Center on Religion & the Professions

Improving religious literacy among professionals.

Philosophy: Books

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  • Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing?. Bede Rundle. Oxford University Press, USA, 2006
  • Philosophers and God: At the Frontiers of Faith and Reason. John Cornwell, Michael McGhee. Continuum 1 edition, 2009.
  • The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time. Judith Shulevitz. Random House, 2010.
  • Ten Essential Texts in the Philosophy of Religion: Classics and Contemporary Issues. Oxford University Press, USA, 2004.
  • Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction. William L. Rowe. Wadsworth Publishing, 2006.
  • Reason and Religious Belief: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion. Michael Peterson, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach and David Basinger. Oxford University Press, USA, 2008.
  • The Case for Religion. Keith Ward. Oneworld Publications, 2007.
  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion. William Wainwright (ed.) Oxford University Press, 2007.
  • Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings. Michael Peterson, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach and David Basinger (eds.). Oxford University Press, USA, 2006.
  • Philosophy of religion: an historical introduction. Linda Trinkaus ZagzebskiPublisher. Wiley-Blackwell, 2007.
  • Philosophy of religion: the big questions. Eleonore Stump and Michael J. Murray (eds.). Wiley-Blackwell, 1999.
  • Arabic Thought and its Place in History. De Lacy O’Leary. CreateSpace, 2011.
  • Desperately Wicked: Philosophy, Christianity and the Human Heart. Patrick Downey. IVP Academic, 2009.
  • Nietzsche & Zen (Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion). Andre van der Braak. Lexington Books, 2011.
  • Philosophy of Religion: Toward a Global Perspective. Gary E. Kessler. Wadsworth Publishing, 1998.

Philosophy: Case studies

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  • Craft, Christy M. and Alyssa N. Bryant. “Faith Development Within Religion and Philosophy Courses at a College of the Lutheran Church.” Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice. Vol. 48, No. 2 (2011): 195-212.
  • “Problem of Evil in Muslim Philosophy: A Case Study of Iqbal.” M. Maroof Shah. Indian Publishers Distributors, 2007.

Natural Resources: Articles

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  • Clearfield, Wallace B. “Stewardship, Spirituality and Natural Resources Conservation: A Short History.” 2007 technical report from the National Resources Conservation Service in Washington.
  • “Introduction: African Sacred Ecologies” by Celia Nyamweru and Michael Sheridan. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 2, 3: 285-291, 2008.
  • “Indigenous Beliefs and Biodiversity Conservation: The Effectiveness of Sacred Groves, Taboos and Totems in Ghana for Habitat and Species Conservation” by Yaa Ntiamoa-Baidu. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 2, 3: 309-326, 2008.
  • “Sacred Forests and the Global Challenge of Biodiversity Conservation: The Case of Benin and Togo” by Dominique Juhé-Beaulaton. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 2, 3: 351-372, 2008.
  • “Environmental Conference for Imams Challenges Israeli Muslims to Go Green.” Mideast Youth, Aug. 19, 2008.
  • “Pope: World’s natural resources being squandered.” The Associated Press, July 17, 2008. “Green plan for religions.” Bath Chronicle, July 31, 2008.
  • “Islamic centre visit to nature reserve.” Daily Post (Liverpool), Aug. 2, 2007.
  • “Life alongside a sacred river.” Birmingham Evening Mail, Aug. 3, 2007. Staffordshire Edition
  • “And the Lord said, ’tis blessed to be green; Congregations of many faiths are worshipping in environmentally friendly buildings” by Caryn Rousseau. The Globe and Mail (Canada), May 1, 2009.
  • “Environmental Conference for Imams Challenges Israeli Muslims to Go Green.” Mideast Youth, Aug. 19, 2008.
  • “Going green for Lent Many use period of penance to aid environment” by Beth Daley. The Boston Globe, March 3, 2008.
  • “On Moral Ground: Bioethics Training for Scientists” by Natalie Dawson. Bioscience. Vol. 59, no. 2 (Feb. 2009): 112.
  • “Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: Insights Into an Orthodox Christian Worldview” by John Chryssavgis. International Journal of Environmental Studies. 64, no. 1 (2007): 9-18.
  • “Toward a Materialist Environmental Ethic” by Anna L. Peterson. Environmental Ethics. 28, no. 4 (2006): 375-93.
  • “On the Compatibility of a Conservation Ethic with Biological Science” by Mark Sagoff. Conservation Biology. 21, no. 2 (2007): 337-345.
  • “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.
  • “Citing Heavenly Injunctions to Fight Earthly Warming” by Neela Banerjee. The New York Times. Oct. 16, 2006.
  • “How Confucianism could curb global warming” by James Miller. The Christian Science Monitor, June 26, 2009.
  • “An Islamic Perspective on Environmental Literacy” by Imfadi Abu-Hola. Education. Vol. 130, No. 2. (2009): 195-211.
  • “Ethics-Based Environmentalism in Practice: Religious-Environmental Organizations in the United States” by Angela M. Smieth and Simone Pulver. Worldviews: Environment Culture Religion, 13:2 (2009): 145-179.
  • “A religious perspective on climate change” by Jakob Wolf and Mickey Gjerris. Studia Theologica, 63:2 (2009): 119-139.

Natural Resources: Books

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  • Religion and Ecology in the Public Sphere. Celia Deane-Drummond. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011.
  • Native American Natural Resources Law: Cases and Materials. Judith V. Royster. Carolina Academic Press, 2007.
  • The Oxford handbook of religion and ecology. Roger S. Gottlieb. Oxford University Press US, 2006.
  • Of the Land and the Spirit: The Essential Lord Northbourne on Ecology and Religion. Lord Northbourne World Wisdom, edition 2008.
  • This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment. Roger Gottlieb. Routledge, 2003.
  • Worldviews, Religion, and the Environment: A Global Anthology. Richard C. Foltz. Wadsworth Publishing, 2002.
  • Ecology and the Environment: Perspectives from the Humanities. Donald K. Swearer (editor). Center for the Study of World Religions, 2009.
  • Religion and Ecology in India and Southeast Asia. David Gosling. Taylor & Francis, 2002.
  • Inherited Lands: The Changing Grounds of Religion and Ecology. Whitney A. Bauman, Richard R. Bohannon and Kevin J. O’Brien (eds.). Pickwick Publications, 2011.