Journal of Church and State articles from March 2004

Journal of Church and State archives from March 2004

Reacting to France's ban: headscarves and other religious attire in American public schools.
March 22, 2004... I. INTRODUCTION In March 2004, the French parliament overwhelmingly enacted a law to prohibit public school students from wearing clothing and insignia that "conspicuously manifest a religious affiliation." While the law is broadly...

Religious regulation and the courts: documenting the effects of Smith and RFRA.(Religious Freedom Restoration Act)
March 22, 2004... Following Employment Division v. Smith in 1990, critics charged that the Supreme Court overruled thirty years of religious Free Exercise Clause jurisprudence. Whereas Sherbert v. Verner in 1963 posited that the state must have "compelling...

Russian imperialism and jihad: early 19th-century Persian texts on just war.
March 22, 2004... The modern application of concepts of jihad and mujahid are frequently traced to the invasion of Afghanistan by Soviet forces in the early 1980s. (1) However, some of the earliest applications of these concepts in the modern era are related to...

The constitutionality of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act under the Establishment Clause.
March 22, 2004... This is an article few thought would need to be written. In a surprising turn, two federal district courts have ruled that a new law exempting religious organizations and prisoners from laws burdening their exercise of religion is...

"One nation, under God": tolerable acknowledgement of religion or unconstitutional cold war propaganda cloaked in American civil religion?
March 22, 2004... A recent poll conducted by Newsweek magazine showed that nearly 90 percent of Americans believe that the words "under God" should be included in the Pledge of Allegiance. (1) What the poll did not show is the percentage of Americans who are...

The Catholic Church and political mediation in the Dominican Republic: a comparative perspective.
March 22, 2004... This essay looks at the Catholic Church and political mediation in the Dominican Republic during the 1980s and 1990s. It opens with a review of the Latin American context regarding the transition to democracy, the debt crisis, and the church's...

The Catholic Church and conflict resolution in Mozambique's post-colonial conflict, 1977-1992.
March 22, 2004... Mozambique became independent on 25 June 1975 after ten years of military struggle against Portuguese colonial domination. Three political movements contributed to topple the colonial regime: the National Democratic Union of Mozambique...

Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India, 1818-1940.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India, 1818-1940. By Jeffrey Cox. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002. 384 pp. $55.00. Jeffrey Cox has undertaken a complex task, "a study of how missionaries in the...

The Courage to Hope: The Roots for a New Vision and the Calling of the Church in Africa.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Courage to Hope: The Roots for a New Vision and the Calling of the Church in Africa. By Samuel Kobia. Geneva: World Council of Churches, 2003. 218 pp. np. Africa has suffered the horror of slavery, colonialism, civil wars, corruption,...

Faith in Development: Partnership Between the World Bank and the Churches of Africa.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Faith in Development: Partnership between the World Bank and the Churches of Africa. Edited by Deryke Belshaw, Robert Calderisi, and Chris Sugden. Oxford: Regnum Books, 2001. 246 pp. np. Faith in Development is comprised of nineteen papers...

Liberation Theology in the Philippines: Faith in a Revolution.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Liberation Theology in the Philippines: Faith in a Revolution (Religion in the Age of Transformation Series). By Kathleen M. Nadeau. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2002. 129 pp. $59.00. Liberation theology is a venerable topic among...

The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge's Oriental Pilgrimage.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge's Oriental Pilgrimage. By Norman J. Girardot. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2002. 780 pp. $75.00. At the end of 536 pages of text on James Legge, Norman Girardot reports...

Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practice Under the Tsars and Beyond.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... ORTHODOX RUSSIA: Belief and Practice Under the Tsars and Beyond. Edited by Valerie A. Kivelson & Robert H. Greene. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. 291 pp + vii. $49.95. The series of essays in this book are...

Notre laicite publique: Our Public Laicite.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Notre laicite publique [Our Public Laicite]. By Emile Poulat. Paris: Berg International Editeurs, 2003). 416 pages, n.p. Our Public Laicite is the keystone of Emile Poulat's distinguished forty years of scholarship. Poulat, director of...

Constraint on Trial: Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert and Religious Freedom.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Constraint on Trial: Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert and Religious Freedom. By Voogt, Gerrit. Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 2000. 268pp. $19.00. Religious tolerance, as is generally understood today, is in many ways a modern...

The Decline of Christendom in Western Europe: 1750-2000.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, 1750-2000. Edited by Hugh McLeod and Werner Ustorf. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 234 pp. np. Hugh McLeod and Werner Ustorf, through the contributions of theologians,...

One Body in Christ: The History and Significance of the Evangelical Alliance.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... One Body in Christ: The History and Significance of the Evangelical Alliance. By Ian Randall and David Hilborn. Carlisle, Cumbria: Paternoster Press, 2001. 394 pp. $20.00 paper. This neatly published little book is a welcome addition to...

Pius XII and the Holocaust: Understanding the Controversy.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By Jose Sanchez. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2002. 197pp. $39.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Using the scholarly studies available, Jose Sanchez has carefully explored the complex and controversial behavior as well...

Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By Jean Bethke Elshtain. New York: Basic Books, 2003. 240 pp. $23.00. University of Chicago social and political ethicist Jean Bethke Elshtain has written a book that few of her contemporaries in the academy could or would write. To write...

The Just War Revisited: Current Issues in Theology.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By Oliver O'Donovan. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 139 pp. $19.00. This brief volume issues out of four lectures that were delivered at the University of Aberdeen in December 2001. In speaking of just war "revisited,"...

One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By Rodney Stark. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. 319pp. $24.95. Does God work? And its corollary, "how" God works (presuming the first) are questions that are alive and well and certainly at issue in the halls of...

The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Edited by Jeffrey Kaplan and Helene Loow. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, 2002. 353 pp. $26.95 paper. As the title and subtitle indicate, this book notes the globalization of the cultic milieu. The cultic milieu is oppositional by...

Faith in Politics.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By James A. Reichley. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2002. 429pp, $20.95. Building on previously published historical (Religion in American Public Life. Brookings, 1985) and philosophical work (The Values Connection, Rowman...

Building the Christian Academy.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By Arthur F. Holmes. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2001. v + 122 pp. np. Arthur Holmes is no stranger to the discussion and literature regarding the role of Christianity in higher education. This particular volume presents an abbreviated...

Modernity and the Dilemma of North American Anglican Identities: 1880-1950.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By William H. Katerberg. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. xii +306 pp. $49.95. There have been numerous studies of the history of the Protestant Episcopal Church in, the USA and the Anglican Church of Canada. Fewer works...

Growing up Abolitionist: The Story of the Garrison Children.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By Harriet Hymau Alonso. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. 409 pp. $80.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. On the classic animated television series The Simpsons, whenever a major moral or ethical dilemma confronts the...

God and the Constitution: Christianity and American Politics.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By Paul Marshall. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002. 192 pp. $27.95. Patti Marshall's study is a wide-ranging account of the relation of religion and politics in America. Although it deals less with the constitution than...

The Church Universal and Triumphant: Elizabeth Clare Prophet's Apocalyptic Movement.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By Bradley C. Whitsel. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2003. xvi + 221 pp. $19.95 paper. This book should become the primary academic source on Church Universal and Triumphant (CUT). It deftly sets the group in its religious and...