Journal of Church and State back issues from June 2005:
America's "forsaken roots": the use and abuse of founders' quotations.
Jun 22, 2005; ... I. INTRODUCTION The Christian Right, frustrated by its inability to change American culture through political means over the last three decades, continues to engage in multiple strategies to recapture the supposedly vanishing "Christian roots" of the nation. Among these ...
"I am an atheist and a Muslim": Islam, communism, and ideological competition.
Jun 22, 2005; ... A thousand years of tyranny are better than one night of anarchy. --al-Mawardi INTRODUCTION When do religious and political ideologies come into conflict? Political and religious systems of belief are closely tied throughout history, sometimes working in tandem and ...
Peace, pastors, and politics: tactics of resistance in East Germany.
Jun 22, 2005; ... Over a decade after reunification, East German history remains a highly politicized and contested terrain, not least concerning the political role of the Protestant church. Did the church play an oppositional, democratizing role, contributing to the alleged "Protestant Revolution" and the ...
Elizabethan Catholics and Romans 13: a chapter in the history of political polemic.(doctrine of obedience)
Jun 22, 2005; ... The two fundamental political principles of the early Reformation were that all secular authority was derived from God, and that, because of this, armed rebellion against leaders was wrong. Accordingly, a commonly-cited passage in political pamphlets from this time was St. Paul's most ...
Russian Orthodox Christians and their orientation toward church and state.
Jun 22, 2005; ... As the Soviet Union began to experiment with policies of liberalization under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev, the church was one of the first social institutions to benefit from the Kremlin's new policies. By 1988, Gorbachev had agreed to grant the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) the ...
God on stage? Religious themes in public educational theatre.
Jun 22, 2005; ... In January 2004, Covington High in New Orleans endured a censorship controversy. The drama teacher proposed that one of the school dramas for the coming year be the 1971 off-Broadway musical, Godspell, a story inspired by the teachings of Jesus Christ. The school's drama team performed the ...
Alternative viewpoints about biological origins as taught in public schools.
Jun 22, 2005; ... I. INTRODUCTION The teaching of biological origins Fin public schools is an increasingly controversial issue in American education and the courts. The U.S. Supreme Court has declared that proper treatment of origins education is vital to protecting religious freedom. (1) Yet ...
The Great Divide: The Failure of Islam and the Triumph of the West.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... The Great Divide: The Failure of Islam and the Triumph of the West. By Alvin J. Schmidt. Boston, Mass.: Regina Orthodox Press, 2004. 332pp. $19.95. This book is a polemic against Islam and an apologia for Christianity. It is comprised of eleven chapters and two appendices as ...
"Sicques, Tigers or Thieves": Eyewitness Accounts of the Sikhs, 1606-1809.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... "Sicques, Tigers or Thieves": Eyewitness Accounts of the Sikhs (1606-1809). Edited by Amandeep Singh Madra and Parmjit Singh. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 391 pp. $27.95 paper. This title is from East India Company man George Forster's letter of 1783, in which he ...
Consuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Consuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine. By Suzanne K. Kaufman. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2005. 255 pp. $34.95. During a visit to France in the early 1980s, I accompanied my aunt and uncle on their pilgrimage to Lourdes. I recall being simultaneously ...
Jehovah's Witnesses and the Third Reich: Sectarian Politics Under Persecution.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Jehovah's Witnesses and The Third Reich. Sectarian Politics under Persecution. By M. James Penton. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004, xxii+412 pp. $75.00 cloth, $35.00 paper. Of the many controversies that surround the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (WBTS), the ...
"Conservative Revolutionaries": Protestant and Catholic Churches in Germany After Radical Political Change.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... "Conservative Revolutionaries": Protestant and Catholic Churches in Germany after Radical Political Change. Monographs in German History, Vol. 14. By Barbara Theriault. New York: Berghahn, 2004. vii+188 pp. $50.00. Thanks to a series of recent journal articles, Barbara ...
The Costa Rican Catholic Church, Social Justice, and the Rights of Workers: 1979-1996.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... The Costa Rican Catholic Church, Social Justice, and the Rights of Workers, 1979-1996. By Dana Sawchuk. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004.270 pp. $49.50. Over the past two decades, liberation theology has become a bit stale clue to the fall of communism ...
The Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson: Puritans Divided.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... The Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson: Puritans Divided. By Michael P. Winship. Lawrence, Kans.: The University Press of Kansas, 2005. 168 pp. $14.95. It has been said that if the church is not in conflict with some outside antagonist, then it is fighting among its own ...
Methodism: Empire of the Spirit.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Methodism: Empire of the Spirit. By David Hempton. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. 320 pp. $30.00. In Methodism: Empire of the Spirit, distinguished historian David Hempton follows recent interest in the growth of world Christianity by assessing the global ...
The Formation of the Primitive Baptist Movement.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... The Formation of the Primitive Baptist Movement. By Jeffrey Wayne Taylor. Kitchener, Ontario: Pandora Press, 2004, 225 pp. np. "Hard shell," "foot-washing," or more ominously, "hyper-Calvinistic" is what they have been called dismissively. But there is more to the Primitive ...
Hope's Promise: Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Hope's Promise: Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry. By S. Scott Rohrer. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: The University of Alabama Press, 2005. 304 pp. $42.50. Growing up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, this reviewer lived just a few miles from the old settlement of ...
Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War Through the Civil Rights Era.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era. By Paul Harvey. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005. 354 pp. $34.95. In Freedom's Coming, Paul Harvey explores the influence of religion ...
Long March Ahead: African American Churches and Public Policy in Post-Civil Rights America.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Long March Ahead: African American Churches and Public Policy in Post-Civil Bights America. Edited by R. Drew Smith. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. 239 pp. $29.95. The involvement of black churches in public affairs and public policy matters remains one of those ...
America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia. By Seth Jacobs. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. 381 pp. $22.95. The Vietnam War has been the subject of thousands of books and articles. This rich and growing ...
Religion and Public Life in the Southern Crossroads: Showdown States.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Religion and Public Life in the Southern Crossroads: Showdown States. Religion by Region Series. Edited by William Lindsey and Mark Silk. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, 2005. np. This very helpful little book is the fifth number in a projected series of nine books on the ...
One Nation Under Law: America's Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... One Nation Under Law: America's Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State. By Mark Douglas McGarvie. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004. 256 pp. $38.00. This unique and valuable study reminds all of us of the complexities of the arrangements ...
Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment: Essential Rights and Liberties.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment: Essential Rights and Liberties, 2nd ed. By John Witte Jr. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2005. 322 pp. $29.00 paper. Thomas Jefferson, architect of the wall of separation between church and state, once wrote that "[h]istory ...
Philosophy of the United States: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Philosophy of the United States: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. By Gordon L. Anderson. St. Paul, Minn.: Paragon House Publishers, 2004. 320 pp. $19.95 paper. This is a theoretical book in which Gordon Anderson explores the history and political necessity of a ...
The New Religious Movements Experience in America.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... The New Religious Movements Experience in America. By Eugene V. Gallagher. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2004, 297 pp. $55.00. This is an erudite and well-written book, designed to serve as a text for courses in new religious movements or modern American religions. The ...
Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Religious and Secular Perspectives.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Religious and Secular Perspectives. Edited by Sohail H. Hashmi and Steven P. Lee. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiii+533 pp. $85.00. Eschatological black humor infects this book which in all other respects is learned, ...
An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion and American Empire.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion & American Empire. By Michael Northcott. London: I. B. Taurus & Co., 2004. 206 pp. $35.00. Americans have been so full of anger and fear and so intent on revenge since the 9/11 terrorist attacks that perhaps they are not in the ...
Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide. By Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xv+329 pp. n.p. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, philosophers and emerging social scientists traced the idea of "secularization," the ...
Democracy and Religion: Free Exercise and Diverse Visions.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Democracy and Religion: Free Exercise and Diverse Visions. Edited by David Odell-Scott. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 2004. 384 pp. np. Usually edited works--especially those based on conference papers--have two or three good essays and a host of mediocre ones ....
A Church Drawing Near: Spirituality and Mission in a Post-Christian Culture.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... A Church Drawing Near: Spirituality and Mission in a Post-Christian Culture. By Paul Avis. London: T & T Clark International, 2003.29.7 pp. np. The oft-quoted refrain that the cultural landscape in the West has changed is prescient. Much has been written about the turn to the ...
Encyclopedia of Religious Freedom.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Encyclopedia of Religious Freedom. Edited by Catharine Cookson, general editor. With Satvinder Singh Juss and Derek H. Davis, associate editors. New York: Routledge, 2003.555 pp. $125.00. Reference works play an important part in offering the work of scholars in a way that is ...