Journal of Church and State articles from March 2006

Journal of Church and State archives from March 2006

The journal and the tradition of religious liberty.
March 22, 2006... "The relation between Church and State is the greatest subject in the history of the West," wrote the Swiss theologian Emil Brunner. In more local terms, certainly the subject has been central in shaping the heritage and defining the character...

Should the United States support religious education in the Islamic World?
March 22, 2006... The United States and its allies are involved in changing schooling in several Islamic countries, especially Iraq and Afghanistan, but also Pakistan and elsewhere. Specifically, the United States promotes and provides resources for changes in...

Governance and the religion question: voluntaryism, disestablishment, and America's church-state proposition.
March 22, 2006... The quandary over how to structure the relationship between religion and the civil state is an ancient one. From the perspective of political philosophy this is the religion question, and events over many centuries have proven that the answer...

Cardinal Humberto Medeiros and the desegregation of Boston's public schools, 1974-1976.
March 22, 2006... American culture in the 1960s and 1970s was characterized by what became known as the counterculture. In all walks of life, from every economic level, and from coast to coast, people began to think and act quite differently than the rather...

Local compliance with Supreme Court decisions: making space for religious expression in public schools.(response to Steven P. Brown and Cynthia J. Bowling, Journal of Church and State, vol. 45, p. 259, March 2003)
March 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION In their article, "Public Schools and Religious Expression: The Diversity of School Districts Policies Regarding Religious Expression," (1) Brown and Bowling take a first cut at describing and explaining school district...

The problems of church and state: dissenting politics and the London Missionary Society in 1830s Britain.
March 22, 2006... During the 1830s, calls for the disestablishment of the Church of England were increasingly common, and hotly debated within Protestant Dissent. This article examines the controversy within the predominantly Congregationalist London Missionary...

The religious geography of religious expression: local governments, courts, and the First Amendment.
March 22, 2006... LOCAL GOVERNMENT POLICYMAKING AND RELIGION Scholars of religion and politics have long noted the impact influence of religion on local government policymaking. More so than state or federal politics, local politics often engage the...

A political history of Bektashism from Ottoman Anatolia to contemporary Turkey.
March 22, 2006... The origin of the Bektashi order of dervishes belongs to the many Sufi movements of Islam that developed in the Middle East from the eleventh and twelfth centuries onwards. (1) At this time, a number of missionary precursors, known as the...

Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence. By Stanley Hauerwas. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brazos Press, 2004. 252pp. $21.99 paper. In this work, Professor Hauerwas seeks to show the connection between truth and...

Glory, Grace, and Culture: The Work of Hans Urs Von Balthasar.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Glory, Grace, and Culture: The Work of Hans Urs Von Balthasar. Edited by Ed Block, Jr. New York: Paulist Press, 2005. 244 pp. np. Described as "perhaps the most cultivated man of his time," Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) was a Swiss...

Between Pacifism and Jihad: Just War and Christian Tradition.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Between Pacifism and Jihad: Just War and Christian Tradition. By J. Daryl Charles. Downer's Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity Press, 2005. np. Is the concept of just war an oxymoron? How does war beget peace? With the terrorist attacks on September...

Democratic Faith.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Democratic Faith. By Patrick J. Deneen. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. 365 pp. $45.00. Apparently, democracy has some core problems. One is that people do not deserve it, at least in their present condition. For the...

A Black Political Theology.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... A Black Political Theology. By J. Deotis Roberts. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2005 [1974]. 238 pp. $24.95. This book was originally published in 1974 as an examination of some of the foundations and most important elements...

The Stranger's Religion: Fascination and Fear.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Stranger's Religion: Fascination and Fear. Edited by Anna Lannstrom. South Bend, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. xvill + 192 pp. $25.00 paper. The Stranger's Religion is the latest volume of the annual Boston University...

Facing the World: Orthodox Christian Essays on Global Concerns.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Facing the World: Orthodox Christian Essays on Global Concerns. By Archbishop Anastasios Yannoulatos. Crestwood, N.Y.: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2003. np. This collection of essays by the Archbishop of Tirana and All Albania addresses...

Eastern Orthodoxy in a Global Age: Tradition Faces the Twenty-First Century.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Eastern Orthodoxy in a Global Age: Tradition Faces the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Victor Roudometof, Alexander Agadjanian, and Jerry Pankhurst. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2005, 290 pp. $59.00. This book...

Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages: A Sourcebook.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages: A Sourcebook. Edited by Conor McCarthy. New York: Routledge, 2004. 292 pp. $31.95. This book is a collection of primary-source documents related to the various legal and social conventions that...

Reformation Europe: New Approaches to European History.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Reformation Europe (New Approaches to European History Series). By Ulinka Rublack. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 208 pp. $22.99 paper. By utilizing methods and approaches of the new cultural history, Rublack has undertaken an...

Solidarity in Europe: The History of an Idea.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Solidarity in Europe: The History of an Idea. By Steinar Stjerno. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 392 pp. $75.00. The manifold discontents of the post-industrial welfare state make this study particularly timely....

Religion and the Rise of Nationalism: A Profile of an East-Central European City.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Religion and the Rise of Nationalism: A Profile of an East-Central European City. By Robert E. Alvis. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2005. 226 pp. $34.95. This provocatively framed book's central argument is that...

The Fisherman's Net: The Influence of the Popes on History.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Fisherman's Net: The Influence of the Popes on History. By Michael Collins. Mahwah, N. J.: Hidden Spring, rev. ed. 2005. 287 pp. $16.00. Although historians and scholars of the papacy will find nothing new or unknown in this book,...

Modern Catholic Social Teaching: Commentaries and Interpretations.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Modern Catholic Social Teaching: Commentaries and Interpretations. Edited by Kenneth R. Himes, O.F.M. Associate editors Lisa Sowle Cahill, Charles E. Curran, David Hollenbach, S.J., and Thomas Shannon. Washington, D.C. Georgetown University...

John Courtney Murray in a Cold War Context.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... John Courtney Murray in a Cold War Context. By Thomas W. O'Brien. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2004. 188 pp. $28.00 paper. No doubt the most important event of the Catholic Church during the past century was the Second Vatican...

The Spirit in Public Theology: Appropriating the Legacy of Abraham Kuyper.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Spirit in Public Theology: Appropriating the Legacy of Abraham Kuyper. By Vincent E. Bacote. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2005. 172 pp. np. Vincent E. Bacote, assistant professor of theology at Wheaton College, is president of...

Early New England: A Covenanted Society.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Early New England: A Covenanted Society. By David A. Weir. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005. 460 pp. np. When Perry Miller emphasized the significance of covenant theology to New England Puritans, he created...

Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans. By James B. Bennett. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. 320 pp. $39.50. In Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans, James B. Bennett explains why, despite an early...

Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War. By E. Brooks Holifield. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003. 617 pp. $35.00. Scholars of American Christianity in the last generation have been...

Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952. By Wallace D. Best. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. 256 pp. $39.95. The story of the Great Migration of African-Americans from the...

God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law. By Marci A. Hamilton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xii+414 pp. np. In the 1990s, Stephen Carter of Yale University produced The Culture of Disbelief, an important volume on the...

America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity. By Robert Wuthnow. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. 421 pp. $29.95. Sociologists cannot practice their craft without categorizing the people they study. This becomes...