Journal of Church and State articles from March 2000

Journal of Church and State archives from March 2000

Effects of the Western anti-cult movement on development of laws concerning religion in post-Communist Russia.
March 22, 2000... INTRODUCTION Recent changes in Russian religious legislation have caused concern in many quarters both within and outside Russia. Explanations for these changes have been offered which are based on various assumptions, ranging from an...

The Religious Right's assault on the rights of religion: undermining the constitutionally protected status of religious schools.
March 22, 2000... Lawyers and legal advocacy groups for the religious right are engaged in a vigorous if not entirely intentional assault on the constitutionally protected status of religion. The rallying cry of the effort is "end religious discrimination now!"...

Indigenous minority rights, citizenship, and the new Jerusalem: a reflection on the future of Palestinians and Jews in the expanded state of Israel.
March 22, 2000... For the past decades arguments have been made for the separation of Jews and Palestinians into two states. Based on strategic, practical, and moral considerations these arguments have been supported by Jews and Palestinians across a moderate to...

Differentiating the Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses.
March 22, 2000... The purpose of the Establishment Clause is not to safeguard individual religious rights. That is the role of the Free Exercise Clause, indeed its singular role. The purpose of the Establishment Clause, rather, is as a structural restraint on...

Are congregations constrained by government? Empirical results from the National Congregations Study.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2000... The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) became law in 1993. It prohibited government from "substantially burdening" a person's exercise of religion even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability unless the government can...

State religious education - religion vs. state.(Israel)
March 22, 2000... INTRODUCTION State religious schools in Israel are supposed to be faithful to the general-secular values of the state, on the one hand, and to promote a religious way of life, on the other.(1) One might say, therefore, that this...

Friendship and Society: An Introduction to Augustine's Practical Philosophy.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Friendship & Society. An Introduction to Augustine's Practical Philosophy. By Donald X. Burt, O.S.A. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999. 239 pp. $18.00. The stated aim of this book is "introducing the thought of...

Just Peacemaking: Ten Practices for Abolishing War.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Just Peacemaking: Ten Practices for Abolishing War. Edited by Glen H. Stassen. Cleveland, Oh., Pilgrim Press, 1998. 209 pp. $16.95. Debates about war tend to focus only on the questions of whether it is ever justified to go to war and, if...

What in the World Is God Doing? Re-Imagining Spirit and Power.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... What in the World is God Doing? Re-Imaginning Spirit and Power. By Lee E. Snook. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress, 1999. 171 pp. $17.00. Lee E. Snook, professor emeritus at Luther Seminary, had no idea how comfortable and complacent he was in...

Explorations in Ethics: Readings Across the Curriculum.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Explorations in Ethics: Readings Across the Curriculum. Edited by Philip A. Rolnick. Greensboro, N.C.: Greensboro College Press, 1998. 231 pp. np. As the editor of Explorations in Ethics: Readings Across the Curriculum, Philip A. Rolnick,...

Paul Ricoeur: The Promise and Risk of Politics.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Paul Ricoeur: The Promise & Risk of Politics. By Bernard P. Dauenhauer. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1998. 338 pp. $68.00 cloth, $24.96 paper. Professor Dauenhauer has provided the English language literature with a...

Capitalism and Christianity: The Possibility of Christian Personalism.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Capitalism and christianity: The Possibility of Christian Personalism By Richard C. Bayer. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1999. 167 pp. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Richard Bayer's Capitalism and Christianity is yet another...

African Christianity: Its Public Role.(Review)
March 22, 2000... African Christianity: Its Public Role. By Paul Gifford. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1999. 368 pp. $31.95. During the past few decades, many books have been published on African Christianity. Most of them indicate directly...

Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook. Edited by Charles Kurzman. New York: Oxford University Press 1998. 340 pp. np. This sourcebook, edited by Charles Kurzman, is an anthology of thirty-two texts by Muslim authors presenting an Islamic perspective...

Jihad: The Origin of Holy War in Islam.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Jihad: The Origin of Holy War in Islam. By Reuven Firestone. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 195 pp. np. Reuven Firestone is director of the Graduate School at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. This...

Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pope Pius XII.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pople Piux XII. By John Cornwell. New York: Viking, 1999. 430 pp. $29.95. The most widely read, and perhaps most influential, works on Pius XII and the Holocaust have not been produced by historians....

"Godless Communists": Atheism and Society in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932.(Review)
March 22, 2000... "Godless Communists": Atheism and Society in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932. By William B. Husband. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000. 241 pp. $36.00. "The choice between religion and atheism... did not result in a clear...

Conservative Protestant Politics.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Conservative Protestant Politics. By Steve Bruce. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 236 pp. $55.00. University of Aberdeen sociologist Steve Bruce has made a comparative study of conservative Protestant political movements in...

Religious Freedom and Evangelization in Latin America: The Challenge of Religious Pluralism.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Religious Freedom and Evangelization in Latin America: The Challenge of Pluralism. Edited by Paul E. Sigmund. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1999. 350 pp. $25.00. Paul Sigmund, a professor of politics at Princeton University, has edited a...

The Catholic University as Promise and Project: Reflections in a Jesuit Idiom.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Catholic University as Promise and Project. Reflections in a Jesuit Idiom. By Michael J. Burkley, S.J. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1998. 224 pages, np. Rather than a systematic and comprehensive treatment of Catholic...

God Versus Caesar: Belief, Worship, and Proselytizing Under the First Amendment.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... God Versus Caesar: Belief, Worship, and Proselytizing under the First Amendment. By Martin S. Sheffer. New York: State University of New York Press, 1999. 213 pp. $57.50 cloth, $18.95 paper. God Versus Caesar is Martin S. Sheffer's...

We the People: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court.(Review)
March 22, 2000... We the People: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court. By Michael J. Perry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 275 pp. $35.00. In We the People, Michael Perry addresses the question of the judicial usurpation of the political...

Revolutionary Anglicanism: The Colonial Church of England During the American Revolution.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Revolution Anglicanism: The Colonical Church of England During the American Revolution. By Nancy L. Rhoden. New York: NYU Press, 1999. 224 pp. $40.00. This book is possibly the first that attempts a comprehensive study of the Anglican...

Religion and the New Republic: Faith in the Founding of America.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Religion and the New Republic: Faith in the Founding of America. Edited by James H. Hutson. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. 213 pp. $24.95 paper. This collection of articles by well-known authors considers whether Christianity had...

Southern Churches in Crisis Revisited.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Southern Churches in Crisis Revisited. By Samuel S. Hill. Tusealoosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1999. 234 pp. $24.95. One of the towering figures in the study of religion in the southern U.S., Samuel S. Hill, has reissued and...

A Catholic New Deal: Religion and Reform in Depression Pittsburgh.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... A Catholic New Deal: Religion and Reform in Depression Pittsburgh. By Kenneth J. Heineman. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. 287 pp. $60.00 cloth, $22.50 paper. Kenneth J. Heineman chose Pittsburgh because of...

Contemporary American Religion, 2 vols.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Contemporary American Religion, 2 vols. Edited by Wade Clark Roof. New York: MacMillian Reference USA, 2000. 861 pp. $225.00. The preface to this two-volume reference work states that it is "intended as a lexicon of popular religious...

UFO Cults and the New Millennium.(Review)
March 22, 2000... UFO Cults and the New Millennium. By William M. Alnor. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1998. 203 pp. np. paper. Until the reign of Peter the Great, Russians reckoned time from the "creation of the world." Many were convinced that the...

Millenniums, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Millenniums, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements. Edited by Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer. New York: Routledge, 1997. 334 pp. np. paper. Until the reign of Peter the Great, Russians reckoned time from the...

The End of the World as We Know It: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalypse in America.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The End of the World As We Know It: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalypse in America. By Daniel Wojcik. New York: New York University Press, 1997. 281 pp. np. Until the reign of Peter the Great, Russians reckoned time from the "creation of the...