Center on Religion & the Professions

Improving religious literacy among professionals.

Art: Case studies

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  • On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art. James Elkins. London: Routledge, 2004.
  • At the Crossroads of Art and Religion: Imagination, Commitment, Transcendence. Peeters Publishers, 2008.

Architecture and engineering: Codes of ethics

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Architecture and engineering: Recent research

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  • Clark, David L. Chatford. “Viewing the Liturgy: A Space Syntax Study of Changing Visibility and Accessibility in the Development of the Byzantine Church in Jordan. World Archaeology. 39, no. 1 (2007): 84-104.
  • Lavinia, Stan and Lucian Turcescu. “Politics, National Symbols and the Romanian Orthodox Cathedral.” Europe-Asia Studies. 58, no. 7 (2006): 1119-39.
  • Maranci, Christian. “Building Churches in Armenia: Art at the Borders of Empire and the Edge of the Canon.” Art Bulletin. 88, no. 4 (2006): 656-75.
  • Mattox, Philip. “Domestic Sacral Space in the Florentine Renaissance Palace.” Renaissance Studies. 20, no. 5 (2006): 658-73.
  • Velthuis, Kirsten and Dirk H. R. Spennemann. “The Future of Defunct Religious Buildings: Dutch Approaches to Their Adaptive Re-use.” Cultural Trends. 16 no. 1 (2007): 43-66.
  • Turcescu, Lavinia, Stan and Lucian. “Politics, National Symbols and the Romanian Orthodox Cathedral.” Europe-Asia Studies, 58.7 (2006): 1119-39.
  • Williamson, Beth. “Locating Religious Experience: The Interaction of Images and Architecture, Space and Action.” Art History. 29, no. 5 (2006): 931-7.

Architecture and engineering: Articles

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  • “A Return to Architectural Traditions” by Brenda Goodman. The New York Times. Sept. 22, 2007.
  • “Building firm wins green award for academy” by Neil Hodgson. Liverpool Daily Echo. June 22, 2007.
  • “Congregation vs. Preservation: Two Perspectives on Sacred Space” by Roger K. Lewis. The Washington Post. Sept. 13, 2008.
  • “Engineering and Religion” by Dugald C Jackson. Science. Volume 92, Issue 2389, (1940) pp. 324-326.
  • “Radicalism Among Muslim Professionals Worries Many” Hassan M. Fattah, Suha Maayeh and Nada Bakri. The New York Times. July 14, 2007.
  • “Symposium on Buddhism explores how modern-day believers are affected by scientific developments” by Liaw Wy-Cin. The Straits Times (Singapore). July 19, 2008.
  • “Theology in built environments: exploring religion, architecture, and design” by G.T. Buggeln. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, 47:3 (2009): 492.
  • “Viewing the Liturgy: A Space Syntax Study of Changing Visibility and Accessibility in the Development of the Byzantine Church in Jordan” by Clark, David L. Chatford. World Archaeology. 39, no. 1 (2007): 84-104.

Architecture and engineering: Books

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  • An Illustrated History of Islamic Architecture. Moya Carey. Southwater, 2012.
  • Building a Public Judaism: Synagogues and Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Saskia Coenen Snyder. Harvard University Press, 2013.
  • Engineering Ethics – International Library of Essays in Public and Professional Ethics. Michael Davis. Ashgate, 2005.
  • Exit Architecture: Design Between War and Peace. Stephan Trüby. Springer, 2008
  • Heavenly Vaults: From Romanesqueto Gothic in European Architecture. David Stephenson. New York, 2009.
  • Intersections of architecture and religion in the medieval Mediterranean: The Cappella Palatina, Palermo, and the Cathedral of St Sophia, Nicosia. Amy Malleck. ProQuest, UMI Dissertation Publishing, 2012.
  • Sacred Buildings: A Design Manual. Rudolf Stegers. Basel, 2008.
  • Worship, Acoustics and Architecture. Cirillo, Ettore and Francesco Martellotta. Essex, 2007.