Center on Religion & the Professions

Improving religious literacy among professionals.

Community development: Articles

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  • “Is it God or Just the Data that Moves in Mysterious Ways? How Well-Being Research may be Mistaking Faith for Virtue” by James Benjamin Schuurmans-Stekhoven. Social Indicators Research. 100, no. 2 (2011): 313
  • “Faith and fragile states: why the development community needs religion” by Seth Kaplan. Harvard International Review, March 22, 2009.
  • “African American Religion: The Struggle for Community Development in a Southern City” by Said Sewell/State University of West Georgia. The Journal of Southern Religion, 2001.
  • “Media, religion and democratic participation: community communication in Zimbabwe and Norway” by Knut Lundby. Sage Publications, Inc., 1997.
  • “Power, conflict, and spirituality: A qualitative study of faith-based community organizing” by B. Christens, D.L. Jones and P.W. Speer. Qualitative Social Research, 9(1), 2008.
  • “Toward a community-oriented action research framework for spirituality: Community psychological and theological perspectives” by P.R. Dokecki, R.T. O’Gorman and J.R. Newbrough. Journal of Community Psychology, 29, 497-518, 2001.
  • “Dietary change through African American churches: Baseline results and program description of the Eat for Life trial” by K. Resnicow, D.C. Wallace, A. Jackson, A. DiGirolamo, E.  Odom, T. Wang, W. Dudley, M. Davis, D. Mitchell and T. Baranowski. Journal of Cancer Education, 15(3):156-163, 2000.
  • “Action Research on Leadership for Community Development in West Africa and North America: A Joining of Liberation Theology and Community Psychology” by J. Trout, P.R. Dokecki, J.R. Newbrough and R.T. O’Gorman. Journal of Community Psychology, 31, 129-148, 2003.
  • “Taking the Sanctuary to the Streets: Religion, Race, and Community Development in Columbus, Ohio” by Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 594, No. 1, 79-91, 2004.
  • “Role of Madrassas (Religious Institutions) in Community Development” by Bushra Akbar, Muhammad Imran, Asma Mustafa, Sidra Tariq, Iram Iqbal and Nazim Hussain(.pdf). Journal of Agriculture & Social Sciences. 1813–2235/2005/01–2–206–207
  • “Religious groups roped into IRCCs; 80% of these groups have joined Inter-Racial Confidence Circles, which will be renamed” by Sumathi Selvaretnam. The Straits Times (Singapore), Sept. 7, 2007.
  • “When God and Poverty Collide: Exploring the Myths of Faith-sponsored Community Development” by Tanja Winkler. Urban Studies, 45:10 (2008): 2009-2116.
  • “Faith-based programs and their influence on homelessness” by B.G. Bass. Family & Community Health, 32:4 (2009) 314-319.

Community development: Books

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  • Development and Religion: Theology and Practice. Matthew Clarke. Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011.
  • InterActive Faith: The Essential Interreligious Community-Building Handbook. Rev. Bud Heckman with Rori Picker Neiss (eds.) Woodstock, Vermont: Skylight Paths, 2008.
  • Cuba: Religion, Social Capital, and Development. Adrian H. Hearn Duke. University Press, 2008.
  • Religious institutions and faith-based community development corporations: a link between affordable housing and historic preservation in inner city neighborhoods. Andrea Joy Cochrane. Cochrane University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 1996.
  • Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development. John M. Perkins. Baker Books, 1993.
  • Finding Global Balance: Common Grounds Between the Worlds of Development And Faith. Lucy Keough. World Bank Publications, 2005.
  • Human rights, the UN and the Bahá’ís in Iran. Nazila Ghanea-Hercock. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2002.

Community development: Case studies

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Communication: Codes of ethics

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Communication: Professional associations and faith groups

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Communication: Recent research

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  • Meyer, Birgit. “Religious Revelation, Secrecy and the Limits of Visual Representation.” Anthropological Theory. 6, no. 4 (2006): 431-53.
  • Dumanig, Francisco Perlas, Maya Khemlani David and Ceasar Dewalis. “Conversion narratives and construction of identity among Christians in Malaysia.” Multilingua. 30, no. 3/4 (2011): 319-31.
  • Eisenlohr, Patrick. “Media authenticity and authority in Mauritius: On the mediality of language in religion.” Language & Communication. Vol. 31, No. 3 (July 2011): 266-73.