Journal of Church and State articles from March 1998

Journal of Church and State archives from March 1998

Thoughts on religious persecution around the globe: problems and solutions.(Editorial)
March 22, 1998... As we approach the end of the twentieth century, the persecution of minority or disfavored religions unfortunately remains a serious problem in many parts of the world. In China, for example, as part of a widening government campaign to force...

Church elites and the restoration of civil society in the communist societies of Central Europe.
March 22, 1998... The active role played by churches in the pro-democracy movements of Eastern Europe in the late 1980s, particularly in Poland and East Germany, challenges us to take a closer look at some of the assumptions commonly held in the West about...

Local laws restricting religion in Russia: precursors of Russia's new national law.
March 22, 1998... A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PROBLEM THE LEGAL STATUS OF RELIGION IN RUSSIA AS OF 1990 In 1990, the Law on Freedom of Religions (hereafter 1990 Law) was adopted by the then Supreme Council of the Russian Federation and was then...

Principle, perception, and position: why Southern Baptist conservatives differ from moderates on church-state issues.
March 22, 1998... At the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in 1982, messengers passed a resolution favoring the Reagan administration's proposed prayer amendment, an amendment that was intended to bypass the Supreme Court's 1962 and 1963 decisions on prayer...

Sanctuary and sovereignty: church and state along the U.S.-Mexico border.
March 22, 1998... These days it is perhaps difficult to put oneself empathetically into a world in which the dynastic realm appeared for most men as the only imaginable "political" system.... Kingship organizes every thing around a high centre. Its legitimacy...

Keeping the faith: Justice David Souter and the First Amendment religion clauses.
March 22, 1998... Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof... First Amendment, U.S. Constitution Since his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court by President George Bush in 1990,...

Minority religious groups and religious freedom in England: the ISKON temple at Bhaktivedanta Manor.
March 22, 1998... In October 1997, the new Labor government in Britain published a bill that would incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights into British law.(1) When this bill is enacted, it will make fundamental changes in the ways that British...

The progressive Christian church and democracy in South Korea.
March 22, 1998... The authoritarian state that emerged in South Korea during the post-Liberation republican era (1948-present) lacked legitimacy and tolerated no criticism. The first president, Syngman Rhee--a democrat in conviction but an authoritarian in...

Islam and Democracy.
March 22, 1998... Islam and Democracy. By John L. Esposito and John O. Voll. New York: Oxford University Press, $45.00 cloth; $17.95 paper. This book consists of eight chapters, plus an introduction and a conclusion. The bulk of the book describes the...

The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion.
March 22, 1998... The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion. Edited by R. J. Zwi Werblowsky and Geoffrey Wigoder. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 792 pp. $95.00. Werblowsky is Martin Buber Professor of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew...

Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism.
March 22, 1998... Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism. By Aviezer Ravitzky. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 303 pp. $48.00 cloth; $17.95 paper. In this superb and profound book, Aviezer Ravitzky examines the highly...

Early Christian Thought in Its Jewish Context.
March 22, 1998... Early Christian Thought in Its Jewish Context. Edited by John Barclay and John Sweet. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 297 pp. $59.95. The essays in this volume were written to honor Morna D. Hooker, Lady Margaret's Professor of...

The Cambridge Companion to the Bible.
March 22, 1998... The Cambridge Companion to the Bible. By Howard Clark Lee, Eric M. Meyers, John Rogerson, and Anthony J. Saldarni. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 616 pp. np. This impressive book is attractively printed on a thick, textured,...

The Early Church Origins to the Dawn of the Middle Ages.
March 22, 1998... The Early Church: Origins to the Dawn of the Middle Ages. By E. Glenn Hinson. Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, 1996. 365 pp. $18.95 paper. This book provides an accessible introduction to the early Christian church for the general reader....

Late Merovingian France: History and Hagiograph, 640-720.
March 22, 1998... Late Merovingian France: History and Hagiography, 640-720. Edited and translated with an introduction and commentary by Paul Fouracre and Richard A. Gerberding. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1996. xi + 397 pp. $69.95...

Documents on the Later Crusades: 1274-1560.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... Documents on the Later Crusades, 1274-1560. Edited and translated by Norman Housley. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 204 pp. $45.00. A growing emphasis on crusades in the later Middle Ages and Early Modern period has been one of the most...

Monasteries of Greece.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... Monasteries of Greece. By Chris Hellier. London: I.B. Tauris, 1996. 224 pp. $50.00. Based on Helher's extensive travels, Monasteries of Greece surveys the origin, history, aesthetic quality, and current state of monasteries in Greece. After...

Renaissance.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... Renaissance. By George Holmes. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 272 pp. $35.00. This lavishly illustrated survey, intended for a general audience, presents a largely traditional view of the European Renaissance. It concentrates on high...

Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Reformation.
March 22, 1998... Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Reformation. Edited by Ole Peter Grell and Bob Scribner. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 294 pp. $59.95. This book of fifteen essays accomplishes what a landmark collection...

Popular Religion in Germany and Central Europe: 1400-1800.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... Popular Religion in Germany and Central Europe, 1400-1800. Edited by Bob Scribner and Trevor Johnson. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. viii + 282 pp. $45.00. The nine articles of this volume deal with female spirituality and the infant...

Religion and Political Culture in Britain and Ireland: From the Glorious Revolution to the Decline of Empire.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... Religion and Political Culture in Britain and Ireland: From the Glorious Revolution to the Decline of Empire. By David Hempton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xii + 191 pp. $49.95 cloth; $16.95 paper. This book is based on the...

Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine. Edited by Samuel H. Baron and Nancy Shields Kollmann. Dekalb, Ill: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997. 213 pp. $34.00. In the post-Soviet era, several countries such as Croatia,...

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Soviet State: 1939-1950.
March 22, 1998... The Ukranian Greek Catholic Church and the Soviet State (1939-1950). By Bohdan R. Bociurkiw. Edmonton, Toronto: The Canadian Institute of Ukranian Studies Press, 1996 320 pp. $39.95. This book provides a detailed account of the uneasy...

Power, Politics, and Pentecostal in Latin America.
March 22, 1998... Power, Politics, and Pentecostal in Latin America. Edited by Edward L. Cleary and Hannah W. Stewart-Gambino. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1997. 261 pp. $60.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. Ranging in focus from Chile in the south to Allentown,...

Popular Religion and Modernization in Latin America: A Different Logic.
March 22, 1998... Popular Religion and Modernization in Latin America: A Different Logic. By Cristian Parker. Translated by Robert R. Barr. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1996. 292 pp. $45.00. Cristian Parker, one of the foremost sociologists of religion in...

American Reform and Reformers: A Biographical Dictionary.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... American Reform and Reformers: A Biographical Dictionary. Edited by Randali M. Miller and Paul A. Cimbala. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. 576 pp. $115.00. The publication of a volume on reform in America in the late twentieth...

Massachusetts Congregationalist Political Thought: 1760-1790, The Design of Heaven.
March 22, 1998... Massachusetts Congregationalist Political Thought, 1760-1790: The Design of Heaven. By Dale S. Kuehne. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1996. 181 pp. $37.50. In Massachusetts Congregationalist Political Thought, Dale Kuehne...

Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America.
March 22, 1998... Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America. By Richard J. Carwardine. Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. 487 pp. $25.00. The praise this volume received with its initial release by Yale University in 1993 was...

America's Communial Utopias.
March 22, 1998... America's Communial Utopias. Edited by Donald E. Pitzer. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xxi + 537 pp. $24.95 paper. This edited collection describing America's communitarian societies and movements is...

A Cautious Patriotism: The American Churches and the Second World War.
March 22, 1998... A Cautious Patriotism: The American Churches and the Second World War. By Gerald L. Sittser. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 317 pp. $39.95. Those of us old enough to remember World War II may resist the...

Mennonites in American Society, 1930-1970: Modernity and the Persistence of Religious Community.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... Mennonites in American Society, 1930-1970: Modernity and the Persistence of Religious Community. By Paul Toews. Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1996. 441 pp. $19.95 paper. This book completes the four-volume "Mennonite Experience in America"...

American Evangelicals and the U.S. Military: 1942-1993.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... American Evangelicals and the U.S. Military, 1942-1993. By Anne C. Loveland. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. 356 pp. $55.00. Anne Loveland's history of the relationship between American evangelicals and the...

An Island in the Lake of Fire: Bob Jones University, Fundamentalism, and the Separatist Movement.
March 22, 1998... An Island in the Lake of Fire: Bob Jones University, Fundamentalism, and the Separatist Movement. By Mark Taylor Dalhouse. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1996. 211 pp. $24.95. For many years Bob Jones University billed itself...

Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1998... Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement (rev. ed.). By Michael Barkun. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 330 pp. $39.95 cloth; $15.95 paper. This is a revised edition of a...

Christianity on Trial: African-American Religious Thought Before and After Black Power.
March 22, 1998... Christianity on Trial: African-American Religious Thought Before and After Black Power. By Mark L. Chapman. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1996. xi + 180 pp. $18.95 paper. This book is comprised of five cogently argued, thoroughly documented...

Theology, History, and Culture: Major Unpublished Writings.
March 22, 1998... Theology, History, and Culture: Major Unpublished Writings. By H. Richard Niebuhr. Edited by William Stacy Johnson. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1996. 236 pp. $30.00. Those penetrating eyes, full of wisdom! That aging face, full...

The Crisis in the Churches: Spiritual Malaise, Fiscal Woe.
March 22, 1998... The Crisis in the Churches: Spiritual Malaise, Fiscal Woe. By Robert Wuthnow. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 291 pp. $30.00. Money is an important aspect of life. We spend much of our time thinking about money and working to earn...