Journal of Church and State

African Christianity: Its Public Role. By Paul Gifford. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1999. 368 pp. $31.95. During the past few decades, many books have been published on African Christianity. Most of them indicate directly or indirectly...

Capitalism and Christianity: The Possibility of Christian Personalism. By Richard C. Bayer. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1999. 167 pp. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Richard Bayer's Capitalism and Christianity is yet another contribution...

Contemporary American Religion, 2 vols. Edited by Wade Clark Roof. New York: MacMillian Reference USA, 2000. 861 pp. $225.00. The preface to this two-volume reference work states that it is "intended as a lexicon of popular religious culture" as it exists...

INTRODUCTION Recent changes in Russian religious legislation have caused concern in many quarters both within and outside Russia. Explanations for these changes have been offered which are based on various assumptions, ranging from an alleged Russian...

Friendship & Society. An Introduction to Augustine's Practical Philosophy. By Donald X. Burt, O.S.A. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999. 239 pp. $18.00. The stated aim of this book is "introducing the thought of Augustine to the...

God Versus Caesar: Belief, Worship, and Proselytizing under the First Amendment. By Martin S. Sheffer. New York: State University of New York Press, 1999. 213 pp. $57.50 cloth, $18.95 paper. God Versus Caesar is Martin S. Sheffer's contributions to the...

For the past decades arguments have been made for the separation of Jews and Palestinians into two states. Based on strategic, practical, and moral considerations these arguments have been supported by Jews and Palestinians across a moderate to liberal...

Just Peacemaking: Ten Practices for Abolishing War. Edited by Glen H. Stassen. Cleveland, Oh., Pilgrim Press, 1998. 209 pp. $16.95. Debates about war tend to focus only on the questions of whether it is ever justified to go to war and, if so, under what...

AFGHANISTAN Muslim hijackers took an India Airlines plane to Afghanistan in December but received no aid from Taliban authorities. Wakil Ahmed Muttawakli, the Taliban foreign minister, said that what the hijackers were doing was against Islam. The Taliban...

Examining the thought of the American founding fathers on any subject is more than just an academic exercise. It is part of the process that citizens of the United States go through in framing public policy and making law. Because of the reverence most...

Religious Freedom and Evangelization in Latin America: The Challenge of Religious Pluralism. Edited by Paul E. Sigmund. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1999. 350 pp. $25.00. Paul Sigmund, a professor of politics at Princeton University, has edited a noteworthy...

Southern Churches in Crisis Revisited. By Samuel S. Hill. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1999. 234 pp. $24.95. One of the towering figures in the study of religion in the southern U.S., Samuel S. Hill, has reissued and reintroduced his...

The Catholic University as Promise and Project: Reflections in a Jesuit Idiom. By Michael J. Burkley, S.J. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1998. 224 pages. np. Rather than a systematic and comprehensive treatment of Catholic higher education,...

UFO Cults and the New Millennium. By William M. Alnor. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1998. 203 pp. np. paper. Millenniums, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements. Edited by Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer. New York: Routledge,...

What in the World is God Doing? Re-Imagining Spirit and Power. By Lee E. Snook. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress, 1999. 171 pp. $17.00. Lee E. Snook, professor emeritus at Luther Seminary, had no idea how comfortable and complacent he was in his Western...