Center on Religion & the Professions

Improving religious literacy among professionals.

Economics and finance: Articles

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  • “The Credit Crunch and Islamic Finance: Shari’Ah-Compliant Finance Against the Backdrop of the Credit Crisis” by Omar Salah and Reinout M. Wibier. TISCO Working Paper Series on Banking, Finance and Services. No. 1 (2011).
  • “Islam, the Mediterranean and the Rise of Capitalism” by Jairus Banaji. Historical Materialism. 15, no. 1 (2007): 47-74.
  • “The Tree of Science and Original Sin: Do Christian Religious Beliefs Constrain the Supply of Scientists?” by Maury D. Granger and Gregory N. Price. Journal of Socio-Economics. 36, no. 1 (2007): 144-60.
  • “My God, How the Money Rolls In” by James A. Haught. Free Inquiry. 27, no. 1 (2007): 51-2.
  • “Islamic Economics and Global Capitalism” by Robert W. Heftier. Society. 44, no. 1 (2006): 16-22.
  • “Do Religious Nonprofit and For-profit Organizations Respond Differently to Financial Incentives? The hospice industry” by Richard C. Lindrooth and Burton A. Weisbrod. Journal of Health Economics. 26, no. 2 (2007): 342-57.
  • “Risky Business: Assessing Risk Preference Explanations for Gender Differences in Religiosity” by Louis Marie Roth and Jeffrey Kroll. American Sociological Review. 72, no. 2 (2007): 205-20.
  • “The Economic Consequences of Pentecostal Belief” by Robert Woodberry. Society. 44, no. 1 (2006): 29-35.
  • “World Bank and Heavenly Bank in Poverty and Prosperity: The Case of Tanzanian Faith Gospel” by Paivi Hasu. Review of African Political Economy. 33, no. 110 (2006): 679-92.
  • “‘SmartMoney’: Religious Giving” by Sam Kean. Chronicle of Philanthropy. 19, no. 6 (2007): 41.
  • “Satisfaction for Whom? Freedom for What? Theology and the Economic Theory of the Consumer” by Mark Nixon. Journal of Business Ethics. 70, no. 1 (2007): 39-60.
  • “Religion has a key part to play in ensuring economic recovery” by Zaki Cooper. The Independent (London), April 3, 2009.
  • “Islamic finance can help in the blueprint for a new global economic order” by Sid Myer and Abdullah Saeed. The Age (Melbourne, Australia), Nov. 28, 2008.
  • “Meet God’s Fraud Squad; When they saw their flocks being fleeced and dispirited, a priest and a minister took action. Now they’re spreading the word on how to spot swindlers who see religious groups as easy prey” by Patrick White. The Globe and Mail (Canada), Oct. 4, 2007.
  • “The Civic, Economic, and Political Consequences of Pentecostalism in Russia and Ukraine” by Christopher Marsh and Artyom Tonoyan. Society, 46:6 (2009): 510-516.
  • “All Consuming Christmas? Religion, Culture and Challenges of Consumption” by Karen Wenell. Expository Times, 121:3 (2009): 105-114.
  • “Recession Gets Religion” by Monee Fields-White. Crain’s Chicago Business, 32:31 (2009): 3.

Economics and finance: Books

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  • Money, Greed, and  God: Why Capitalism is the Solution and Not the Problem. Jay W. Richards. HarperOne (May 4, 2010).
  • Passing the Plate: Why American Christians Don’t Give Away More Money. Christian Smith. Oxford University Press, USA (Sept. 29, 2008).
  • Faith, Morals and Money: What the World’s Religions Tell Us About Ethics in the Marketplace. Edward D. Zinbarg. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005.
  • Islamic Finance: Law, Economics, and Practice. Mahmoud A. El-Gamal. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  • Religion and economics. James M. Dean, Anthony Michael and C. Waterman. Springer, 1999.
  • The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Max Weber and Stephen Kalberg. Revised ed. Oxford University Press, USA, 2010.
  • To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise. Bethany Moreton. Harvard University Press, 2010.
  • Religion, Economics, and Public Policy: Ironies, Tragedies, and Absurdities of the Contemporary Culture Wars. Andrew D. Walsh. Praeger Publishers, 2000.
  • Capitalism and Religion: The Price of Piety. Philip Goodchild. Routledge, 2002.
  • Divine Economy: Theology and the Market. D. Stephen Long. Routledge, 2000.
  • Religion, Economics and Demography: The Effects of Religion on Education, Work, and the Family. Evelyn Lehrer. Routledge, 2008.
  • Biblical Principles for Success in Personal Finance. Rich Brott. ABC Book Publishing, 2008.

Economics and finance: About the discipline

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Religious beliefs influence how people choose to spend their money and how they believe money should be spent. They also inform their beliefs about the role of their nation’s economy in the world and the responsibilities of the state and individual. Religious organizations can also be powerful players in the secular realms of government and politics, affecting economic policy decisions. [Read more…]

Computers: Recent research

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  • Foltz, Franz A and Frederick A. Foltz. “Technology, Religion, and Justice: The Problems of Disembedded and Disembodied Law.” Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society. 26, no. 6 (2006): 463-71.
  • Starrett, Gregory. “Islam in the Digital Age: E-Jihad, Online Fatwas, and Cyber Islamic Environments.” History of Religions. 46, no. 3 (2007): 268-71.
  • Campbell, Heidi. “Religion and the Internet in the Israeli Orthodox context.” Israel Affairs. Vol. 17, No. 3 (July 2011): 364-83.
  • Cheong, Pauline Hope; Jessie P.H. Poon; Shirlena Huang and Irene Casas. “The Internet Highway and Religious Communities: Mapping and Contesting Spaces in Religion-Online.” The Information Society. Vol. 25, no. 5 (Sept. 2009): 291-302.