Journal of Church and State articles from September 2005

Journal of Church and State archives from September 2005

Is atheism a religion? Recent judicial perspectives on the constitutional meaning of "religion".(Kaufman v. McCaughtry)
September 22, 2005... A recent case handed down by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals holds that atheism is entitled to the same treatment that traditional religions receive under the Constitution. The case, Kaufman v. McCaughtry (2005), has many religious groups...

Social covenants: the solution to the crisis of religion and state in Israel?
September 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION For the last twenty years the relationship between religion and state in Israel has been in a state of worsening crisis. There has always been a deep ideological and social divide between religious and secular Jews, with the...

Conditional liberty: the flag salute before Gobitis and Barnette.
September 22, 2005... In the 1940 landmark case, Minersville School District v. Gobitis, (1) the Supreme Court of the United States first heard arguments on the right of children to refuse to salute the American flag in public schools. Fifteen years earlier, these...

Friends like these: George W. Bush and federal aid to nonpublic schools.
September 22, 2005... On 9 April 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the nation's first comprehensive initiative to provide federal aid to public schools. Title I of the Act created programs for "educationally...

Jehovah's Witnesses, blood transfusions, and the tort of misrepresentation.
September 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION (1) Ask an American judge or doctor what he (or she) knows about the medical beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses. The response will probably be that Witnesses devoutly refuse to accept blood transfusions for either themselves or...

Disputes between state and religion over medical treatment for minors.
September 22, 2005... PEDIATRICS, RELIGION, AND PATERNALISM Thankfully, they are not everyday occurrences, but the controversies that arise when parents try to deny their children medical treatment, on religious grounds, are newsworthy enough that perhaps few...

"Begin to grow rude and clamorous": English politics and the battle over church architecture, 1714-1760.
September 22, 2005... The hoary Majesty of Spades appears; Puts forth one manly Leg, to sight reveal'd, The rest, his many-colour'd Robe conceal'd. The Rebel-Knave, that dares his Prince engage, Proves the just Victim of his Royal Rage. Alexander Pope, The Rape...

Empathy and Moral Development: Implications for Caring and Justice.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Empathy and Moral Development: Implications for Caring and Justice. By Martin L. Hoffman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 342 pp. $17.99 paper. Modernistic moral teaching is losing its sustaining impact in the postmodern...

A Moral Ontology for a Theistic Ethic: Gathering the Nations in Love and Justice.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... A Moral Ontology for a Theistic Ethic: Gathering the Nations in Love and Justice. By Frank G. Kirkpatric. Ashgate Publishing Company, 2003. 197 pp. $29.95 paper. This book is the outgrowth of Kirkpatric's dialogue with nontheistic and...

Religion in the Liberal Polity.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Religion in the Liberal Polity. Edited by Terence Cuneo. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. np. According to most versions of political liberalism (PL), the government ought to be impartial on metaphysical questions...

Faith in Science: Religion and Public Life.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Faith in Science: Religion & Public Life. Edited by Gabriel R. Ricci. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers. 2005. 120 pp. $24.95 cloth, $14.50 paper. The essays in this book continue the debate setting the conception of nature as...

Religion and Security: The New Nexus in International Relations.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Religion & Security: The New Nexus in International Relations. Edited by Robert A. Seiple and Dennis R. Hoover. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Little field Publishers, 2004. 198 pp. $22.95. While many books have addressed the role that religion...

Protestant Political Parties: A Global Survey.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Protestant Political Parties. A Global Survey. By Paul Freston. Hampshire: Ahsgate Publishing Ltd., 2004. 175 pp. np. This book, as the subtitle indicates, is a "global survey" of the surprising phenomenon that throughout the world there...

Taking Faith Seriously.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Taking Faith Seriously. Edited by Mary Jo Bane, Brent Coffin, and Richard Higgins. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. 381 pp. $29.95. Ideas about the public role of religion have become more divisive in recent years, tending...

The Truth About Tolerance: Pluralism, Diversity, and the Culture Wars.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Truth About Tolerance: Pluralism, Diversity, and the Culture Wars. By Brad Stetson and Joseph G. Conti. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2005.207 pp. $16.00 paper. Brad Stetson (Azusa Pacific) and Joseph G. Conti (CSU-Fullerton)...

For All Peoples and All Nations: The Ecumenical Church and Human Rights.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... For All Peoples and All Nations: The Ecumenical Church and Human Rights. By John S. Nurser. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2005. 240 pp. $26.95. John S. Nurser's For All Peoples and All Nations is a detailed account of...

Introduction to Mill's Utilitarian Ethics.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Introduction to Mill's Utilitarian Ethics. By Henry R. West. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2004. xi. +216 pages. $55.00. This book on Mill's utilitarianism is a well written, carefully thought out essay dealing with all major...

A Contemporary Anabaptist Theology: Biblical, Historical, Constructive.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... A Contemporary Anabaptist Theology/Biblical, Historical, Constructive. By Thomas N. Finger. Downer's Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2004. 550 pp. $350.00. In this magisterial work, Thomas N. Finger explores and presents the gifts of his...

London and the Restoration: 1659-1683.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... London and the Restoration, 1659-1683. By Gary S. De Krey. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 472 pp. $100.00. This book was a labor of love--or perhaps obsession--for Gary De Krey. It has been in the making for almost...

Religion in Europe at the End of the Second Millennium: A Sociological Profile.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Religion in Europe at the End of the Second Millennium: A Sociological Profile. By Andrew M. Greeley. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2004. 252 pp. np. For earlier generations of historians, both inside and outside of...

Papal Diplomacy and the Quest for Peace: The Vatican and International Organizations from the Early Years to the League of Nations.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Papal Diplomacy and the Quest for Peace: The Vatican and International Organizations from the Early Years to the League of Nations. By Robert John Araujo, S.J. and John A. Lucal, S.J. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University,...

Pope Benedict XVI: A Biography of Joseph Ratzinger.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Pope Benedict XVI: A Biography of Joseph Ratzinger. By John L. Allen, Jr. New York: Continuum, 2005. 340 pp. $29.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. Hearing of this publication in early May 2005, days after the election of Cardnial Joseph Ratzinger as...

Themes in Religion and American Culture.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Themes in Religion and American Culture. Edited by Philip Goff and Paul Harvey. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 389pp. np. paper. Despite the popular impression that the United States has strict separation of...

Christianity and the Mass Media in America: Towards a Democratic Accommodation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Christianity and the Mass Media in America: Towards a Democratic Accommodation. By Quentin J. Schultze. East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press, 2003. 512 pp. $84.95. Concerning Quentin J. Schultze's Christianity and the Mass...

Roger Williams.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Roger Williams. By Edwin S. Gaustad. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 160 pp. $17.95. Edwin Gaustad is one of this generation's great religious historians. He also happens to be the premier authority on Roger Williams. In this...

The Moral Theology of Roger Williams.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Moral Theology of Roger Williams. By James Calvin Davis. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2004. 178 pp. np. James Calvin Davis offers a lucid and much overdue exposition on the historical-theological beliefs of Roger...

Rome in America: Transnational Catholic Ideology from the Risorgimento to Fascism.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Rome in America: Transnational Catholic Ideology from the Risorgimento to Fascism. By Peter R. D'Agostino. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 393 pp. $22.50. Addressing the question, "how has the papacy's...

Toward an Evangelical Public Policy: Political Strategies for the Health of the Nation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Toward an Evangelical Public Policy: Political Strategies for the Health of the Nation. Edited by Ronald J. Sider and Diane Knippers. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 2005. 380 pp. $24.99. The authors of this book represent a cross section...

Religion and Spirituality in the Public School Curriculum.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Religion and Spirituality in the Public School Curriculum. By Ronald D. Anderson. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. 177 pp. $26.95. In Religion and Spirituality in the Public School Curriculum, Ronald Anderson adds a fresh argument to the...

Spirit and Flesh: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Spirit and Flesh: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church. By James M. Ault, Jr. New York: Knopf, 2004. 435 pp. $27.95. If there is a better study of fundamentalism at the local level than Spirit and Flesh, I have not read it. In this book,...

Freedom and the Court: Civil Rights and Liberties in the United States, 8th ed.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Freedom and the Court: Civil Rights and Liberties in the United States, 8th ed. By Henry J. Abraham and Barbara A. Perry. Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2003. University of Virginia professor Henry J. Abraham and Sweetbriar...

Encyclopedia of the Crusades.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Encyclopedia of the Crusades. By Alfred J. Andrea. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2003. Although there has been a steady increase in books discussing the Crusades, Alfred Andrea's Encyclopedia of the Crusades is the comprehensive and...

The Worlds of Medieval Europe.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Worlds of Medieval Europe. By Clifford R. Backman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Boston University History professor Clifford R. Backman discusses the political, societal, and religious intricacies of the European continent...

Lifting up the Poor: A Dialogue on Religion, Poverty, and Welfare Reform.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Lifting Up The Poor: A Dialogue on Religion, Poverty, and Welfare Reform. By Mary Jo Bane and Lawrence M. Mead. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2003. Although politicians often use welfare reform as a political issue in...

Religion and Reconciliation in South Africa.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Religion and Reconciliation in South Africa. Edited by Audrey R. Chapman and Bernard Spong. Philadelphia, Pa.: Templeton Foundation Press, 2003. With the insight and intellect of thirty-three religious leaders of diverse faiths, Religion...

The New Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis and What We Must Do about It.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The New Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About It. By Phyllis Chesler. Hoboken, N.J.: Jossey-Bass, 2003. With daily violence in the Middle East and frequent suicide bombing attacks in Israel, Phyllis Chesler argues in...

Catholics, Politics, and Public Policy: Beyond Left and Right.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Catholics, Politics, and Public Policy: Beyond Left and Right. By Clarke E. Cochran and David Carroll Cochran. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2003. As evident in the 2004 Presidential election, Catholic voters seem undecided on where they...

The Case for Israel.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Case for Israel. By Alan Dershowitz. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2003. Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz argues in The Case for Israel that despite any misdoings by Israel, it remains the bastion of democracy and civil...

The Death of Kings: Royal Deaths in Medieval England.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Death of Kings: Royal Deaths in Medieval England. By Michael Evans. London: Hambledon and London, 2003. In medieval society, the passing of a king was often marked with political uncertainty and great drama. The manner in which the king...

Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism. By Mattias Gardell. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. Mattias Gardell exposes the sinister world of racist organizations and their justifications for their hatred for...

Religion and the Workplace: Pluralism, Spiritualism, Leadership.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Religion and the Workplace: Pluralism, Spirituality, Leadership. By Douglas Hicks. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. As America has become a religious melting pot, the workplace has increasingly become a religiously pluralistic...

The Broken Crescent: The "Threat" of Militant Fundamentalism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Broken Crescent: The "Threat" of Militant Fundamentalism. By Fereydoun Hoveyda. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2003. In The Broken Crescent, Fereydoun Hoveyda examines the reasoning used by Islamic fundamentalists for their...

The Amish and State.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Amish and the State. Edited by Donald B. Kraybill. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. In this latest edition, Donald Kraybill and other legal scholars trace the legal precedents set by one of the most traditional...