Journal of Church and State articles from September 1997

Journal of Church and State archives from September 1997

The Politics of Conversion: Missionary Protestantism and the Jews in Prussia, 1728-1942.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1997... By Christopher Clark. Oxford: clarendon Press, 1995. 340 pp. $59.00. "Ambivalence and tribulations," Christopher Clark concludes, "dogged the missionary enterprise in Prussia" (p. 303). In this superb study, Clark recounts the labored course...

Paths of Emancipation: Jews, States and Citizenship.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1997... Edited by Pierre Birnbaum and Ira Katznelson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995. 308 pp. $55.00. There are numerous studies of the emancipation of the Jews in various European lands. What justifies yet another survey-oriented...

Jewish State or Israeli Nation?(Brief Article)
September 22, 1997... By Boas Evron. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1995. 269 pp. $23.95. Over the years, many volumes have been published dealing with the secular nature of the State of Israel and the demands placed upon it by that body of theory...

Power Through Weakness: Paul's Understanding of the Christian Ministry in 2 Corinthians.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1997... Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 86. By Timothy B. Savage. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 251pp. $54.95. Savage's study is an extensively revised and updated version of his 1987 Cambridge University...

Humanism and the Rhetoric of Toleration.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1997... By Gary Remer. University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvannia State University Press, 1996. 318 pp. $45.00. In this book Gary Remer documents several essential characteristics of humanism and its advocacy of limited toleration of religious debate...

Responsibility and Christian Ethics.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1997... By William Schweiker. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 255 pp. $54.95. In this book, William Schweiker presents "an integrated ethics of responsibility" that "articulates the meaning of Christian faith, answers basic moral...

Justice and Christian Ethics.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1997... By E. Clinton Gardner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 179 pp. $49.95. A problem one encounters in a society where only some members are committed to a particular theological tradition, is that of coordinating public actions...

The Desire of the Nations: Rediscovering the Roots of Political Theology.
September 22, 1997... By Oliver O'Donovan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xii + 304 pp. $59.95. From Aristotle and Augustine through Stanley Hauerwas and Alisdair MacIntyre, philosophers and theologians have sought to articulate the connections...

The Myth of Democracy.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1997... By Tage Lindbom. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996. 130 pp. $14.00 paper. "Who will rule, God or man?" This is the question Tage Lindbom asks in this book. The question, he suggests, sums up the dilemma of...

Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1997... By Michael J. Sandel. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. 417 pp. $24.95. The author of this thoughtful book, a professor of government at Harvard University, asserts that contemporary political discourse in America reflects...

Law's Promise, Law's Expression: Visions of Power in the Politics of Race, Gender, and Religion.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1997... By Kenneth L. Karst. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1993. 321 pp. $30.00. Karst, a constitutional law scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles, in an extended essay explores the power of law pertaining to the ongoing...

Criminal Churchmen in the Age of Edward III: The Case of Bishop Thomas de Lisle.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1997... By John Aberth. University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania University Press, 1996. 280 pp. $45.00. To say that Thomas de Lisle, bishop of Ely from 1345 to 1361, was atypical of the fourteenth-century English episcopate is something of an...

Donne and the Politics of Conscience in Early Modern England.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1997... By Meg Lota Brown. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995. 159 pp. $68.00. This fine addition to Studies in the History of Christian Thought, a series edited by Heiko Oberman, focuses on John Donne (1573-1631), the English poet and Anglican preacher, and...

Religion and Society in England, 1850-1914.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1997... By Hugh McLeod. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 267 pp. $39.95 cloth; $18.95 paper. Religion and Society in England is one of three published works in the Social History in Perspective Series, which examines different issues in modern...

The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1997... By Dale K. Van Kley. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1996. 400 pp. $35.00. Dale Van Kley's book is at once a comprehensive overview of the major religious controversies of Old Regime France, and an interpretation of those events...

The Christian Churches and the Democratisation of Africa.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1997... Studies of Religion in Africa, XII. Edited by Paul Gifford. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995. xi + 301 pp. $59.95. This volume focuses on the role that Christian churches have played in Africa's democratization movements since the late 1980s. The...

Islamic Society and State Power in Senegal: Disciples and Citizens in Fatick.
September 22, 1997... By Leonardo A. Villalon. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 338 pp. $59.95. Leonardo Villalon has written an especially fine analysis of the interaction of political and Islamic forces in contemporary Senegal. The data and...

Organized Religion in the Political Transformation of Latin America.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1997... Edited by Satya R. Pattnayak. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1995. 239 pp. $54.00 cloth; $29.50 paper. This edited volume includes a collection of papers presented at a conference on religion and politics in 1993. Although most of...

Church and State in Canada.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1997... By Albert J. Menendez. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1996. 140 pp. $22.95. This beautifully-produced book is something of a curiosity: its length is modest despite the complexity of the subject; within its limited space, the book...

Religion and Politics in the Early Republic: Jasper Adams and the Church-State Debate.
September 22, 1997... By Daniel L. Dreisbach. Lexington, Ky.: The University Press of Kentucky, 1996. 191 pp. $42.95 cloth; $16.95 paper. In Religion and Politics, Daniel Dreisbach takes the reader back to an 1833 sermon in which jasper Adams, an Episcopalian...

Religion and the Public Schools in 19th Century America: The Contribution of Orestes A. Brownson.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1997... By Edward J. Power. Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press, 1996. 182 pp. $13.95 paper. Edward J. Power, professor of education at Boston College and author of two previous books on the history of Catholic education in the United States, is familiar...

Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1997... By Richard F. Hamm. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. 341pp. $49.95 cloth; 18.95 paper. Richard Hamm examines prohibition from the point of view of law and state development. He is not interested in the Eighteenth...

The Holocaust and Strategic Bombing: Genocide and Total War in the Twentieth Century.
September 22, 1997... By Eric Markusen and David Kopf Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1995. 354 pp. $34.95. Eric Markusen and David Kopf have written a study that few may want to read, but many should. While reading it, I sometimes thought of it as "that awful...

Religion and the Mass Media: Audiences and Adaptations.
September 22, 1997... Edited by Daniel A. Stout and Judith M. Buddenbaum. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications Inc., 1996. 294 pp. $48.00 cloth; $22.95 paper. The most important premise put forth in this gem of a book is that a model for mass communication...

Cease Fire: Searching for Sanity in America's Culture Wars.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1997... By Tom Sine. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1995. 302 pp. $15.00 paper. Tom Sine's book joins a long series of commentaries on today's divisive cultural climate. The book is not intended a academic evaluation, however. Instead, Sine...

Public Attitudes Toward Church and State.
September 22, 1997... By Ted G. Jelen and Clyde Wilcox. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1995. 190 pp. $19.95 paper. This is a sophisticated analysis of public attitudes toward church and state issues by two leading scholars of religion and politics. Studies of...

Evangelicals at the Ballot Box.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1997... By Albert J. Menendez. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1996. 340 pp. $24.95. A recent poll concluded that one of every four voters in the last presidential election was a self-described born-again Christian. For two decades, scholars, have...

Religion and the Culture Wars: Dispatches from the Front.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1997... By John C. Green, James L. Guth, Corwin E. Smidt, and Lyman Kellstedt. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1996. 368 pp. $26.95. Scholars of religion and politics have long relied on the articles of Green, Guth, Smidt, and...

Going for the Jugular: A Documentary History of the SBC Holy War.
September 22, 1997... Compiled and edited by Walter B. Shurden and Randy Shepley. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1996. 281 pp. $35.00. Aptly titled, this volume represents the first published collection of public documents related to the recent controversy...

Russia's new law on religion: progress or regress?(Editorial)
September 22, 1997... On 26 September 1997, Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin signed into law the widely publicized and highly controversial bill, "On Freedom of Conscience and on Religious Associations." This law, which comprehensively regulates...

The wisdom of Solomon as political theology.
September 22, 1997... Ambiguities in the complex account of Solomon's succession and reign in 1 Kings 1-11 evoke questions about the "wisdom" of Solomon's rule and the foundations of legitimacy upon which the hereditary monarchy's authority rested.(1) According to...

Roman Catholicism in today's Russia: the troubled heritage.
September 22, 1997... While the fall of communism brought unprecedented freedom for the Orthodox Church and other religious bodies in Russia, it also created new tensions in their mutual relations. The growing rapprochement since the 1960s between the Moscow...

Religion within the limits of liberalism alone?
September 22, 1997... It is appropriate, however, that citizens apply a kind of separation of church and state in their public use of religious arguments, especially in advocating, laws or public policies that restrict liberty. More specifically, it is contended that,...

Reports from the trenches: a case study of religious freedom issues faced by Wiccans practicing in the United States.
September 22, 1997... Now that the three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials (1692-1992) has passed, it seems appropriate to re-examine the Wiccan experience of religious freedom. While the heretical beliefs of strange Others is no longer good cause to...

Freedom of conscience rights: lessons for Great Britain.
September 22, 1997... The world today is increasingly multicultural and pluralistic. The focus of rights is shifting from the individual to the group. Groups are increasingly demanding recognition of their own interests, which they assert as pluralistic values that...

"God - and a religious president ... (or) Jefferson and no god": campaigning for a voter-imposed religious test in 1800.
September 22, 1997... In the campaign of 1800, William Linn of New York praised Thomas Jefferson as a public servant of extraordinary talents but urged voters to reject the Republican's presidential bid because of his religious beliefs. The Dutch Reformed minister...