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Agriculture, food science and environment: Articles

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  • “Are Scientists Playing God? It Depends on Your Religion” by John Tierney. The New York Times, Nov. 20, 2007.
  • “Citing Heavenly Injunctions to Fight Earthly Warming” by Neela Banerjee. The New York Times. Oct. 16, 2006.
  • “Cultural perspectives on agriculture” by Petrus Simons. The New Zealand Journal of Christian Thought & Practice, 17:1 (2009): 25-31.
  • “Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: Insights Into an Orthodox Christian Worldview” by John Chryssavgis. International Journal of Environmental Studies. 64, no. 1 (2007): 9-18.
  • “Environmental Conference for Imams Challenges Israeli Muslims to Go Green.” Mideast Youth, Aug. 19, 2008.
  • “Faithful Have New Food for Thought; Believers Carry Over Their Values as They Remodel Their Diets” by G. Jeffrey Macdonald. The Washington Post, Sept. 6, 2008.
  • “Framing the Issue: Religion, Secular Ethics and the Case of Animal Rights Mobilization” by Marie Mika. 85, no. 2 (2006): 915-41.
  • “Going green for Lent: Many use period of penance to aid environment” by Beth Daley. The Boston Globe, March 3, 2008.
  • “How Confucianism could curb global warming” by James Miller. The Christian Science Monitor, June 26, 2009.
  • “Mennonite Farmer Sues Claiming Animal ID System Infringes His Religious Beliefs” by Howard Friedman. Religion Clause, June 22, 2007.
  • “On the Compatibility of a Conservation Ethic with Biological Science” by Mark Sagoff. Conservation Biology. 21, no. 2 (2007): 337-345.
  • “People of the Corn: Teachings in Hopi Traditional Agriculture, Spirituality, and Sustainability: by Dennis Wall and Virgil Masayesva. University of Nebraska Press: American Indian Quarterly. v28 n3-4 p435-453 Sum-Fall 2004.
  • “Protestantism, Anxiety and Orientations to the Environment: Sweden as a Test Case for the Ideas of Richard Sennett” by Hilary Stanworth. Worldviews: Environment Culture Religion. 10, no. 3 (2006): 295-325.
  • “Public Concern with Farm-Animal Welfare: Religion, Politics, and Human Disadvantage in the Food Sector” by Danielle R. Deemer and Linda M. Lobao. Rural Sociology (2011).
  • “Spirituality in Agriculture,” paper presented at The Concord School of Philosophy, Concord, MA, Oct. 8, 2005
  • Sustainable Agriculture, The Link Between Agriculture and Spirituality.
  • “Toward a Materialist Environmental Ethic” by Anna L. Peterson. Environmental Ethics. 28, no. 4 (2006): 375-93.