Journal of Church and State articles from March 1999

Journal of Church and State archives from March 1999

"A most mild and equitable establishment of religion": John Adams and the Massachusetts experiment.
March 22, 1999... I. TWO MODELS OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY Thomas Jefferson once described the 1779 Bill for the Establishment of Religious Freedom in Virginia as a "fair" and "novel experiment" in religious liberty for all.(1) This bill, declared Jefferson,...

Religion sans ultimate: a re-examination of church-state law.
March 22, 1999... I. WHY RECONSIDER CHURCH-STATE LAW The opening words of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, preceding even the great freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, grant freedom of religion: "Congress shall make no law respecting an...

Teaching Christian ethics in Russian public schools: the testing of Russia's church-state boundaries.
March 22, 1999... On 5 November 1992, before a crowd of over 8,000 Christian teachers in Anaheim, California, three officials from the Russian Ministry of Education extended an unusual invitation. Speaking on behalf of the Ministry of Education, they asked these...

Spiritual resistance of Christian conviction in Nazi Germany: the case of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
March 22, 1999... JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES AS MODERN-DAY REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CHILIASTIC TRADITION The root of the Greek word chiliasmus is "chilioi," which means "a thousand," and which in Christian terminology refers to the thousand-year reign of Jesus...

Why African churches preach politics: the case of Zambia.
March 22, 1999... In a brief foreword to a work on the influence of religious movements on national and international politics, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter named the Southern African nation of Zambia as a good "case in point" of a country in which "the...

Scottish missionaries and the governance of the New Hebrides.
March 22, 1999... Perhaps in no part of the world have missionaries been more heavily involved in matters of civil governance than in the South Pacific. Particularly enterprising in this respect were the seven Scotsmen whose efforts to convert the inhabitants of...

Islamic Law: Theory and Practice.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Islamic Law: Theory and Practice. Edited by Robert Gleave. New York: I.B. Taurus, 1997. 248 pp. $75.00. Islam, at its best, is an intellectual religion, rich in cultural heritage with an admirable self-discipline and concern for the poor....

Islamic Fundamentalism.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Islamic Fundamentalism. By Lawrence Davidson. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. 186 pp. $39.95. Lawrence Davidson, associate professor of history at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, has written a concise survey of contemporary...

The Scroll or the Sword? Dilemmas of Religion and Military Service in Israel.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... The Scroll or the Sword? Dilemmas of Religion and Military Service in Israel. By Stuart A. Cohen. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997. 148 pp. np. After the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by a religious zealot in...

The Jewish State - A Century Later.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... The Jewish State--A Century Later. By Alan Dowty. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1998. 337 pp. $35.00. This book is an important contribution to the English language literature on Israeli politics. Using valuable...

The Reach of Rome: A History of the Roman Imperial Frontier, 1st-5th Centuries AD.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... The Reach of Rome: A History of the Roman Imperial Frontier, 1st-5th Centuries AD. By Derek Williams. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. 342 pp. $29.95. Much has been written on Roman Frontiers in the past fifty years and much of this...

Varieties of Religious Conversion in the Middle Ages.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Varieties of Religious Conversion in the Middle Ages. Edited by James Muldoon. Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 1997. 208 pp. $49.95. In this work, editor James Muldoon draws together a superb compilation of eleven essays on...

Tormented Voices: Power, Crisis and Humanity in Rural Catalonia, 1140-1200.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Tormented Voices: Power, Crisis and Humanity in Rural Catalonia, 1140-1200. By Thomas N. Bisson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. xiv + 186 pp. $18.95 paper. Tormented Voices is a microhistory meant to illuminate the...

The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision. By Henry Kamen. New Have, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997. xii + 369 pp. $35.00. Connoisseurs of Spanish history require no introduction to Henry Kamen. Bringing a wealth of factual...

The Invention of the Crusades.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... The Invention of the Crusades. By Christopher Tyerman. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. 170 pp. $40.00 cloth; $16.95 paper. In the hallowed, though tarnished, halls of medieval studies, no dispute has so dominated the last three...

Imagining Peace: A History of Early English Pacifist Ideas 1340-1560.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Imagining Peace: A History of Early English Pacifist Ideas, 1340-1560. By Ben Lowe. University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. 362pp. $60.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. Ben Lowe explores the creation of a language of...

The Convert Kings: Power and Religious Affiliation in Early Anglo-Saxon England.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... The Convert Kings: Power and Religious Affiliation in Early Anglo-Saxon England. By N. J. Higham. Manchester. Manchester University Press, 1997. 293 pp. $24.95. In this study, N. J. Higham examines the role of Christian conversion in the...

Sermons at Court: Politics and Religion in Elizabethan and Jacobean Preaching.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Sermons at Court: Politics and Religion in Elizabethan and Jacobean Preaching. By Peter E. MeCullough. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 237 pp. $64.95. Peter McCullough's Sermons at Court: Politics and Religion in...

Power and the Sacred in Revolutionary Russia, Religious Activists in the Village.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Power and the Sacred in Revolutionary Russia, Religious Activists in the Village. By Glennys Young. University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. 307 pp. $47.50. A comprehensive survey of religious life in the Russian...

Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany after Unification.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany after Unification. Edited by Hermann Kurthen, Werner Bergmann, and Ranier Erb. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xv + 318 pp. np. The unification of Germany almost a decade ago raised concerns,...

Piety, Power, and Politics: Religion and Nation Formation in Guatemala 1821-1871.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Piety, Power, and Politics: Religion and Nation Formation in Guatemala 1821-1871. By Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. 182 pp. $45.00. This innovative and sometimes startling book takes on a...

The Sacred Flame of Love: Methodism and Society in Nineteenth-Century Georgia.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... The Sacred Flame of Love: Methodism and Society in Nineteenth-Century Georgia. By Christopher H. Owen. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1998. 290 pp. np. Focusing on the entire nineteenth century, Christopher Owen explores an...

Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America. By John H. Wigger. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 269 pp. $55.00. John H. Wigger contends that "American Methodism was the largest, most...

Religious Liberty on Trial: Hanserd Knollys--Early Baptist Hero.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Religious Liberty on Trial: Hanserd Knollys--Early Baptist Hero. By Muriel James. Franklin, Tenn.: Providence House Publishers, 1997. 204 pp. $16.95 paper. In this book Muriel James presents a life-and-times biography of Hanserd Knollys,...

Alabama Baptists: Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Alabama Baptists: Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie. By Wayne Flynt. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: The University of Alabama Press, 1998. 731 pp. $29.95. Students of Southern history owe Wayne Flynt a debt of gratitude. In Dixie's Forgotten...

Christianity and Liberal Society.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Christianity and Liberal Society. By Robert Song. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. 250 pp. $65.00. A brief review cannot do justice to a very carefully argued theological and philosophical treatise. Robert Song, a British Roman Catholic...

God and the Goods: Global Economy in a Civilizational Perspective.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... God and the Goods: Global Economy in a Civilizational Perspective. By Bas de Gaay Fortman and Berma Klein Goldewijk. Geneva, Switzerland: WCC Publications, 1998. 100 pp. $8.95 paper. In this brief but well-focused book, the authors...

The State and Religion in a Nutshell.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... The State and Religion in a Nutshell. West Nutshell Series. By Thomas C. Berg. St. Paul, Minn.: West Group, 1998. 285 pp. $18.00 paper. Generations of law students have relied on the West Nutshell series. They are the Cliffs Notes of law...

Everson Revisited: Religion, Education, and Law at the Crossroads.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Everson Revisited: Religion, Education, and Law at the Crossroads. Edited by Jo Renee Formicola and Hubert Morken. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1997. np. Written to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark...

Mere Creation: Science, Faith & Intelligent Design.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Mere Creation: Science, Faith & Intelligent Design. Edited by William A. Dembski. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1908. 475 pp. np. In Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), Thomas Kuhn convincingly documented the role that a...