Center on Religion & the Professions

Improving religious literacy among professionals.

Human development: Articles

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  • “Beyond the Nuclear Family? Familism and Gender Ideology in Diverse Religious Communities” by Penny Edgell and Danielle Docka. Sociological Forum. 22, no. 1 (2007): 26-51.
  • “The Religious Dimensions of the Grandparent Role in Three-Generation African American Households” by Sharon V. King, et al. Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging. 19, no. 1 (2006): 75-96.
  • “Friends’ Religiosity and First Sex” by Amy Adamczyk and Jacob Felson. Social Science Research. 35, no. 4 (2006): 924-47
  • “Superstition and Belief as Inevitable By-products of an Adaptive Learning Strategy” by Jan Beck and Wolfgang Forstmeier. Human Nature. 18, no. 1 (2007): 35-46.
  • “Parenting, Not Religion, Makes Us Into Moral Agents” by Benhamin Beit-Hallahmi. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 29, no. 5 (2006): 464-5.
  • “Age and Gender Differences in Adaptation and Subjective Well-Being of Older Adults Residing in Monastic Religious Communities” by Alwx Bishop. Pastoral Psychology. 55, no. 2 (2006): 131-43.
  • “Religion is Natural” by Paul Bloom. Developmental Science. 10, no. 1 (2007): 147-51.
  • “Children’s Spirituality and Postmodern Faith” by Clive Erricker. International Journal of Children’s Spirituality. 12, no. 1 (2007): 51-60.
  • “Lack of Moderation in Families Alienates Children from Religion“. Ahlul Bayt News Agency. Aug. 19, 2011.
  • “How Religiosity Helps Couples Prevent, Resolve, and Overcome Marital Conflict” by Nathanial M. Lambert. Family Relations. 55, no. 4 (2006): 439-49.
  • “Forgiveness and Therapy: A Critical Review of Conceptualizations, Practices, and Values Found in the Literature” by Terri-Ann Legaree, Jean Turner and Susan Lollis. Journal of Marital & Family Therapy. 33, no. 2 (2007): 192-213.
  • “Exploring the Links Between Spirituality and ‘Successful Ageing’” by Euan Sadler and Simon Biggs. Journal of Social Work Practice. 20, no. 3 (2006): 267-80.
  • “Parent–adolescent communication about sexuality: The role of adolescents’ beliefs, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control” by Barbara C Schouten, et. al. Patient Education & Counseling. 66, no. 1 (2007): 75-83.
  • “Adolescent Risk Behaviors and Religion: Findings From a National Study” by Jill W. Sinha, Ram A. Cnaan and Richard J. Gelles. Journal of Adolescence. 30, no. 2 (2007): 231-249.
  • “Human Development and the Demography of Secularization in Global Perspective” by Eric Kaufmann. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, Volume 2008, Article 1.
  • “Religion as a resource for positive youth development: Religion, social capital, and moral outcomes” by Pamela Ebstyne King and James L. Furrow. American Psychological Association, 2004.
  • “A Challenge for Churches: Adulthood Takes Its Time” by Peter Steinfels. The New York Times, Dec. 8, 2007.

History and social sciences: Articles

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  • “Nazism as a Secular Religion” by Milan Babik. History and Theory. 45, no. 3 (2006): 375-396.
  • “Christianity as an Arm of Empire: The Ambiguous Case of India Under the Company, c. 1813-1858” by Ian Copland. Historical Journal. 49, no. 4 (2006): 1025-54.
  • “Sikh Community: Over 100 Years in the Pacific Northwest” by Purnima Dhavan, Kym S. Rice and Benjamin Filene. Journal of American History. 93, no. 3 (2006): 819-21.
  • “The Limits of Conversion: Ritual Murder and the Virgin Mary in the Account of Adam of Bristol” by Harvey J. Hames. Journal of Medieval History. 33 no. 1 (2007): 43-59.
  • “The Dilemma of Quaker Pacifism in a Slaveholding Republic, 1833-1865” by Ryan Jordon. Civil War History. 53, no. 1 (2007): 5-28.
  • “The Savage Science: Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis, and the History of Religion” by Michael Mack. Journal of Religious History. 30, no. 3 (2006): 331-53.
  • “Science and Religion, 400 B.C.-A.D. 1550: From Aristotle to Copernicus” by Margaret J. Osler. Journal for the History of Astronomy. 37, no. 4 (2006): 486-7.
  • “The Southern Way of Death: The Meaning of Death in Antebellum White Evangelical Culture” by Randy J. Sparks. Southern Quarterly. 44, no. 1 (2006): 32-50.
  • “Nature and the Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795-1850” by John Stenhouse, International History Review. 29 no. 1 (2007): 143-5.
  • “The Sepphoris Synagogue: Deciphering an Ancient Message Through Its Archaeological and Socio-Historical Contexts” by Adam L. Porter. American Journal of Archaeology. 111, no. 1 (2007): 179.
  • “A glimpse at religion in Turkey 2,800 years ago.” Dallas Morning News, Nov. 19, 2008.
  • “Tomb of Herod the Great may have been found” by Ed O’Loughlin. Sydney Morning Herald, May 9, 2007.
  • “Religion can help end wars, too; Faith is sometimes the fuel that feeds conflict and spreads strife. History is a witness to this. But lest we forget, believers also can be the salve to bring people and religions back together” by Tom Krattenmaker. USA Today, July 14, 2008.
  • “People of the Book – The Forgotten History of Islam and the West” by Tim Cribb. South China Morning Post, Nov. 18, 2007.

Health Professions/Health Care/Medicine: Articles

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  • Paley, J. “Religion And The Secularisation Of Health Care.” Journal Of Clinical Nursing 18.14 (2009): 1963-1974. CINAHL. Web. 19 Jan. 2012.
  • Milstein, Glen, Amy Manierre, and Ann Marie Yali. “Psychological Care For Persons Of Diverse Religions: A Collaborative Continuum.” Professional Psychology: Research And Practice 41.5 (2010): 371-381. PsycARTICLES. Web. 19 Jan. 2012.
  • “Religion and Spirituality in the Lives of People with Multiple Sclerosis” by Roy K. Chena, Noreen M. Glover-Grafa and Irmo Marinia. Journal of Religion, Disability & Health. 15, no. 3 (2011): 254-271.
  • “Religion and Infant Mortality in the U.S.: A Preliminary Study of Denominational Variations”(.pdf) by John P. Bartkowski, Xiaohe Xu and Ginny E. Garcia. Religions. 2 (2011): 264-276.
  • “Valuing the Life Experience of Old Adults and Change in Depressive Symptoms: Exploring an Overlooked Benefit of Involvement in Religion”by Neal Krause. Journal of Aging and Health. Published online (2011).
  • “Communicating with the Coroner: How Religion, Culture, and Family Concerns May Influence Autopsy Decision Making” by Belinda Carpenter et al. Death Studies. 35, no. 4 (2011): 316-337.
  • “Breast cancer between faith and medicine: the Peres Maldonado ex-voto” by Lisa Pon and James F Amatruda. 36 (2010): 112-114.
  • Padela, Aasim I. and Pablo Rodriguez del Pozo. “Muslim patients and cross-gender interactions in medicine: an Islamic bioethical perspective.” Journal of Medical Ethics. Published online, 2010.
  • Safdar, Asim, Farah Ahmed and Talib Mearza. “Challenges facing Muslim GPs and Muslim patients.” InnovAiT. 3, no. 11 (2010): 691-696.
  • Campbell, Anne. “Spiritual Care for Sick Children of Five World Faiths.” Pediatric Nursing. 18, no. 10 (2006): 22-5.
  • Goldberg, Daniel S. “Religion, the Culture of Biomedicine, and the Tremendum: Towards a Non-Essentialist Analysis of Interconnection.” Journal of Religion & Health. 46, no. 1 (2007): 99-108.
  • Haimov-Kochman, Ronit and Drorith Hochner-Celinkier. “Contraceptive Counseling for Orthodox Jewish Women.” European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care. 12, no. 1 (2007): 13-8.
  • Hermann, Carla P. “The Degree to Which Spiritual Needs of Patients Near the End of Life Are Met.” Oncology Nursing Forum. 34, no. 1 (2007): 70-8.
  • Kim, Karen Hye-cheon. “Religion, Weight Perception and Weight Control Behavior.” Eating Behaviors. 8, no. 1 (2007): 121-31.
  • Latzer, Yael, Orna Tzischinsky and Faisal Azaiza. “Disordered Eating Related Behaviors Among Arab Schoolgirls in Israel: An Epidemiological Study.” International Journal of Eating Disorders. 40, no. 3 (2007): 263-70.
  • Maselko, Joanna, et al. “Religious Service Attendance and Decline in Pulmonary Function in a High-Functioning Elderly Cohort.” Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 32, no. 3 (2006): 245-53.
  • Todman, Donald. “Childbirth in Ancient Rome: From Traditional Folklore to Obstetrics.” Australian & New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 47, no. 2 (2007): 82-5.
  • Von der Osten-Sacken, Thomas and Thomas Uwer. “Is Female Genital Mutilation an Islamic Problem?” Middle East Quarterly. 14, no. 1 (2007): 29-36.
  • Yairi-Oron, Yael, Jacob Rabinson and Raoul Orvieto. “A Simplified Approach to Religious Infertility.” Fertility and Sterility. 86, no. 6 (2006): 1771-2.
  • “What Do Family Physicians Think about Spirituality in Clinical Practice?” by Mark R. Ellis, MD, MSPH; James D. Campbell, PHD; Ann Detwiler-Breidenbach, MA; and Dena K. Hubbard. The Journal of Family Practice, March 2002, Vol. 51. No. 3. (In readings for General Honors 1030 Section 4, Religion & the Professions, Dr. Jill Raitt).
  • “Religion, Culture, and Nursing” by Margaret M. Andrews and Patricia A. Hanson. Contemporary Challenges in Transcultural Nursing. (In readings for General Honors 1030 Section 4, Religion & the Professions, Dr. Jill Raitt).
  • “Patients’ Views About Discussing Spiritual Issues with Primary Care Physicians” by Mark R. Ellis, MD, MSPH, and James D. Campbell, PHD. Southern Medical Association, Vol. 97, No. 12 (Dec), 2004.
  • “American Medicine as Religious Practice: Care of the Sick as a Sacred Obligation and the Unholy Descent into Secularization” by Margaret P. Wardlaw. Journal of Religion and Health. Vol. 50, No. 1 (March 2011): 62-74.
  • “Measuring Cultural Competence In A Family Nurse Practitioner Curriculum” by Nancy Campbell-Heider, Tammy Austin-Ketch, Kay Sackett, et al. Journal of Multicultural Nursing & Health, (Fall) 2006.
  • “The Theoretical Framework of Cultural Competence by Maria Jirwe, Kate Gerrish, and Azita Emami. Journal of Multicultural Nursing & Health, (Fall) 2006.
  • Articles on health care and the Amish: Journal of Multicultural Nursing & Health, Fall 2006: “Amish Health Care Beliefs and Pratices In An Obstetrical Setting” by Betty Spencer Lemon; “Definition of Health and Health Promotion Behaviors Among Midwestern Old Order Amish Families” by Jane M. Armer and Elise M. Radina; “Amish Society: An Overview Reconsidered” by Joseph F. Donnermeyer and Lora Friedrich; “Health Care and Sequestered Cultures: A Perspective from the Old Order Amish” by Linda Graham and James A. Cates.
  • Articles on health care and the Amish: Journal of Multicultural Nursing & Health, Fall 2002: “Self-care: As defined by members of the Amish community utilizing the theory of modeling and role-modeling” by Celese Baldwin, Josephine Mullry Hibbeln, Scott Lohner Herr, and Danette Lynne Core, et al.; “The Riddle of the Amish Culture/On the Backroad to Heaven” by Scott McLean and Essie Alberta Riley; “Health beliefs and practices: The Iowa old order Amish” by Linda A. Gerdner, Toni Tripp-Reimer, and Bernard Sorofman; “A study in cultural diversity: Caregiving for the old order Amish elder with Alzheimer’s disease” by Joan Crist, Jane Armer, and M. Elise Radina: “Lessons learned while conducting research within an Amish community” by Kathleen Fisher, Kathleen; “The Amish drug task force: A natural history approach to the construction of a social problem” by Denise Reiling and Michael R.Nusbaumer; “Definition of health and health promotion behaviors among midwestern old order Amish families” by Jane M. Armer and M. Elise Radina.
  • “Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine” by Wendy Cadge. Religious Studies News, March 2009.
  • “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.
  • “Spiritual Care for Sick Children of Five World Faiths” by Anne Campbell. Pediatric Nursing. 18, no. 10 (2006): 22-5.
  • “Religion, the Culture of Biomedicine, and the Tremendum: Towards a Non-Essentialist Analysis of Interconnection” by Daniel S. Goldberg. Journal of Religion & Health. 46, no. 1 (2007): 99-108.
  • “Contraceptive Counseling for Orthodox Jewish Women” by Ronit Haimov-Kochman and Drorith Hochner-Celinkier. European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care. 12, no. 1 (2007): 13-8.
  • “The Degree to Which Spiritual Needs of Patients Near the End of Life Are Met” by Carla P. Hermann. Oncology Nursing Forum. 34, no. 1 (2007): 70-8.
  • “Religion, Weight Perception and Weight Control Behavior” by Karen Hye-cheon Kim.. Eating Behaviors. 8, no. 1 (2007): 121-31.
  • “Disordered Eating Related Behaviors Among Arab Schoolgirls in Israel: An Epidemiological Study” by Yael Latzer, Orna Tzischinsky and Faisal Azaiza. International Journal of Eating Disorders. 40, no. 3 (2007): 263-70.
  • “Religious Service Attendance and Decline in Pulmonary Function in a High-Functioning Elderly Cohort” by Joanna Maselko, Joanna, et al. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 32, no. 3 (2006): 245-53.
  • “Childbirth in Ancient Rome: From Traditional Folklore to Obstetrics” by Donald Todman, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 47, no. 2 (2007): 82-5.
  • “Is Female Genital Mutilation an Islamic Problem?” by Thomas Von der Osten-Sacken and Thomas Uwer. Middle East Quarterly. 14, no. 1 (2007): 29-36.
  • “A Simplified Approach to Religious Infertility” by Yael Yairi-Oron, Jacob Rabinson and Raoul Orvieto. Fertility and Sterility. 86, no. 6 (2006): 1771-2.
  • “Police look for mom, son who fled to avoid chemo” by Amy Forliti and Patrick Condon. Associated Press, May 20, 2009.
  • “Teen in prayer death trial says sister was weak” by Robert Imrie. Associated Press, May 20, 2009.
  • “Addressing Patients’ Emotional and Spiritual Needs” by Paul Alexander Clark, Maxwell Drain and Mary P. Malone. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety, Volume 29, Number 12, December 2003.
  • “Health Prayer: Should Religion and Faith Have Roles in Medicine?” by Christine Larson. U.S. News & World Report, Dec. 22, 2008.
  • “Religion and Health: New Research Revives an Old Debate” by Mary Duenwald. The New York Times, May 7, 2002.
  • “When religion and healthcare collide: Healthcare providers should not be allowed to let faith interfere with delivering care” by Richard P. Sloan. Los Angeles Times. Aug. 23, 2008.
  • “Culture, Religion Frame Care for Muslim Patients” by David Milne. Psychiatric News. American Psychiatric Association, Volume 40 Number 2, Jan. 21, 2005.
  • “The Role of Religion in Health Care Access Among Drug Users” by Duane McBride, Rene Drumm, Alina Baltazar, Jimmy Kijai, Yvonne Terry-McElrath and Clyde McCoy. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA, Aug. 14, 2004.
  • “Cultural Competence and Health Care Disparities: Key Perspectives and Trends” by Joseph R. Betancourt, Alexander R. Green, J. Emilio Carrillo and Elyse R. Park. Health Affairs, March/April 2005 24 (2): 499-505.
  • “Nursing Ethics in Seventh-day Adventist Religious Tradition” by Elizabeth Johnston Taylor and Mark F. Carr. Nursing Ethics, 16:6 (2009): 707-718.

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.

Geography and geology: Articles

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  • “Where is Mt. Sinai?” by Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg. The Jerusalem Post, June 5, 2008.
  • “The Geography of Religion in India: Perspectives and Prospects” by Rana P.B. Singh. National Geographical Journal of India. 1992. 38: 27-38.
  • “Religion and geography” by C. Park, Chapter 17 in Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion. J. Hinnells (ed). London: Routledge, 2004.
  • “The Geography of Pilgrimages in India: Perspective and Prospects” by Rana P.B. Singh. National Geographical Journal of India. 1992. 38: 39-54.
  • “Geography of Religion: Where God Lives, Where Pilgrims Walk.” Christian Century, 2006.
  • “Making Mountains Out of Molehills in the Bronze Age Aegean: Visibility, Ritual Kits, and the Idea of a Peak Sanctuary” by Camilla Briault, World Archaeology. 39, no. 1 (2007): 122-41.
  • “Toward a Geography of ‘Religion’: Mapping the Distribution of an Unstable Signifier.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Volume 96, Number 1, pp. 169-175(7). Routledge, 2006.
  • “Mapping the Sacred: Religion, Geography and Postcolonial Literatures.” Literature and Theology. Oxford University Press, 17(2):219-221, 2003.
  • “Geography and religion: trends and prospects” by Lily Kong. Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 14, No. 3, 355-371, 1990.
  • Geology and religion: a historical perspective on current problems. M. Kölbl-Ebert. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, v. 310; p. 1-6, 2009.
  • “Don’t sacrifice the Sacred Headwaters” by Wade Davis. The Globe and Mail (Canada), Oct. 8, 2007.
  • “The one-state delusion; The geography of the Land of Israel/Palestine makes its division into two states a practical nightmare. But the alternative–one binational state–is inconceivable” by Benny Morris. National Post (Canada), May 13, 2009.
  • “Rocking the Science World.” The Gazette (Montreal), July 12, 2008.
  • Yiftachel, Oren and Batya Roded. “Abraham’s Urban Footsteps: Political Geography and Religious Radicalism in Israel/Palestine.” The Fundamentalist City?: Religiosity and the Remaking of Urban Space. Nezar Alsayyad (ed.). Taylor & Francis, 2010.

Film and theater: Articles

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  • Baroque and Classical in Jesuit Theatre by Michael J. Lueger. Journal of Religion and Theatre. 9, no. 1 (2010).
  • “North American Passion Plays” by Dorothy Chansky. The Drama Review. 50, no. 4 (2006): 120-45.
  • “God Hates Cowboys (Kind Of)” by Michael Cobb. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 13, no. 1 (2007): 102-5.
  • “Shouting Fire: Art, Religion and the Right to Be Offended” by David Edgar. Race and Class. 48, no. 2 (2006): 61-76.
  • “Spirit Possession, Power, and the Absent Presence of Islam: Re-Viewing Les Maîtres Fous” by Paul Henley. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 12, no. 4 (2006): 731-61.
  • “Constructing a Priest, Silencing a Saint: The PCA and I Confess (1953)” by Amy Lawrence. Film History. 19, no. 1 (2007): 52-72.
  • “Ecclesiastes Gone ‘Sideways’” by Jill Middlemas. Expository Times. 118, no. 5 (2007): 216-21.
  • “The Aesthetics of Materialism in Alan Ball’s American Beauty” by Judith A. Spector and Katherine V. Tsiopos Willis. Midwest Quarterly. 48, no. 2 (2007): 279-96.
  • “Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen” by Jeff Wax. Theatre Journal. 58, no. 4 (2006): 716-7.
  • “To Perform, or Not to Perform? A Theory of Ritual Performance Versus Cognitive Theories of Religious Transmission” by Robert A. Yelle. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion. 18, no. 4 (2006): 372-91.
  • “Cash Film’s Missing Ingredient: Religion” by Robert Levine. The New York Times, March 4, 2006.
  • “New Jesus film puts race into religion.” CNN.com, Oct. 30, 2006
  • “The Pedagogical Challenges of Finding Christ Figures in Film” by Christopher Deacy. Teaching Religion and Film. Gregory J. Watkins (ed.). Oxford University Press U.S., 2008.
  • “Theatre’s role is to challenge religion” by Dominic Dromgoole. The Guardian, Dec. 20, 2004.
  • “An intense experience in theater of the soul” by Louise Kennedy. The Boston Globe, May 5, 2009.
  • “Syrian writer urges ‘legal, economic, media response’ to anti-Islam film.” BBC Worldwide Monitoring, April 7, 2008.
  • “Not everyone in Hindu community laughing over new comedy” by Caroline Alphonso. The Globe and Mail (Canada), June 16, 2008.
  • ‘’God as a woman? It’s not odd at all’: As a self-described liberal Anglican priest, Aled Jones Williams is used to dividing opinions with his views on women priests and homosexuals. But with his new play, re-casting Jesus as woman in the modern-day Middle East, has he gone too far?” by Matt Thomas. The Western Mail, Aug. 1, 2008.
  • “American dramatist confronts issues that we avoid” by Benedict Nightingale. The Times (London), April 4, 2008.
  • “Spritual Films Don’t Have a Prayer in Hollywood” by Christian Toto. Human Events, vol. 65, 13. (2009), pp.583-584.
  • “Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen” by Douglas E. Cowan. Journal of American Culture, 32:3 (2009): 280-281.
  • “Secularism Strikes Back: New Documentaries on Religion and Faight” by Conrad Geller. Cineaste, 34:1 (2008): 14-19.
  • “Decolonising Religion in African Film” by Jolyon Mitchell. Studies in World Christianity, 15:2 (2009): 149-161.

English and literature: Articles

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  • “Religion on the American Mind” by Lawrence Buell. American Literary History. 19, no. 1 (2007): 32-55.
  • “The Times They Are a-Changin’” by Fred Edwards. Humanist. 67, no. 1 (2007): 45.
  • “The Occult Novels of Dion Fortune” by Susan Johnston Graf. Journal of Gender Studies. 16 no. 1 (2007): 47-56.
  • “Religious Views of Hans Christian Andersen’s Works – and their Literary Implications” by Johan de Mylius, Orbis Litterarum. 62, no. 1 (2007): 23-38.
  • “The Relationship Between Bible Literacy and Academic Achievement and School Behavior” by William H. Jeynes. Education and Urban Society, Vol. 41, No. 4, 419-436 (2009).
  • “Interdisciplinarity in Impossible Times: Studying Religion through Literature and the Arts” by David Jasper. Literature and Theology: New Interdisciplinar. Heather Walton (ed.). Ashgate Publishing, 2011.
  • “The Bible as Literature” by Sean Alfano, CBS News April 16, 2006
  • “New wave of Buddhist writers emerges and gets noticed” by Daniel Burke. Religion News Service, Nov. 21, 2007.
  • “From classic literature, religious lessons” by Richard Barlow. The Boston Globe, Feb. 2, 2008.
  • “Book of revelation: All children should be taught the Bible at school, says Andrew Motion. Without the great stories, they cannot hope to understand history and literature” by Janet Murray. The Guardian (London), Feb. 17, 2009.
  • “The enduring power of a glorious translation; There will be hosannas and great rejoicing for the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible” by Michael Binyon. The Times (London), Feb. 14, 2009.

Education: Articles

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  • “Diferente Desde Aquí: Twenty-Four Ways of Looking at Religious Education” by Mai-Anh Le Tran. Religious Education. 106, no. 2 (2011): 147-161.
  • “Just Act, Don’t Think!” Religion, Education, and Disciplinary Decadence by Wandia Njoya. Atlantic Journal of Communication. 19, no. 1 (2011): 43-53.
  • “Science and Religion in a High School Physics Class: Revisiting the Source Materials of ‘The Interaction of Scientific and Religious Discourses'” by Wolff-Michael Roth. Cultural Studies of Science Education. 5, no. 1 (2010): 163-167.
  • Buell, Lawrence. “Religion on the American Mind.” American Literary History. 19, no. 1 (2007): 32-55.
  • Cressy, David. “Early Modern Space Travel and the English Man in the Moon.” American Historical Review. 111, no. 4 (2006): 960-82.
  • Edwords, Fred. “The Times They Are a-Changin’.” Humanist. 67, no. 1 (2007): 45.
  • Graf, Susan Johnston. “The Occult Novels of Dion Fortune.” Journal of Gender Studies. 16 no. 1 (2007): 47-56.
  • Mylius, Johan de. “Religious Views of Hans Christian Andersen’s Works – and their Literary Implications.” Orbis Litterarum. 62, no. 1 (2007): 23-38.
  • Brownfield, E.Y. “The First Amendment Implications of Teaching the Theory of Evolution and Creationism In Public Schools.” Journal of Law & Education. 36, no. 1 (2007): 141-8.
  • Carpenter, Lucas. “Religion and the Liberal Arts.” Humanist. 67, no. 2 (2007): 25-8.
  • Cush, Denise. “Consumer Witchcraft: Are Teenage Witches a Creation of Commercial Interests?” Journal of Beliefs & Values: Studies in Religion & Education. 28, no. 1 (2007): 45-53.
  • Darden, Edwin C. “Public Education, Private Faith.” American School Board Journal. 193, no. 11 (2006): 44-5.
  • Moini, Saira. “Interpreting Religion Through Music.” Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. 23, no. 24 (2007): 32.
  • Sanders, Glenn E. “Exposing Students to Intractable Problems: Christian Faith and Justice in a Course on the Middle East.” Journal of Education & Christian Belief. 10, no 2. (2006): 39-62.
  • Thurman, R.A.F. “Meditation and Education: India, Tibet, and Modern America.” Teachers College Record. 108, no. 9 (2006): 1765-74.
  • Zine, Jasmin. “Safe Havens or Religious ‘Ghettos’? Narratives of Islamic Schooling in Canada.” Race, Ethnicity & Education. 10, no. 1 (2007): 71-92.
  • “The First Amendment Implications of Teaching the Theory of Evolution and Creationism In Public Schools” by E.Y. Brownfield, E.Y. Journal of Law & Education. 36, no. 1 (2007): 141-8.
  • “Religion and the Liberal Arts” by Lucas Carpenter. Humanist. 67, no. 2 (2007): 25-8.
  • “Consumer Witchcraft: Are Teenage Witches a Creation of Commercial Interests?” by Denise Cush. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Studies in Religion & Education. 28, no. 1 (2007): 45-53.
  • “Public Education, Private Faith” by Edwin C. Darden. American School Board Journal. 193, no. 11 (2006): 44-5.
  • “Interpreting Religion Through Music” by Saira Moini. Diverse Issues in Higher Education. 23, no. 24 (2007): 32.
  • “Exposing Students to Intractable Problems: Christian Faith and Justice in a Course on the Middle East” by Glenn E. Sanders. Journal of Education & Christian Belief. 10, no 2. (2006): 39-62.
  • “Meditation and Education: India, Tibet, and Modern America” by R.A.F. Thurman. Teachers College Record. 108, no. 9 (2006): 1765-74.
  • “Safe Havens or Religious ‘Ghettos’? Narratives of Islamic Schooling in Canada” by Jasmin Zine. Race, Ethnicity & Education. 10, no. 1 (2007): 71-92.
  • “‘The Most Hated Woman in America’: Madalyn Murray and the Crusade against School Prayer” by Bruce J. Dierenfield. Journal of Supreme Court History. 32, no. 1 (2007): 62-84.
  • “The Relationship Between Bible Literacy and Academic Achievement and School Behavior” by William H. Jeynes. Education and Urban Society, Vol. 41, No. 4, 419-436 (2009).
  • “Federal lawsuit claims Eastern Michigan University dismissed grad student from counseling program for her views on homosexuality” by Amanda Hamon. The Ann Arbor News. April 06, 2009.
  • “Professional Ethics: Setting, Terrain, and Teacher” by William F. May. Ethics Teaching in Higher Education, Daniel Callahan and Sissela Bok (eds.).
  • “Berlin to vote on religion lessons” by John McManus. BBC April 24, 2009
  • “Teacher accused of displaying Bible sues district” by Andrew Welsh-Huggins. Associated Press, June 10, 2009.
  • “Quebec’s ethics and religion course is worth defending; It has become a model of how to foster respect and tolerance” by Michael Schleifer. The Gazette (Montreal), May 19, 2009.

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.

Computers: Articles

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  • “Caring through technology: using e-mail for Christian pastoral care” by Stella Mills. Interacting with Computers (2010).
  • “Technology, Religion, and Justice: The Problems of Disembedded and Disembodied Law” by Franz A. Foltz and Frederick A. Foltz. Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society. 26, no. 6 (2006): 463-71.
  • “Islam in the Digital Age: E-Jihad, Online Fatwas, and Cyber Islamic Environments” by Gregory Starrett. History of Religions. 46, no. 3 (2007): 268-71.
  • “Religion colors Americans’ views of nanotechnology.” Biotech Business Week, March 3, 2008.
  • “Cross-cultural perspectives on religion and computer-mediated communication” by C. Ess. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(3), 2007
  • “Online for the faithful” by Darren Osborne. The Courier Mail (Australia), April 2, 2008.
  • “Pope launches own Facebook page; But no, you can’t become a papal friend, and you can’t poke him” by Reuters. The Gazette (Montreal), May 24, 2009
  • “Religion sells computers in India Intel researcher claims” by Nick Farrell. ITExaminer.com, Jan. 5, 2009.
  • “A Capitalist Venturing in the World of Computers and Religion” by Laura M. Holson. The New York Times, Jan. 3, 2000.
  • “Cyberspace as Sacred Space: Communicating Religion on Computer Networks” by Stephen D. O’Leary. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, LX1V/4.
  • “Jesus Online (cover story).” Time Mgazine, Dec. 16, 1996.
  • “The relationship between religious expression and outcomes in online support groups: A partial replication.” by Morton A. Lieberman. Computers in Human Behavior, 25:3 (2009): 690-694.
  • “The New Virtual (Inter)Face of African Pentecostalism. Society, 46:6 (2009): 496-503.
  • “How the Internet Shapes Religious Life, or the Medium Is Itself the Message” by J.M. van der Laan. Bulletin of Science, Technology &Society, 29:4 (2009): 272-277.