Journal of Church and State articles from September 1998

Journal of Church and State archives from September 1998

Rawls and the challenge of theocracy to freedom. (political liberalism of John Rawls)
September 22, 1998... CONFRONTING THE THEOCRAT Theocracy is a major alternative to the liberal political order in the world today, as it was during the period that gave birth to liberalism. Any doubt about the danger in the United States from the threat of...

Pope Pius XI's "encyclical" Humani Generis Unitas against racism and anti-Semitism and the "silence" of Pope Pius XII.
September 22, 1998... In June 1938, the eighty-one-year-old Achille Ratti, who had served as Pope Pius XI since 1922, exasperated by the "exaggerated nationalism" and racism of Nazi Germany, commissioned an encyclical condemning these moral evils. Quickly drawn up...

Towards a comparative treatment of religion: counterhegemonic and gegemonic state-clergy Strategies in religious hierarchies of the Russian Road--Iran, Japan, and Russia.
September 22, 1998... Generally, studies analyzing the role of Islam in the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79 are not fully satisfying. A more illuminating analysis may be achieved by applying the historical and sociological theory of Antonio Gramsci to Islam as...

The political varieties of sacred remembrance: Elie Wiesel and U.S. foreign policy.(Holocaust survivor and writer)
September 22, 1998... Elie Wiesel is one of the most celebrated religious intellectuals of recent decades in American public life. Perhaps the most internationally recognized survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his...

The freedom of religion and conscience in Finland.
September 22, 1998... In Finland, as in many other countries, the development of freedom of religion and conscience has been closely linked with the general socio-cultural situation and changes in it. Religious liberties have materialized gradually, not only in the...

Clinton and the New Covenant: theology shaping a new politics or old politics in religious garb?
September 22, 1998... In 1992, the national Democratic platform(1) bore the rifle, "A New Covenant with the American People." This heading drew upon the vocabulary of the party's nominee for president: William Jefferson Clinton. Clinton had "unveiled his `New...

Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspective.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspective. Edited by Johan D. van der Vyver and John Witte, Jr. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1996. xivii+ 670 pp. $192.50 cloth; $29.95 paper. Although religious freedoms...

Central Asia's New States: Independence, Foreign Policy and Regional Security.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Central Asia's New States: Independence, Foreign Policy and Regional Security. By Martha Brill Olcott. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1996. 202 pp. $19.95 paper. Professor Martha Olcott's slim volume devoted to...

Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History. Edited by Amira El Azhary Sonbol. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1996. 357 pp. $19.95. This volume features a series of eighteen articles by international experts,...

The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe. By Stathis N. Kalyvas. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996. 300 pp. $45.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. Comparative studies of political parties in Europe are few and far between. This fact alone...

German Politics and the Jews: Dusseldorf and Nuremberg, 1910-1933.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... German Politics and the Jews: Dusseldorf and Nuremberg, 1910-1933. By Anthony Kauders. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. 224 pp. $68.00. After more than fifty years of intense scholarship, our understanding of the "Jewish Question" in...

The East German Church and the End of Communism.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... The East German Church and the End of Communism. By John P. Burgess. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 1985 pp. $35.00. As many writers have noted, the Evangelische Kirchen in East Germany had a unique institutional arrangement with...

Religion in the Soviet Union: An Archival Reader.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Religion in the Soviet Union: An Archival Reader. By Felix Corley. New York: New York University Press, 1997. 402 pp. $55.00. Felix Corley has produced a valuable collection of archival documents and other primary sources on the still...

Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity. By Mark A. Noll. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1997. 335 pp. $17.99 paper. Mark Noll has earned a reputation as a prolific scholar and insightful interpreter of the...

Conversion, Politics and Religion in England, 1580-1625.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Conversion, Politics and Religion in England, 1580-1625. By. Michael C. Questier. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 240 pp. $59.95. This book explores the uneasy relationship between "religion" (understood as adherence to...

Godly Clergy in Early Stuart England: The Caroline Puritan Movement, c. 1620-1643.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Godly Clergy in Early Stuart England: The Caroline Puritan Movement, c. 1620-1643. By Tom Webster. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 350 pp. $54.95. This book purports to be a study of the "sociability" of a select group...

Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome. By Patrick Allitt. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997. 343 pp. $35.00. Patrick Allitt gathers the stories of the converts who created the culture that...

Them and Us? Attitudinal Variation Among Churchgoers in Belfast.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Them and Us? Attitudinal Variation Among Churchgoers in Belfast. By Frederick W. Boal, Margaret C. Keane, and David N. Livingstone. Belfast: The Institute of Irish Studies/Queen's University of Belfast, 1997. 240 pp. n.p. Flying in the...

The Catholic Church and Democracy in Chile and Peru.(Review)
September 22, 1998... The Catholic Church and Democracy in Chile and Peru. By Michael Fleet and Brian H. Smith. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. 366 pp. $49.00. This is a comprehensive analysis of the political role of the Catholic church...

Uncivil Rites: American Fiction, Religion, and the Public Sphere.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Uncivil Rites: American Fiction, Religion, and the Public Sphere. By Robert Detweiler. Urbana and Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1006. x + 250 pp. $29.95 cloth; $17.95 paper. Believing that communities cohere through the...

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Religion and the Founding of the American Republic. By James H. Hutson, with a forward by Jaroslav Pelikan. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1998. 136 pp. $21.95. James H. Hutson, chief of the manuscript division at the Library of...

Saving Old Glory: The History of the American Flag Desecration Controversy.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Saving Old Glory: The History of the American Flag Desecration Controversy. By Robert Justin Goldstein. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996. 267 pp. np. The obsession of Americans with their flag generally bemuses foreign observers. It is...

American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists, and Others.(Review)
September 22, 1998... American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists, & Others. By John George and Laird Wilcox. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Press, 1996. 443 pp. $18.95. Extremism has afflicted the American political culture throughout its...

Re-Creating America: The Ethics of U.S. Immigration and Refugee Policy in a Christian Perspective.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Re-Creating America: The Ethics of U.S. Immigration & Refugee Policy in a Christian Perspective. By Dana W. Wilbanks. Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, 1996. 231 pp. n.p. Immigrants, including refugees, have over the past twenty years...

The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power. By D. Michael Quinn. Salt Lake City, Ut.: Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, 1997. 928 pp. $44.95. This is the second of Quinn's massive two-volume history of the...

Should God Get Tenure?: Essays on Religion and Higher Education.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... Should God Get Tenure?: Essays on Religion & Higher Education. Edited by David W. Gill. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Erdmans Publishing Co., 1997. xvi + 245 pp. $24.00. This book consists of wide-ranging essays from sixteen contributors who...

Notes on church-state affairs.(Review)
September 22, 1998... ABKHAZIA/GEORGIA Authorities arrested and sentenced seven Jehovah's Witnesses for refusing military service. The length of the sentences is not known. Abkhazia rebelled from Georgia in 1992-93. Russia brokered a cease-fire in 1994, but the...