Journal of Church and State articles from September 2004

Journal of Church and State archives from September 2004

A commentary on the Supreme Court's "equal treatment" doctrine as the new constitutional paradigm for protecting religious liberty.
September 22, 2004... Until recently, the Supreme Court's analysis of religion cases typically began with a review to determine if either the Establishment or Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment was implicated under the facts of the case. Only after the...

Religious human rights and a democratic state.
September 22, 2004... This century has witnessed the emergence of the struggle for human rights throughout the world, and religious human rights lie at the heart of that struggle. By religious human rights are meant the inherent right of a person in public or in...

The courts and public discourse: the case of gay marriage.
September 22, 2004... It has been noted by scholars who compare the American legal system with that of Western Europe that the United States Supreme Court performs an educational role that is probably more important than its role in adjudicating particular...

Church, state, and physician-assisted suicide.
September 22, 2004... In 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Vacco v. Quill and Washington v. Glucksberg that state laws prohibiting physician-assisted suicide WAS) in New York and Washington respectively are not unconstitutional, overturning decisions by the...

The Jehovah's Witnesses and their plan to expand first amendment freedoms.
September 22, 2004... In 1942, University of Pennsylvania law professors John E. Mulder and Marvin Comisky concluded that "seldom, if ever, in the past, has one individual or group been able to shape the course, over a period of time, of any phase of our vast body...

Between restoration and liberation: theopolitical contributions and responses to U.S. foreign policy in Israel/Palestine.
September 22, 2004... Throughout the Cold War era and into the present time, U.S. censure of Israeli policies has been rare. (1) When expressed, official criticisms are sparing and muted, the most recent examples of this phenomenon being the U.S. responses to...

From nationalism to internationalism: civil religion and the festival of Saint Catherine of Siena, 1940-2003.
September 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION Despite the fact that Robert Bellah concluded his seminal essay of 1967 on "Civil Religion in America" with the hope that, in time a "vital international symbolism" might be incorporated into American civil religion, or even...

A History of Israel and the Holy Land.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... A History of Israel and the Holy Land. Edited by Michael Avi-Yonah. New York: Continuum, 2003, 376 pp. $24.95 paper. This highly informative work divides the history of the land and the nation of Israel into eight manageable segments,...

Wahhabism: A Critical Essay.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Wahhabism: A Critical Essay. By Hamid Algar. Oneonta, N. Y.: Islamic Publications International), 96 pp. $12.95. The growing influence of Wahhabism as a peculiar interpretation of Islamic doctrine and practice has brought to the forefront...

Korean Shamanism: The Cultural Paradox.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Korean Shamanism: The Cultural Paradox. By Chongho Kim. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing. 248 pp. $29.95 paper. This work is a volume in Ashgate's Vitality of Indigenous Religions series and it represents a reworking of Kim's...

Catholic Theologians in Nazi Germany.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Catholic Theologians in Nazi Germany. By Robert A. Krieg. New York: Continuum, 2004. 256 pp., $24.95 paper. This excellent book profiles five highly regarded German Catholic theologians whose careers were at their height during the Nazi...

Repression und Selbstbehauptung: Die Zeugen Jehovas unter der NS- und der SED-Diktatur.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Repression und Selbstbehauptung. Die Zeugen Jehovas unter der NS- und der SED-Diktatur (Repression and Self-preservation. The Jehovah's Witnesses under the NS- and SED-dictatorship). Edited by Gerhard Besier and Clemens Vollnhals. Series...

How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West. By Perez Zagorin. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. 371pp. $29.95. This is an altogether excellent, readable, and comprehensive survey of the development of...

The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield and the Wesleys.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield and the Wesleys. By Mark A. Noll. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2003. 330 pp. $23.00. If evangelicals have been charged as anti-intellectuals, then rightly also are they...

Brahmin Prophet: Phillips Brooks and the Path of Liberal Protestantism.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Brahmin Prophet: Phillips Brooks and the Path of Liberal Protestantism. by Cillis J. Harp. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. 237pp. $32.95, paper. Episcopal clergyman Phillips Brooks was one of the nineteenth century's...

Religion in America Since 1945: A History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Religion in America Since 1945: A History. By Patrick Allitt. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. 384pp. $30.00. Anyone who has taught a course in U.S. religious history knows the daunting challenge of adequately dealing with the...

The Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America. Edited by Kimberly Blaker. Plymouth, Michigan: New Boston Books, 2003. 241pp. $24.95 cloth, $15.95 paper. A book that begins by comparing conservative Christians who home...

A Public Faith: Evangelicals and Civic Engagement.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... A Public Faith: Evangelicals and Civic Engagement. Edited by Michael Cromartie. Lanham, Md.: Roman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003. 269 pp. $60.00 cloth; $24.95 paper. This work, a product of the Evangelical Studies project of the...

Separation of Church and State.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Separation of Church and State. By Philip Hamburger. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. 528 pp. $19.95. The U.S. Supreme Court has often been accused of engaging in historical scholarship without a license. For that reason,...

Religion on Trial: How Supreme Court Trends Threaten Freedom of Conscience in America.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Religion on Trial: How Supreme Court Trends Threaten Freedom of Conscience in America. By Phillip E. Hammond, David W. Machacek, and Eric Michael Mazur. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. 160 pp. $19.95. The first line of this slim...

Constitutional Law: The Religion Clauses.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Constitutional Law: The Religion Clauses. By David O. Conkle. New York: Foundation Press, 2003. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...." Simple enough or so the...

Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era. By John P. Bartkowski and Helen A. Regis. New York: New York University Press, 2003.214 pp. np. John P. Bartkowski, Associate Professor of Sociology at Mississippi...

Living Spirit, Living Practice: Poetics, Politics, Epistemology.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Living Spirit, Living Practice: Poetics, Politics, Epistemology. By Ruth Frankenberg. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2004. ix+308. Various religious traditions have produced works describing how faith and daily life can be...

Bonds of Imperfection: Christian Politics, Past and Present.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... O'Donovan, Oliver and Joan Lockwood O'Donovan. Bonds of Imperfection: Christian Politics Past and Present. Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2004. 320 pp. $35.00 cloth. Oliver O'Donovan and Joan Lockwood O'Donovan offer an insightful and much...

Fidelity of Heart: An Ethic of Christian Virtue.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Fidelity of Heart: An Ethic of Christian Virtue. By James Gilman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, 214pp. np. James Gilman invites ethicists, philosophers, and serious students of public morality to contemplate the disparity between...