Center on Religion & the Professions

Improving religious literacy among professionals.

Health Professions/Health Care/Medicine: More links

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Health Professions/Health Care/Medicine: Case studies

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Health Professions/Health Care/Medicine: About the discipline

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While the intention of religion and health is to nurture the individual, religion and health can sometimes become a confrontation of values.  The medical profession’s set of values and operational procedures can conflict with corresponding values found in people of faith. This disconnect can go both ways and apply to both the patient and practitioner, which can impact quality of care. [Read more…]

German and Russian languages: Recent research

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  • Gilman, Sander L. “There Ain’t No There There: Reimagining Eastern European Jewish Culture in the 21st Century.” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 25, no. 1 (2006): 1-4.
  • Mitrokhin, L.N. “Philosophy of Religion.” Russian Studies in Philosophy. 45, no. 3 (2006): 6-34.
  • Mitrokhin, L.N. “Philosophy of Religion: New Perspectives.” Russian Social Science Review. 48, no. 2 (2007): 51-78.
  • Ream, Todd C. “Pragmatism and the Unlikely Influence of German Idealism on the Academy in the United States.” Educational Philosophy & Theory. 39 no. 2 (2007): 150-67.
  • Tzoref-Ashkenazi, Chen. “The status of Hebrew in Friedrich Schlegel’s Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier.” German Life & Letters. 60 no. 2 (2007): 165-79.

German and Russian languages: Articles

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  • “In search of moral balance: Conversion and church adherence in the Russian orthodox church during the post-soviet period” by Tünde Komáromi. Acta Ethnographica Hungarica. 56, no. 1 (2011): 93-108.
  • “There Ain’t No There There: Reimagining Eastern European Jewish Culture in the 21st Century” by Sander L. Gilman. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 25, no. 1 (2006): 1-4.
  • “Philosophy of Religion” by L.N. Mitrokhin. Russian Studies in Philosophy. 45, no. 3 (2006): 6-34.
  • “Philosophy of Religion: New Perspectives” by L.N. Mitrokhin. Russian Social Science Review. 48, no. 2 (2007): 51-78.
  • “Pragmatism and the Unlikely Influence of German Idealism on the Academy in the United States” by Todd C. Ream. Educational Philosophy & Theory. 39 no. 2 (2007): 150-67.
  • “The status of Hebrew in Friedrich Schlegel’s Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier” by Chen Tzoref-Ashkenazi. German Life & Letters. 60 no. 2 (2007): 165-79.
  • “’Chosen People, Holy Tongues’: Religion, Language, Nationalism and Politics in Bohemia and Moravia in the Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries.” Past and Present, no. 202, 2009.
  • “Orthodoxy and political myths in Balkan national identities” by Lucian Leustean. National Identities. Vol. 10, No. 4 (Dec. 2008): 421-32.
  • “Germany: teachers of religious education-mediating diversity” by Ulrich Riegel and Hans-Georg Ziebertz. How Teachers in Europe Teach Religion: An International Empirical Study in 16 Countries. Hans-Georg Ziebertz (ed.). LIT Verlag, 2011.
  • “Language Maintenance and Shift Among the Russian Old Believers of Erie, Pennsylvania” by Jeffrey Holdeman. Ph.D. thesis, Ohio State University, 2002.
  • “Religion in contemporary German-language theatre and drama” by Sinéad Crowe. Exhibited at the second Glucksman Memorial Symposium on June 13th 2007.
  • “Muslims in Austria want religious classes taught in German” BBC Worldwide Monitoring, Aug. 15, 2007.
  • “Iran’s Russian-language radio beams Islamic, anti-Western message.” BBC Worldwide Monitoring, Sept. 11, 2008.

German and Russian languages: Books

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  • Religion and the Rise of Nationalism: A Profile of an East-Central European City. Robert E. Alvis. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005.
  • The Cultural Study of Yiddish in Early Modern Europe. Jerold C. Frakes. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
  • Russian Refuge: Religion, Migration, and Settlement on the North American Pacific Rim. Susan Wiley Hardwick. University Of Chicago Press, 1993.
  • Russia and Islam: State, Society and Radicalism. Roland Dannreuther and Luke March (eds.). Routledge, 2010.
  • Religious Conflict and the Evolution of Language Policy in German and French Cameroon, 1885-1939. Kenneth J. Orosz. Peter Lang Publishing, 2008.
  • Believing in Russia – Religious Policy After Communism by Geraldine Fagan. Routledge, 2011.
  • Eastern Christianity and the Cold War 1945-1991. Lucian Leustean (ed.). Routledge, 2011.
  • The Transmission of a Liturgical Chant Tradition: Russian Orthodox Old Believers in Twentieth-Century Oregon. Karin Elise Thompson, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2001.