topics in Jewish history, presents an overview of long and short term patterns and...

A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
March 22, 1997... By Mark Tessler. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1994. 966 pp. $57.50 cloth, $27.50 paper. Of all the issues that involve religion and politics, the Arab-Israeli conflict ranks among the top in complexity and endurance. It was...

The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Their Historic Development from the Middle Ages to the Dissolution of Yugoslavia.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... Edited by Mark Pinson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994. 187 pp. $14.95. When Yugoslavia's wars of succession spread to Bosnia-Herzegovina in April 1992, there were no books and few articles in English designed for the...

Islamic Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... By Ziad Abu-Amr. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1994. $29.95 cloth, $10.95 paper. In Islamic Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza, Ziad Abu-Amr, a political scientist at Birzeit University in the West Bank, offers a...

Al-Mughtaribun: American Law and the Transformation of Muslim Life in the United States.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... By Kathleen M. Moore. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press 1995. 211 pp. $16.95 paper. Kathleen Moore has written the only published study of Muslim Americans' encounter with the American legal system and the consequences of...

Global Gods: Exploring the Role of Religions in Modern Society.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... By David W. Shenk. Scottsdale, Penn.: Herald Press, 1995. 403 pp. $16.95. Assessing the influence of globalization dynamics on various aspects of contemporary culture and social institutions has become something of a growth industry among...

Human Rights and Reform: Changing the Face of North African Politics.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... By Susan E. Waltz. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1995. 295 pp. $45.00 cloth, $16.00 paper. This sophisticated and well-written study by Susan Waltz traces the evolution of the human rights movements in Tunisia, Algeria,...

Representing Hinduism: The Construction of Religious Traditions and National Identity.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... Edited by Vasudha Dalmia and Heinrich von Stietencron. Thousand Oaks, Calif. Sage Publications, 1995. 467 pp. $42.00. This collection of essays came out of a 1990 symposium on Hindu self-perception held at the University of Tubingen in...

Sri Lanka: The Invention of Enmity.
March 22, 1997... By David Little. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1994. 176 pages. $14.95 paper. David Little, senior scholar at the United States Institute of Peace has written an account of the conflict in Sri Lanka, based on a...

The Social World of the First Christians: Essays in Honor of Wayne A. Meeks.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... Edited by L. Michael White and O. Larry Yarborough. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 1995. 418 pp. $54.00. The introductory pages of appreciation for one of the most innovative sociological analysts of early Christianity are followed by a...

Cultures of Power: Lordship, Status, and Process in Twelfth-Century Europe.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... Edited by Thomas N. Bisson. Philadelphia, Penn.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. 347 pp. $46.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. This volume stems from a 1991 conference on Power and Society in the (extended) Twelfth Century (1050-1225)....

Christendom and Christianity in the Middle Ages: The Relations Between Religion, Church, and Society.
March 22, 1997... By Adriaan Hendrik Bredero. Translated by Reinder Bruinsma. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1994. 442 pp. $29.99. Adriaan Bredero is emeritus professor of medieval history at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and...

Hugo Grotius: Ordinum Hollandiae ac Westfrisiae Pietas, 1613.
March 22, 1997... Critical edition with English translation and commentary by Edwin Rabbie. New York: E.J. Brill, 1995. 714 pp. $203.50. Hugo de Groot's Ordinum Hollandiae ac Westfrisiae Pietas (The Religiousness of the States of Holland and Westfriesland) of...

The Catholic Church and Antisemitism: Poland, 1933-1939.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... By Ronald Modras. Langhorne, Penn.: Harwood Academic Publisher, 1994. 429 pp. $48.00. This book delivers more than the title promises. Ronald Modras discusses antisemitic articles published between the years 1933-1939 in several important...

Catholicism, Liberalism, and Communitarianism: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition and the Moral Foundations of Democracy.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... Edited by Kenneth L. Grasso, Gerard V. Bradley, and Robert P. Hunt. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1995. 360 pp. $64.50 cloth; $26.95 paper. This book can be read on at least two levels. On the first level, as an...

Religion and the Rise of Democracy.
March 22, 1997... By Graham Maddox. London: Routledge, 1996. 296 pp. $79.95. This is a powerful historical study, carefully constructed and copiously referenced (sixty pages of notes), which brings together scholarly interests in prophetic religion,...

Biblical Foundations and a Method of Doing Christian Ethics.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... By Elton M. Eenigenburg. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1993. 180 pp. $36.50 This book was written by a seminary professor out of his ". . . frustration, in more than twenty years of teaching Christian ethics at the seminary...

Coping with Poverty: Pentecostals and Christian Base Communities in Brazil.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... By Cecilia Loreto Mariz. Philadelphia, Penn.: Temple University Press, 1994. 195 pp. $16.95. Sociologist Cecilia Loreto Mariz analyzes religion as a survival strategy for the Brazilian poor. Her study does not address church-state affairs,...

The Orthodox Church.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... By Thomas E. Fitzgerald. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995. 240 pp. $65.00. The Orthodox Church, seventh in the Greenwood Press Denominations in America series, edited by Henry Warner Bowden, is a useful book, even if it does not...

Evangelical Christianity in the United States and Great Britain: Religious Beliefs, Political Choices.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... By J. Christopher Soper. New York: New York University Press, 1994. 198 pp. 440.00. J. Christopher Soper provides here a provocative defense of an alternative theory of evangelical political group formation. Using a comparative analysis of...

On Being the Church in the United States: Contemporary Theological Critiques of Liberalism.
March 22, 1997... By Barry Penn Hollar. New York: Peter Lang, 1994. 343 pp. $55.95. Barry Penn Hollar contends in this impressive book that the major options facing the contemporary church are all post-liberal to a greater or lesser degree. After a survey of...

In Good Company: The Church as Polis.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... By Stanley Hauerwas. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995. 268 pp. $29.95. With In Good Company, Stanley Hauerwas presents a collection of thirteen essays, eleven previously published and two new essays included to round...

Fighting for Liberty and Virtue: Political and Cultural Wars in Eighteenth-Century America.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... By Marvin Olasky. Wheaton, III.: Crossway Books, 1995. 316 pp. $25.00. In Fighting for Liberty and Virtue, Christian conservative Marvin Olasky presents his reading of eighteenth-century American political and religious life. Starting with...

Sworn on the Altar of God: A Religious Biography of Thomas Jefferson.
March 22, 1997... By Edwin S. Gaustad. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1996. 244 pp. $15.00 paper. In an earlier book titled Neither King Nor Prelate, historian Edwin S. Gaustad documented the religious views of key figures of the...

Religion and the Working Class in Antebellum America.
March 22, 1997... By Jama Lazarow. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. 353 pp. $39.50. Few scholars have explored the contributions of Protestantism to American antebellum labor protest in the United States. Those doing so largely limit...

John Dewey: An Intellectual Portrait.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... By Sidney Hook. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Press, 1995. $29.95. The strength of this volume, published as Dewey entered his ninth decade, is its sympathetic account of Deweys philosophical work by a colleague who was himself a towering...

Christianity and Civil Society: Theological Education for Public Life.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... Edited by Rodney L. Petersen. Maryknoll, N.Y. and Cambridge, Mass.: Orbis Books and Boston Theological Institute, 1995. 165 pp. $16.95. This is a confusing book. It is one part commemorative, honoring the twenty-fifth anniversary of the...

The Amish Struggle with Modernity.
March 22, 1997... Edited by Donald B. Kraybill and Marc A. Olshan. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1994. 304 pp. $17.95. This collection of fourteen essays contains a great deal of useful information about the Amish in the contemporary world....

Christianity and Economics in the Post-Cold War Era: The Oxford Declaration and Beyond.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... Edited by Herbert Schlossberg, Vinay Samuel, and Ronald J. Sider. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1994. 186 pp. $10.99 paper. This book "represents an attempt to assess the significance of the Oxford Declaration [on...

America First! Its History, Culture, and Politics.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... By Bill Kauffman. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1995. 296 pp. $25.95. Today everyone claims to be a populist. In the 1992 election, Ross Perot, Jesse Jackson, Jerry Brown, Pat Buchanan, Bill Clinton, and even George Bush claimed to be...

Abortion: The Supreme Court Decisions.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1997... Edited with an Introduction by Ian Shapiro. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Publishing Company, 1995. 267 pp. $12.95 paper. This book is a useful compilation of United States Supreme Court cases on or relevant to abortion, and a brief history of...

Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in America.
March 22, 1997... By Mark Silk. Urbana, III.: University of Illinois Press, 1995. 181 pp. $19.95. The criticism of the American news media as being liberal and secular is common among many religious leaders and lay people. Author Mark Silk, however,...