Volume 42                                      Winter, 2007                                         Number 1

 

 

CONTENTS

 

 

FUNDAMENTALISM: RACE, TRUTH, AND DEMOCRACY

IN A GLOBAL WORLD

 

 

INTRODUCTION

       by John A. Powell, Ming Shi Trammel, and Daniel Newhart .................. 1

 

THE AUTHORS........................................................................................................ 5

      

FUNDAMENTALISMS AND AMERICAN PLURALISM

       by Paul Numrich................................................................................................ 9

 

WHAT IS FUNDAMENTALISM, AND HOW DO WE GET RID OF IT?

       by Mark LeVine............................................................................................... 15

 

JEWS AND FUNDAMENTALISM

       by Samuel Heilman......................................................................................... 29

 

rELIGION, WELFARE POLITICS, AND CHURCH-STATE SEPARATION

       by Daniel L. Chen and Jo Thori Lind............................................................ 42

 

THE GOD STRATEGY: THE RISE OF RELIGIOUS POLITICS IN aMERICA

       by David Domke and Kevin M. Coe............................................................... 53

 

MACHIAVELLI MEETS THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT: MICHAEL LEDEEN,
THE NEOCONSERVATIVES, AND THE POLITICAL USES OF
FUNDAMENTALISM

       by Hugh B. Urban........................................................................................... 76

 

GODS: TOWARD A CONTEMPORARY DISCOURSE ON RELIGION AND
DEMOCRACY

       by Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou............................................................................. 98

 

 

EXPLORATIONS AND RESPONSES:

       A RESPONSE TO WILLIAM D. RUBINSTEIN

               by Raphael Medoff and Racelle W. Weiman...................................... 107

 

       RESPONSE TO SPECIAL WYMAN ISSUE

               by Stephen Solarz................................................................................. 109

 

BOOK REVIEWS................................................................................................. 110

       BOOKS OF INTEREST................................................................................. 113

 

ECUMENICAL EVENTS:

       2006 Gathering of the North American Academy of Ecumenists

               by Lorelei F. Fuchs............................................................................... 118

       The 2007 Workshop on Christian Unity

               by John George Huber........................................................................ 119

       37th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust

               by Zev Garber....................................................................................... 121

 

ECUMENICAL RESOURCES............................................................................ 122



Volume 42                                      Spring, 2007                                         Number 2

 

 

CONTENTS

 

ARTICLES:

       BEYOND WORD AND SACRAMENT: A REFORMED

       PROTESTANT ENGAGEMENT OF GUADALUPAN DEVOTION

             by Rubén Rosario Rodrígues........................................................... 173                                         

           

       CATHOLIC IDENTITY AND ANTISEMITISM IN A EULOGY FOR

       iSABEL “tHE cATHOlIC”

               by John M. McManamon..................................................................... 196

 

       THE REQUIREMENTS AND CHALLENGES OF FULL   cOMMUNION:
       a multilateral evaluation?

               by Jeffrey Gros...................................................................................... 217

 

       THE SANTAL SACRED GROVE AND CATHOLIC

       INCULTURATION

               by Selva J. Raj....................................................................................... 243

      

       ECUMENICAL MARRIAGE AS LEAVEN FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY

               by Jason E. King................................................................................... 253

      

       1054 REVISITED

               by Charles Frazee................................................................................ 263

 

 

EXPLORATIONS AND RESPONSES:

       ECUMENISM AND INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE SEEN

       THROUGH AN EMANCIPATORY THEORY

               by Gideon Goosen................................................................................ 280

 

       NEXUS: RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY

               by Stacy Keogh...................................................................................... 286

 

 

BOOK REVIEW................................................................................................... 289

 

 

ECUMENICAL RESOURCES............................................................................ 292


 

Volume 42 Summer, 2007 Number 3

 

CONTENTS

ARTICLES:

   A GLOBAL ETHIC: AN INTRODUCTION

     by Leonard Swidler  .................................................................................... 333       

 

   THE AUTHORS  ................................................................................................ 334

 

   TOWARD A UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF A GLOBAL ETHIC

      by Leonard Swidler  .................................................................................... 337

 

   ENLIGHTENMENT AND TRADITION: THE CLASH WITHIN    CIVILIZATIONS

     by Samuel Fleischacker  ............................................................................. 351

 

   IN SEARCH OF A MORALLY ACCEPTABLE NATIONALISM

      by Elias Baumgarten  .................................................................................. 355

  

   CREATING AN ETHICAL CONTEXT FOR GLOBALIZATION:    CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVES IN AN INTERRELIGIOUS CONTEXT

      by John T. Pawlikowski  ............................................................................. 363

  

   COMMON GROUND AND COMMON SKIES:

   NATURAL lAW AND    ECOLOGICAL RESPONSIBILITY

     by William French  ...................................................................................... 373

 

   CELEBRATING PLURALISM AND DIALOGUE: QUR’ANIC PERSPECTIVES

     by Asma Afsaruddin  ................................................................................... 389

 

   shared values in communal life: provisional skepticism    And the prospect of a global ethic

     by Scott R. Paeth  ........................................................................................ 407

 

   WHITHER GLOBAL ETHICS? mORAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND    GLOBAL CULTURAL FLOWS

     by William Schweiker  ................................................................................. 425

 

   A GLOBAL ETHIC FOR THE GLOBAL VILLAGE

     by Ingrid H. Shafer  .................................................................................... 440

 

 

EXPLORATIONS AND RESPONSES:

   Covenantal Pluralism and Saul of Tarsus: A Review Article

      by Thomas A. Idinopulos  ............................................................................ 454

 

   On the Divine Plan and the Human Role in Development of Religions:

   A Response to Tom Idinopulos

      by Irving Greenberg  .................................................................................. 458

ECUMENICAL EVENTS

   “On Being Christians Together”: U.S. Faith and Order Commission

   Celebrates 50 Years—OberlinCollege, July 19–23, 2007

     by Joseph A. Loya and Julia Sheetz-Willard  ............................................... 463

 

BOOK REVIEWS  ..................................................................................................... 469

 

ECUMENICAL RESOURCES  .................................................................................. 478

 

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NEW ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR

 

   In a new capacity on our masthead with this issue, the Rev. Dr. Julia Sheetz-Willard has been hired fulltime as Administrative Coordinator for J.E.S. and its related Interreligious, Intercultural Dialogue Institute. Julie received her Ph.D. in Religion and Society, together with a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies, from TempleUniversity in May, 2007. Her dissertation was an analytical history of contemporary debates about homosexuality in the Presbyterian Church (USA). For the past four years Julie has worked as a graduate/editorial assistant at J.E.S. She has taught numerous courses in Temple’s Religion Department as an adjunct instructor and teaching assistant, and she has served as a preceptor at Lancaster (PA) Theological Seminary. An ordained PC(USA) minister, Julie has served churches in upstate New York, New Jersey, and suburban Philadelphia. In addition to her pastoral work, she has served locally and nationally on denominational committees engaged in peacemaking and social-justice ministries. Julie received a B.A. in religion and psychology from EarlhamCollege, an M.Div. from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and a Th.M. in applied theology from HarvardDivinitySchool. She is a member of the Anna Crusis Women’s Choir in Philadelphia and lives with her family in Bryn Mawr, PA.

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