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
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
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
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.