Journal of Church and State articles from March 2007

Journal of Church and State archives from March 2007

Remembering Robert F. Drinan, S.J.: ardent voice for social justice and human rights.(Obituary)
March 22, 2007... On the same day, 29 January 2007, that tens of thousands of people marched in Washington against the Iraq war, Newsweek observed, "the country lost one of its most principled and dedicated antiwar voices," Robert F. Drinan (1920-2007). The...

Philip Schaff: religion, politics, and the transatlantic world.
March 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION In a 2004 New York Times op-ed, "Across a Great Divide," respected German journalist Peter Schneider wrote that "the war in Iraq has made the Atlantic seem wider. But really it had the effect of a magnifying glass, bringing...

Europe's rebellious daughter: will Ireland be forced to conform its abortion law to that of its neighbors?
March 22, 2007... Four women have challenged Ireland's constitutional ban on abortion in a pair of cases before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)--D v. Ireland and ABC v. Ireland. In an interesting twist, the women have bypassed the Irish judiciary and...

Sites of conflict in the Indian secular state: secularism, caste and religious conversion.
March 22, 2007... When the British left India in 1947, two new nations were created. The division of the Indian subcontinent into India and Pakistan and again later in 1955, with the division of East Pakistan, which in 1971 became Bangladesh, resulted in mass...

Christianity in contemporary China: an update.
March 22, 2007... Although China has the fastest-growing economy in the world, it is still governed by a powerful one-party state. Within this context, the resurgence of Christianity reflects a broader phenomenon of China's growing interest in religion and...

Rabbis and rulings: insubordination in the military and Israeli democracy.
March 22, 2007... Since the establishment of the state of Israel, consociational arrangements have been relatively successful in moderating tension between the secular majority and the religious Zionist and ultra-orthodox minorities (1) In the pre-state period,...

Neo-millet systems and transnational religious movements: the Humayun decrees and church construction in Egypt.
March 22, 2007... There are many legal restraints on activities of Middle Eastern civil society that vary from place to place and fit generally into a restrictive model attributed to numerous causes. Among these, the insulation provided by rentier revenue...

Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen. By Jillian Schwedler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 252pp. $80.00. Shortly after Hamas's surprise electoral victory in January 2006, a widespread public debate...

Humanity Before God: Contemporary Faces of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Ethics.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Humanity before God: Contemporary Faces of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Ethics. Edited by William Schweiker, Michael A. Johnson, and Kevin Jung. Minneapolis, Minn.: Augsburg Fortress Press, 2006. 336 pp. $22.00 paper. Do Judaism,...

The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Cultural Roots of American lslamicism. By Timothy Marr. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 309 pp. $24.99. The lower case term "islamicism" denotes for Marr "Islamic orientalism" that essentializes Islam, usually in distorted...

The Trial of Joan of Arc.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Trial of Joan of Arc. Translated by Daniel Hobbins. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005.251pp. $24.95. Joan of Arc numbers among the very few medieval people known to the general public. While medievalists may complain...

Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon. By Mark Lederer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 361pp. $90.00 paper. Students are usually uncomfortable writing about the history of psychiatry in the...

Religion in an Expanding Europe.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Religion in an Expanding Europe. Edited by Timothy A. Byrnes and Peter J. Katzenstein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 352pp. $34.99. Anyone interested in religion's socio-political implications in contemporary Europe will find...

The Orthodox Church and Civil Society in Russia.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Orthodox Church and Civil Society in Russia. By Wallaee L. Daniel. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. 251pp. $29.95. Wallace Daniel, professor of history at Baylor University, has written a moving and learned book...

Icons and Power: The Mother of God in Byzantium.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Icons and Power: The Mother of God in Byzantium. By Bissera V. Pentcheva. University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. 302pp. $60.00. Recent scholarship associated with exhibitions displaying Byzantine icons, i.e....

Catholicism and Religious Freedom.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Catholicism and Religious Freedom. Edited by Kenneth L. Grasso and Robert P. Hunt. Lanham, Md.: Roman & Littlefield, 2006. 258pp. $65.00 cloth; $26.95 paper. This book is a welcome contribution to the subject of Catholicism and Religious...

Is There a Culture War? A Dialogue on Values and America Public Life.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Is There a Culture War? A Dialogue on Values and America Public Life. By James Davison Hunter and Alan Wolfe. Edited with an introduction by E. J. Dionne, Jr., and Michael Cromartie. Comments by Gertrude Himmelfarb and Morris P. Fiorina....

Religious Interests in Community Conflict: Beyond the Culture Wars.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Religious Interests in Community Conflict: Beyond the Culture Wars. Edited by Paul A. Djupe and Laura R. Olson. Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2007. 341pp. $34.95. Paul A. Djupe and Laura R. Olson's Religious Interests in Community...

America's Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... America's Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage. By Daniel R. Pinello. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 211pp. $19.95 paper. This is a fascinating book about the values, beliefs, emotions, and strategies of participants in America's...

Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures. By Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI). San Francisco, Calif.: Ignatius Press, 2006. 116 pp. $14.95. Values in a Time of Upheaval. By Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI). New York: Crossroad...

Willing the Good: Jesus, Dissent, and Desire.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Willing the Good: Jesus, Dissent, and Desire. By Paula M. Cooey. Minneapolis, Minn.: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2006. 220pp. $20.00. Dissent has been a generative force within Christianity since its earliest days, Paula M. Cooey argues....

The Choice Principle: The Biblical Case for Legal Toleration.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Choice Principle: The Biblical Case for Legal Toleration. By Andy G. Olree. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2006. 274pp. $37.00. In The Choice Principle, Andy Olree presents an evangelical theory of libertarianism by...

In Pursuit of the Almighty's Dollar: A History of Money and American Protestantism.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... In Pursuit of the Almighty's Dollar: A History of Money and American Protestantism. By James Hudnut-Beumler. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xviii + 259pp. $29.95. James Hudnut-Beumler advances the interesting...

A Reader in New Religious Movements.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... A Reader in New Religious Movements. Edited by George Chryssides and Margaret Wilkins. London: Continuum, 2006. 432pp. $42.95 paper. This is an excellent anthology and sourcebook on a number of prominent new religious movements, containing...

New Age and Neo-Pagan Religions in America.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... New Age and Neo-Pagan Religions in America. By Sarah M. Pike. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 220pp. np. New Age and Neo-Pagan Religions in America introduces the reader to a non-traditional spiritual religious dimension. Pike...

Quest for Harmony: Native American Spiritual Traditions.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Quest for Harmony: Native American Spiritual Traditions. By William A. Young. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Publishing, 2006. 420pp. $36.00. In 1953, Kenneth Scott Latorette published a history of Christianity containing 1560 pages. This...

Religion and Public Life in the Mountain West: Sacred Landscapes in Transition.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Religion and Public Life in the Mountain West: Sacred Landscapes" in Transition. Edited by Jan Shipps and Mark Silk. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, 2004. 166pp. $19.95 paper. A second installment in the Religion by Region series,...