Journal of Church and State articles from September 2001

Journal of Church and State archives from September 2001

Is the Supreme Court hostile to religion? Good News Club et al. v. Milford Central School (2001) and Santa Fe v. Doe (2000). (Editorial)
September 22, 2001... It is getting to be predictable. Just about the time summer arrives, the Supreme Court hands down a major church-state decision. To some people what is not so predictable is where the Court will land. When the Supreme Court delivered its June...

A return to civility: Roger Williams and public discourse in America.
September 22, 2001... The presidential election of 2000 was remarkable in the razor-thin margin that ultimately separated electoral victor from the defeated candidate, yet in another way the contest was disappointingly ordinary, namely, in the uncivil tone that...

Abortion, the Constitution, and metaphysics.
September 22, 2001... In recent issues, the Journal of Church and State has hosted within its pages a debate over abortion polity and its relation to ethics. In his essay, Francis J. Beckwith provided a critical response to the initial essay authored by Paul...

Mr. Jefferson, a mammoth cheese, and the "wall of separation between church and state": A bicentennial commemoration.
September 22, 2001... Two hundred years ago this New Year's Day, residents in the Federal City witnessed an extraordinary spectacle unlike any witnessed before or since in the capital city famed for its political showmen and ceremony. With great fanfare, President...

Putting old wine into new bottles: the East German Protestant Church's desire to reform state socialism, 1989-90.
September 22, 2001... The most striking image of state socialism's collapse throughout Eastern Europe remains the sight of East and West Berliners triumphantly scaling the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989. The fall of the Berlin Wall proved to be the most dramatic...

The role of the Catholic church and other religious institutions in the Guatemalan peace process, 1980-1996.
September 22, 2001... Between 1980 and 1996, the Guatemalan Catholic Church, along with other religious institutions, played a major role in that country's peace process (which ultimately ended a thirty-five year struggle between the government and an armed...

Religion and the Common Good Catholic Contributions to Building Community in a Liberal Society.
September 22, 2001... Religion and the Common Good: Catholic Contributions to Building Community in a Liberal Society. By Brian Stiltner. Lanham, Md.: Bowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999. 203 pp. $29.95. What contributions can religious traditions make...

Common Truths: New Perspectives on Natural Law.
September 22, 2001... Common Truths: New Perspectives on Natural Law. Edited by Edward B. McLean. Wilmington, Del.: ISS Books, 2000. 345 pp. $24.95. In a poll of American attitudes, New York Times Magazine (7 May 2000) analysts concluded that Americans no longer...

Politics, Theology and History.
September 22, 2001... Politics, Theology and History. By Raymond Plant. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xv + 380 pp., n.p. Questions regarding the place of religious discourse in public policy decisionmaking seem to arise most logically in...

Fundamental Rights: History of a Constitutional Doctrine.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Fundamental Rights: History of a Constitutional Doctrine. By Milton R. Konvitz. New Brnnswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2001. 165 pp. $32.95. Milton Konvitz, emeritus professor of law at Cornell University, traces the historical...

Religious Freedom: History, Cases, and Other Materials on the Interaction of Religious and Government.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Religious Freedom: History, Cases, and Other Materials on the Interaction of Religion and Govern,vent. By John T. Noonan, Jr. and Edward McGlynn Gaffney, Jr. New York: Foundation Press, 2001. 998 pp. $60.00. Religious Freedom is an...

Why Atheism?(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Why Atheism?. By George H. Smith. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2000. 250 pp. $19.00 paper. The main thrust of George H. Smith's Why Atheism? is distilled into one question in the introductory chapter: "Why should anyone, especially the...

The Religious Heritage of Japan: Foundations for Cross-Cultural Understanding in a Religiously Plural World.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... The Religious Heritage of Japan: Foundations for Cross-Cultural Understanding in a Religiously Plural World. Edited by John Ross Carter. Portland, Ore.: Book East, 1999. 238 pp. $21.95. Introductory texts to religious traditions are usually...

Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity: The Secular-Religious Impass.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity: The Secular-Religious Impass. By Asher Cohen and Bernard Susser. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 167 pp. $36.00. Before the eruption of the present intifada, one of the...

Muslim Rights and Plights: The Religious Liberty Situation of a Minority in Sweden.
September 22, 2001... Muslim Rights and Plights: The Religious Liberty Situation of a Minority in Sweden. By Jonas Alwall. Lund, Sweden: Lund University Press, 1998. 270 pp. h.p. paper. While, at first glance, these two works would seem to have little in common...

Putting Islam to Work: Education, Politics, and Religious Transformation in Egypt.
September 22, 2001... Putting Islam to Work: Education, Politics, and Religious Transformation in Egypt. By Gregory Starrett. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1998. 308 pp. $22.00 paper. While, at first glance, these two works would seem to have...

The Cult of St. Thecla: A Tradition of Women's Piety in Late Antiquity.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... The Cult of St. Thecla: A Tradition of Women's Piety in Late Antiquity. By Stephen J. Davis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 288 pp. $70.00. St. Thecla of Seleucia was one of the most venerated female saints in the early Church,...

The Templars.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... The Templars. By Piers Paul Read. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. 350 pp. n.p. The Knights of the Temple continue to exercise a fascination for a broad audience nearly seven hundred years after their suppression, and there seems to be...

Liberty and Religion: Church and State in Leiden's Reformation, 1572-1620.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Liberty and Religion: Church and State in Leiden's Reformation, 1572-1620. By Christine Kooi. Boston, Mass.: E.J. Brill, 2000. 243 pp. n.p. The issues arising from the historiography of the "urban reformation" in the German territories...

Choosing Death: Suicide and Calvinism in Early Modern Geneva.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Choosing Death: Suicide and Calvinism in Early Modern Geneva. Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies Series. By Jeffrey R. Watt. Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 2001. xiv + 361 pp. $45.00 paper. In the fifty-eight years from...

The English Civil War and Revolution: A Sourcebook.
September 22, 2001... The English Civil War and Revolution: A Sourcebook. By Keith Lindley. London: Routledge, 1998. 201 pp. $20.95 paper. The seventeenth-century English scene has long been understood as the birthplace of modern nonconformity, many political...

The Acts of the Witnesses: The Autobiography of Lodowick Muggleton and Other Early Muggletonian Writings.
September 22, 2001... The Acts of the Witnesses: The Autobiography of Lodowick Muggleton and Other Early Muggletonian Writings. By T.L. Underwood. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 260 pp. $49.95. The seventeenth-century English scene has long been...

Secularisation in Western Europe: 1848-1914.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Secularisation in Western Europe, 1848-1914. By Hugh McLeod. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. 399 pp. $65.00 cloth; $19.95 paperback. Defending the social, political, and economic status quo has been one of the most lamentable...

The Forgotten: Catholics of the Soviet Empire from Lenin Through Stalin.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... The Forgotten: Catholics of the Soviet Empire from Lenin through Stalin. By Christopher Lawrence Zugger. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2001. xxxiv + 556 pp. n.p. It is well known that Soviet Russia was an empire devoted to...

Roger Williams: Prophet of Liberty.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Roger Williams: Prophet of Liberty. By Edwin S. Gaustad. New York: Oxford University Press. 144 pp. $24.00. Written as an "Oxford Portrait" at a level intended to appeal to older children and young adults, Edwin S. Gaustad's Roger...

Christian America? What Evangelicals Really Want.
September 22, 2001... Christian America? What Evangelicals Really Want. By Christian Smith. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2000. 257 pp. $27.50. This book is a dual-effect medicine: it gives liberal readers a peaceful night's sleep, and...

The Baptist Reformation.
September 22, 2001... The Baptist Reformation. By Jerry Sutton. Nashville, Tenn.: Broadman and Holman Publishers, 2000. 542 pp. h.p. James T. Draper, Jr., the publisher, in the Foreword for Sutton is half correct in his evaluation. He says that Sutton "writes...

Suburban Warriors: The Origins of New American Right.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right. By Lisa McGirr. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. 416 pp. $29.95. This rich historical account of the rise of the conservative movement in Orange County, California...

Alternative American Religious.
September 22, 2001... Alternative American Religions. By Stephen J. Stein. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 156 pages, n.p. Stephen Stein's volume, Alternative American Religions, is a solid addition to the Religion in American Life series, edited by...

Albert Schweitzer, 2d ed.
September 22, 2001... James Brabazon. Albert Schweitzer, 2nd ed. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2000. In this revised and expanded edition of his previously acclaimed biography of the great humanitarian, James Brabazon has included recently found...

Rochester Cathedral: 604-1540, Architectural History.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... J. Philip McAleer. Rochester Cathedral, 604-1540: An Architectural History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. This book employs what some have termed "above ground" archeology to generate an architectural history of Great...

Family: A Christian Social Perspective.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Lisa Sowle Cahill. Family: A Christian Social Perspective. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2000. Lisa SoMe Cahill asks the question, What is a Christian family? Her response is that it is neither a formulaic framework of man + Wife +...

Houses of God: Region, Religion, and Architecture in the United States.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Peter W. Williams. House of God: Region,Religion, & Architecture in the United States. Urbana & Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1997, 2000. Writing upon the assumption that "regionalism remains a valuable organizing principle...

Transient and Permanent: The Transcendentalists Movement and Its Contexts.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Charles Capper and Conrad Edick Wright, eds. Transient and Permanent: The Transcendentalists Movement and Its Contexts. Boston, Mass.: Massachussetts Historical Society, 1999. This collection of essays is an effort to bring together...

The Oxford Treatise and Disputation on the Eucharist: 1549.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Peter Martyr Vermigli. The Oxford Treatise and Disputation On the Eucharist, 1549. Joseph C. McLelland, trans, and ed. Volume LVI Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies. Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 2000. Shortly after his...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, vol. 4, Discipleship.
September 22, 2001... Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Discipleship. Geffrey B. Kelly and John D. Godsey, eds. and Barbara Green and Reinhard Krauss, trans. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2001. (Volume 4 of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Wayne Whitson Floyd, Jr., general...

The Early Works of Orestes A. Browson, vol. 1, The Universalist Years: 1826-29.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Patrick W. Carey, ed. The Early Works of Orestes A. Brownson, Volume I: The Universalist Years, 1826-29. Milwaukee, Wis.: Marquette University Press, 2000. This volume of essays is the first in a seven-volume set of Brownson's early...

Catholic Power and Catholicism as a Component of Modern Polish National Identity: 1863-1918.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Konrad Sadkowski. Catholic Power and Catholicism as a component of Modern Polish National Identity, 1863-1918. Seattle, Wash.: Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, 2001. Konrad Sadkowski addresses the question...

Notes on church-state affairs. (Features).
September 22, 2001... AFGHANISTAN Taliban radio reported on 5 August that authorities had arrested sixteen Afghans and eight foreigners employed by Shelter Now International for allegedly seeking converts to Christianity. Shelter Now International is operated...