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Upcoming Reviews scheduled to appear in VOLUME XXV, No. 1 (2009-10)

VOLUME XXV, No. 1 (2009-10):

Kecia Ali: Structural Interrelations of Theory and Practice in Islamic Law: A Study of Six Works of Medieval Islamic Jurisprudence, by Ahmad Atif Ahmad 

Michael Blain: Church and State in the Post-Colonial Era: The Anglican Church and the Constitution in New Zealand, by Noel Cox

Huaiyu Chen: Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience, by Carolyn Chen

Charles M.A. Clark: Calculated Futures: Theology, Ethics, and Economics, by D. Stephen Long, Nancy Ruth Fox & Tripp York

Robert F. Cochran, Jr.: Christianity and Law: An Introduction, edited by John Witte, Jr. & Frank S. Alexander

Paula M. Cooey: On Suicide Bombing, by Talal Asad

Mohammad Fadel: Review Essay, Islamic Politics and Secular Politics: Can They Co-Exist?

Katherine Hunt Federle: Worship and Sin: An Exploration of Religion-Related Crime in the United States, by Karel Kurst-Swanger

Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand: The Veil: Women Writers on its History, Lore, and Politics, edited by Jennifer Heath

Leslie Griffin: Review Essay, Religion and Politics 2008-2009

Marci A. Hamilton: Review Essay, An Imperfect Vocabulary of Religious Liberty

Emma Lapsansky-Werner: Quaker Constitutionalism and the Political Thought of John Dickinson, by Jane E. Calvert

Aminah Beverly McCloud: Contesting Justice: Women, Islam, Law, and Society, by Ahmed E. Souaiaia

Elizabeth H. Prodromou: Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New Russia, by John Garrard & Carol Garrard

Leanne Simmons: The Ethics of Human Rights: Contested Doctrinal and Moral Issues, by Esther D. Reed

Mark Strasser: Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts, edited by Douglas Laycock, Anthony R. Picarello, Jr. & Robin Fretwell Wilson

Cristina L.H. Traina: Patriarchal Religion, Sexuality, and Gender: A Critique of New Natural Law, by Nicholas Bamforth & David A.J. Richards

Edward Vacek: Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship, by Eric Gregory

CURRENT BOOK REVIEWS and ESSAYS

VOLUME XXIV, No. 2 (2008-09):

Kevin Carnahan: Review Essay, Dissensus and Just War: A Review Essay

The Horrors We Bless: Rethinking the Just-War Legacy, by Daniel C. Maguire; Against the Grain: Christianity and Democracy, War and Peace, by George Weigel; War, Peace and God: Rethinking the Just-War Tradition, by Gary M. Simpson

David M. Cobin: Outlawed Pigs: Law, Religion, and Culture in Israel (Studies on Israel), by Daphne Barak-Erez

Daniel O. Conkle: Liberty: Rethinking an Imperiled Ideal, by Glenn Tinder

Brannon P. Denning: Law and the Sacred, edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas & Martha Merrill Umphrey

Mohammad Fadel: Shari'a: Islamic Law in Contemporary Context, edited by Abbas Amanat & Frank Griffel

Michelle A. Gonzalez: Governing Spirits: Religion, Miracles, and Spectacles in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898-1956, by Reinaldo L. Román

Gregory A. Kalscheur: Recovering Self-Evident Truths: Catholic Perspectives on American Law, edited by Michael A. Scaperlanda & Teresa Stanton Collett

Victoria D. List: To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600, edited by Philip L. Reynolds & John Witte, Jr.

Geraldine Szott Moohr & Roger Sherman: Religion in Criminal Justice, by Monica K. Miller

Charles J. Reid, Jr.: Voting about God in Early Church Councils, by Ramsay MacMullen

Irene Merker Rosenberg: For the Love of God and People: A Philosophy of Jewish Law, by Elliot N. Dorff

Philip G. Ziegler: Homo Juridicus: On the Anthropological Function of the Law, by Alain Supiot

 

RECENT BOOKS REVIEWED

VOLUME XXIV, No. 1 (2008-09):

Mohammed Abu-Nimer: Peacemakers in Action: Profiles of Religion in Conflict Resolution, edited by David Little

Kecia Ali: Authority, Conflict, and the Transmission of Diversity in Medieval Islamic Law, by R. Kevin Jaques

Stephen V. Arbogast: Religious Perspectives on Business Ethics: An Anthology. edited by Thomas O'Brien & Scott Paeth

Michael Ariens: What Hath Faith Wrought?: Faith and Law: How Religious Traditions from Calvinism to Islam View American Law, by Robert F. Cochran

Alan J. Avery-Peck: Execution and Invention: Death Penalty Discourse in Early Rabbinic and Christian Cultures, by Beth A. Berkowitz

Hunter Baker: The Culture of Conservative Christian Litigation, by Hans. J. Hacker; and Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite, by D. Michael Lindsay

Wesley J. Bergen: Ritual and Rhetoric in Leviticus: From Sacrifice to Scripture, by James W. Watts

Paul Butler: Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge, by B. Alan Wallace

Kevin Carnahan: Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy, by Amitai Etzioni; and Arguing the Just War in Islam, by John Kelsay

Kang Chen: Liberalism for a New Century, edited by Neil Jumonville & Kevin Mattson

Cyra Akila Choudhury: The Politics of the Veil, by Joan Wallach Scott

Donald R. Davis, Jr.: The Life of Hinduism, edited by John Stratton Hawley & Vasudha Narayanan

George W. Dent, Jr.: The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West, by Mark Lilla

Tara Fitzpatrick: God and Country: America in Red and Blue, by Sheila Suess Kennedy

Patrick M. Garry: Faith in Schools? Autonomy, Citizenship, and Religious Education in the Liberal State, by Ian MacMullen; and The Last Freedom: Religion from the Public School to the Public Square, by Joseph P. Viteritti

Jeffrey B. Hammond: Freedom of Religion in European Constitutional and International Case Law, by Renata Uitz

Robert W. Hefner: Islamic Law in Contemporary Indonesia: Ideas and Institutions, edited by R. Michael Feener & Mark E. Cammack

Steven Heine: Death and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan: Buddhism, Anti-Christianity, and the Danka System, by Nam-lin Hur

D. Michael Lindsay: Faith and the Presidency: From George Washington to George W. Bush, by Gary Scott Smith

Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb: The Law of God: The Philosophical History of an Idea, by Rémi Brague

Clark Lombardi: Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and their Judgments, edited by Muhammad Khalid Masud, Rudolph Peters & David Stephan Powers

Mary Majumder: When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law, by Shawn Francis Peters

Tiyanjana Maluwa: African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam, by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im

Lisa Maurizio: Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece, by Joan Breton Connelly

Michael A. Olivas: Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants, edited by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

Curt A. Portzel: When the Religious Turn Litigious: Suing for America's Soul: John Whitehead, the Rutherford Institute, and Conservative Christians in the Courts, by R. Jonathan Moore

Gabriel Said Reynolds: The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam, by Sidney H. Griffith

Kevin Schmiesing: Civilizing Authority: Society, State, and Church, edited by PatrickMcKinley Brennan

Stefania Tutino: Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe, by Benjamin J. Kaplan

 

PAST BOOKS REVIEWED

VOLUME XXIII, No. 2 (2007-08):

Francis J. Beckwith: The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, by Ronald L. Numbers

Angela C. Carmella: Law and Religion: Cases and Materials, by Leslie C. Griffin

Tara Fitzpatrick: Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature, by Tracy Fessenden

Jo Renee Formicola: Catholicism and Religious Freedom: Contemporary Reflections on Vatican II's Declaration on Religious Liberty, edited by Kenneth L. Grasso & Robert P. Hunt

M. Christian Green: Law of Chastity, by Robert E. Rodes, Jr.

T. Jeremy Gunn: Freedom of Religion: UN and European Human Rights Law and Practice, by Paul M. Taylor

Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn: The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future, by Martha C. Nussbaum

Suzanne Kaufman: Divided Houses: Religion and Gender in Modern France, by Caroline Ford

Clark Lombardi: Review Essay, The Islamic School of Law: Evolution, Devolution and Progress, by Peri Bearman, Rudolph Peters & Frank E. Vogel, eds.

William O'Neill: Does God Believe in Human Rights?: Essays on Religion and Human Rights, edited by Nazila Ghanea, Alan Stephens & Raphael Walden

Rodney Petersen & Thomas Porter: Honest Patriots: Loving a Country enough to Remember its Misdeeds, by Donald W. Shriver, Jr.

Shylashri Shankar: The Crisis of Secularism in India, edited by Anuradha Dingwaney Needham & Rajeshwari Sunder Rajan

Ronald Turner: Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-1965, edited by Davis W. Houck & David E. Dixon

 

VOLUME XXIII, No. 1 (2007-08):

Beth A. Berkowitz: Illuminating Leviticus: A Study of its Laws and Institutions in the Light of Biblical Narratives, by Calum Carmichael

William S. Brewbaker III: Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics, by Stephen J. Grabill

Derek H. Davis: The Robert Bellah Reader, edited by Robert N. Bellah & Steven M. Tipton

Steven F. Friedell: The Unfolding Tradition: Jewish Law after Sinai, by Elliot N. Dorff

Leslie Griffin: Review Essay, Religion and Politics 2004-2007: Evangelicals in the Public Square: Four Formative Voices on Political Thought and Action, by J. Budziszewski; The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States, by Gene Burns; Faith & Freedom: The Christian Challenge for the World, by Jimmy Carter; Faith and Politics: How the "Moral Values" Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together, by Senator John Danforth; Is Democracy Possible Here?: Principles for a New Political Debate, by Ronald Dworkin; The Values Campaign?: The Christian Right and the 2004 Elections, John C. Green, Mark J. Rozell & Clyde Wilcox, eds.;The Faiths of the Founding Fathers, by David L. Holmes; American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation, by Jon Meacham; Witnessing their Faith: Religious Influence on Supreme Court Justices and their Opinions, by Jay Alan Sekulow; The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America, by Ray Suarez; Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, Robert Wuthnow, ed.

Richard Land: American Religious Democracy: Coming to Terms with the End of Secular Politics, by Bruce Ledewitz

Edward N. Peters: Medieval Church Law and the Origins of the Western Legal Tradition: A Tribute to Kenneth Pennington, edited by Wolfgang Muller & Mary Sommar

Nelson Tebbe: Understanding Laicite: Why the French Don't like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space, by John R. Bowen

 

VOLUME XXII, No. 2 (2006-07):

Perry Dane: Review Essay, Separation Anxiety

Gloria H. Albrecht: Sex, Marriage, and Family in World, edited by Don Browning, M. Christian Green & John Witte, Jr.

Barry W. Bussey: Hope for a Global Ethic, by Brian D. Lepard; and The Pilgrimage of Stephen Harper, by Lloyd Mackey

June Carbone: Family Transformed: Religion, Values and Society in American Life, edited by Steven M. Tipton & John Witte, Jr.

Steven Goldberg: The Evolution-Creation Struggle, by Michael Ruse

Mark W. Janis: World Religions and Democracy, edited by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner & Philip J. Costopoulos

Clark Lombardi: Intent in Islamic Law: Motive and Meaning in Medieval Sunni Fiqh, by Paul R. Powers

Timothy D. Lytton: Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Church's 2,000-Year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse, by Thomas P. Doyle, A.W. Richard Sipe & Patrick J. Wall

Adam Miyashiro: Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West, by Zhang Longxi

Asifa Quraishi: The Role of Islam in the Legal System of Pakistan, by Martin Lau

VOLUME XXII, No. 1 (2006-07):

William Stacy Johnson: God vs. The Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law, by Marci A. Hamilton & Edward R. Becker

Bruce Mullin: Early New England: A Covenanted Society, by David Weir

Sayeed Rahman: Islamic Law: From Historical Foundations to Contemporary Practice, by Mawil Izzi Dien

Nerina Rustomji: Marriage, Money, and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society, by Yossef Rapoport

 

VOLUME XXI, No. 2 (2005-06):

John A. Coleman: Church, State and Civil Society, by David Fergusson

Steven G. Gey: That Godless Court?: Supreme Court Decisions on Church-State Relationships, by Ronald B. Flowers

Christine E. Gudorf: Blessing Same-Sex Unions: The Perils of Queer Romance and the Confusions of Christian Marriage, by Mark D. Jordan

Mark W. Janis: Law and Religion in Post-Communist Europe, Silvio Ferrari & W. Cole Durham, Jr., eds., Elizabeth A. Sewell, assoc. ed.; and Laws on Religion and the State in Post-Communist Europe, W. Cole Durham, Jr. & Silvio Ferrari eds.

Bradley J. Longfield: John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic, by Jeffry H. Morrison

Mary Anderlik Majumder: The Christian Religion and Biotechnology: A Search for Principled Decision-Making, by George P. Smith, II

Joseph V. Montville: Nonviolence and Peace Building in Islam: Theory and Practice, by Mohammed Abu-Nimer

Susan Tiefenbrun: Why the Medieval Trial of Joan of Arc is of Particular Interest Today (The Trial of Joan of Arc), by Daniel Hobbins

Stacey A. Tovino: Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals about Morality, by Laurence R. Tancredi

Thomas Glyn Watkin: Law and Revolution II: The Impact of the Protestant Reformations on the Western Legal Tradition, by Harold J. Berman

VOLUME XXI, No. 1 (2005-06):

Beth Berkowitz: Homicide in the Biblical World, by Pamela Barmash

Peter Clark: Contemporary Catholic Health Care Ethics, by David F. Kelly

Darrell Cole: Gandhi's Way: A Handbook of Conflict Resolution, by Mark Juergensmeyer

David R. Dow: Religion and the Death Penalty: A Call for Reckoning. Erik C. Owens, John D. Carlson & Eric P. Elshtain, eds.

Robert F. Drinan: How Can a Christian be in Politics?, by Roy Herron

Anver M. Emon: Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity, Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad & Barbara Freyer Stowasser, eds.

Carolyn Evans: Review Essay, Religion in the World (Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide), by Pippa Norris & Ronald Inglehart; and For All People and All Nations: The Ecumenical Church and Human Rights, by John S. Nurser)

Timothy L. Hall: Roger Williams (Lives and Legacies), by Edwin S. Gaustad

Marci A. Hamilton: Review Essay, Religion and Politics in the United States (In Pursuit of Justice: Christian-Democratic Explorations), by James W. Skillen; The Founders on God and Government, Daniel L. Dreisbach, Mark D. Hall & Jeffry H. Morrison, eds.; and Religion in the Liberal Polity, by Terence Cuneo)

Kenneth R. Himes: Taking Faith Seriously, Mary Jo Bane, Brent Coffin & Richard Higgins, eds.

Betty Mensch: Jonathan Edwards, Gilead, and the Problem of "Tradition": Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson; and Jonathan Edwards: A Life, by George M. Marsden

Dian Murray: Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China, by Gary Tuttle

James A.R. Nafziger: Religion & Security: The New Nexus in International Relations, Robert A. Seiple & Dennis R. Hoover, eds.

Stephen Parker: In Good Faith: Schools, Religion and Public Funding, by Marie Parker-Jenkins, Dimitra Hartas & Barrie A. Irving

Mark P. Strasser: The Philosophy of Positive Law: Foundations of Jurisprudence, by James Bernard Murphy

Stacey A. Tovino: Introduction to Jewish and Catholic Bioethics: A Comparative Analysis, by Aaron L. Mackler

Stacey A. Tovino: Jewish Biomedical Law: Legal and Extra-legal Dimensions, by Daniel B. Sinclair

Stacey A. Tovino: The Birth of Surrogacy in Israel, by D. Kelly Weisberg

 

VOLUME XX, No. 2 (2004-05):

Alfred L. Brophy: Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans, by James B. Bennett

Christopher C. Lund: The Freedom of Faith-Based Organizations to Staff on a Religious Basis, by Carl H. Esbeck, Stanley W. Carlson-Thies & Ronald J. Sider

Christopher C. Lund: Does God Belong in the Public Schools?, by Kent Greenawalt

Charles J. Reid, Jr.: Ideas and the Man: Remembering David Daube, by Calum Carmichael

Paul Weithman: Putting Liberalism in its Place, by Paul W. Kahn

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