Journal of Church and State articles from September 1999

Journal of Church and State archives from September 1999

Kansas schools challenge Darwinism: the history and future of the creationism-evolution controversy in American public education.
September 22, 1999... I. INTRODUCTION The recent decision of the Kansas State Board of Education to de-emphasize the teaching of evolution in the Kansas public schools has recharged the ongoing debate across America about the relative merits of evolution and...

State power and the regulation of Islam in Jordan.
September 22, 1999... Throughout the Middle East, both political movements and governments struggle to control Islamic discourse and practice. Like other religions, Islam can be interpreted in a variety of ways, leading to a process Dale Eickelman and Jarnes...

A theology of the state from the Baha'i teachings.
September 22, 1999... Religious communities of the Western traditions have models of ideal societies under divine role: eschatological mode/s (the Kingdom of God to be created by the messiah), metaphysical models (in which spiritual entities such as angels,...

The Holocaust and the Christians.
September 22, 1999... In July of 1939 1 found myself in Nurnberg, Germany, en route to the First World Christian Youth Conference in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. After supper in a Methodist home, the boy of a particular family--fourteen years of age but already six...

"To avoid a new Kulturkampf": the Catholic Workers' Associations and National Socialism in Weimar-era Bavaria.
September 22, 1999... In 1921, the Federation of South German Catholic Workers' Associations (Verband Suddeutscher katholischer Arbeitervereine, or VSkA), headquartered in Munich and dominated by Bavarian associations, published a report concerning the newly formed...

The politics of regulating religion in Mexico: the 1992 constitutional reforms in historical context.
September 22, 1999... On 28 January 1992, the Mexican national legislature approved changes to the 1917 Constitution and effectively reversed over a century of officially sanctioned hostility to religious organizations. Six months later, the federal government...

Who is a Jew? The American Jewish community in conflict with Israel.
September 22, 1999... Few international relationships are as close as the one between the American Jewish community and the State of Israel. Since before the existence of Israel, American Jews have been instrumental in providing resources, manpower, and moral...

The City of Man.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The City of Man. Pierre Manent. Translated by Marc A. LePain with a foreword by Jean Bethke Elshtain. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. 225 pp. $26.95. In this difficult but laudable work, Pierre Manent explores the...

The Church's Mission to the Gentiles: Acts of the Apostles, Epistles of Paul.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The Church's Mission to the Gentiles: Acts of Apostles, Epistles of Paul. By Naymond H. Keathley. Macon, Ga.: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc., 1999. 1298 pp. $12.00 paper. In this brief book, Professor Keathley has addressed the purpose of...

John Courtney Murray and the Dilemma of Religious Toleration.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... John Courtney Murray and the Dilemma of Religious Toleration. By Keith J. Pavlischek. Kirksville, Mo.: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1994. xiii + 261 pp. np. Scholarly investigation into the thought of John Courtney Murray is nothing...

Man of the Century: The Life and Times of Pope John Paul II.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Man of the Century: The Life and Times of Pope John Paul II. By Jonathan Kwitny. New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1997. 754 pp. $30.00. Jonathan Kwitny, a reporter with The Wall Street Journal, has written one of the most important...

New Wine and Old Bottles: International Politics and Ethical Discourse.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... New Wine and Old Bottles: International Politics and Ethical Discourse. By Jean Bethke Elshtain. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998. xx+81 pp. $14.95 paper. This brief but erudite book contains Jean Bethke's Elshtain's...

When the Powers Fall: Reconciliation in the Healing of the Nations.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... When the Powers Fall: Reconciliation in the Healing of the Nations. By Walter Wink. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 1998. 88pp. This book is the fourth in a series of monographs by Walter Wink, professor of biblical interpretation at...

The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder. By Bassam Tibi. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1998. $20.97. 282pp. $29.95. Bassam Tibi, professor of international relations at the University...

Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries. By Paul Fregosi. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus, 1999. 450 pp. $29.95. Jihad in the West joins a series of other works published in the 1990s (such as Bat Ye'or's The...

Warrant for Genocide: Key Elements of Turko-Armenian Conflict.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Warrant for Genocide: Key Elements of Turko-American Conflict. By Vahakn N. Dadrian. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1999. 214 pp. $35.00. As with all intercommunal conflicts which have resulted in a large number of...

Whose Democracy? Nationalism, Religion, and the Doctrine of Collective Rights in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Whose Democracy? Nationalism, Religion, and the Doctrine of Collective Rights in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe. By Sabrina P. Ramet. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1997. 231 pp. np. Sabrina Ramet offers a timely,...

Christian Social Ethics in Ukraine: The Legacy of Andrei Sheptytsky.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Christian Social Ethics in Ukraine: The Legacy of Andrei Sheptytsky. By Andrii Krawchuk. Ottawa, Ont.: Sheptytsky Institute, 1997. 404 pp. $49.95. For anyone researching the career of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky (1865-1944) or the...

Civic Agendas and Religious Passion: Chalons-sur-Marne During the French Wars of Religion, 1560-1594.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Civic Agendas and Religious Passion: Chalons-sur-Marne during the French Wars of Religion, 1560-1594. By Mark W. Konnert. Kirksville, Mo.: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1997. 182 pp. $40.00. In the last decade of the religious wars,...

Pilgrimage to Puritanism: History and Theology of the Marian Exiles at Geneva 1555-1560.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Pilgrimage to Puritanism: History and Theology of the Marian Exiles at Geneva. 1555-1560. By Dan G. Danner. New York: Peter Lang, 1999. 168 pp. np. In Pilgrimage to Puritanism, Dan G. Danner of the University of Portland seeks to uncover...

Primitive Baptists of the Wiregrass South, 1815 to the Present.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Primitive Baptists of the Wiregrass South, 1815 to the Present. By John G. Crowley. Gainesville, Fla.: University of Florida Press, 1998. 244 pp. 849.95. John Crowley, assistant professor of history at Valdosta State University, Georgia,...

Catholics and American Culture: Fulton Sheen, Dorothy Day, and the Notre Dame Football Team.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Catholics and American Culture: Fulton Sheen, Dorothy Day, and the Notre Dame Football Team. By Mink S. Massa. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1999. 278 pp. $24.95. Between 1945 and 1970 American Catholics moved from their...

Princeton in the Nation's Service: Religious Ideals and Educational Practice, 1868-1928.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Princeton in the Nation's Service: Religious Ideals and Educational Practice, 1868-1928. By P.C. Kemeny. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 353 pp. $45.00. This book fits several niches: the growing literature on the history of...

African-American Religion: Interpretive Essays in Religion and Culture.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... African-American Religion: Interpretive Essays in Religion and Culture. Edited by Timothy E. Fulop and Albert J. Raboteau. New York: Routledge, 1997. 467 pp. $75.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. The gradual yet dramatic unfolding of the religious...

When the Church Bell Rang Racist: The Methodist Church and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... When the Church Bell Rang Racist: The Methodist Church and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama. By Donald E. Collins. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1998. 177 pp. $29.95. Part memoir and part monograph, Donald Collins's When the...

American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving. By Christian Smith. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 323 pp. $16.00 paper. There have been numerous studies concerning the state of religious participation and vitality in...

Without a Prayer: Religious Expression in Public Schools.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Without a Prayer: Religious Expression in Public Schools. By Robert S. Alley. Amherst, N.Y.. Prometheus Books, 1996. 277 pages, np. The debate over the primacy of the religion clauses of the First Amendment is as old as the Constitution...

Judgment Day at the White House: A Critical Declaration Exploring Moral Issues and the Political Use and Abuse of Religion.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Judgment Day at the White House: A Critical Declaration Exploring Moral Issues and the Political Use and Abuse of Religion. Edited by Gabriel Fackre. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999. 190 pp. $12.00. This...

Loving Men: Gay Partners, Spirituality and AIDS.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Loving Men: Gay Partners, Spirituality and AIDS. By Richard P. Hardy. New York: Continuum, 1998. 192 pp. $17.95 paper. Richard Hardy's book, Loving Men, presents a plea for inclusion. Hardy believes that the homosexual community, although...

NOTES ON CHURCH-STATE AFFAIRS.
September 22, 1999... ALGERIA Algeria's new president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, took steps designed to reconcile the military-backed government and the Islamic opposition. His council of ministers agreed to submit to Parliament a law that would allow amnesties for...

RECENT DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS IN CHURCH AND STATE.
September 22, 1999... EDUCATION Barnett, Harold Wayne, Ed.D. "The Frequency of Selected Religious Practices in Mississippi Public Schools and an Assessment of the Legal Knowledge Level of Mississippi Public School Superintendents Concerning Religious Practices...

BOOKS RECEIVED.
September 22, 1999... Alley, Robert S., ed. The Constitution & Religion. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Press, 1999. 545pp. np. Bosmajian, Haig. The Freedom Not to Speak. New York: New York University Press, 1999. 248pp. $38.00 Breger, Marshall J. and David M....