Center on Religion & the Professions

Improving religious literacy among professionals.

Agriculture, food science and environment: Articles

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  • “Are Scientists Playing God? It Depends on Your Religion” by John Tierney. The New York Times, Nov. 20, 2007.
  • “Citing Heavenly Injunctions to Fight Earthly Warming” by Neela Banerjee. The New York Times. Oct. 16, 2006.
  • “Cultural perspectives on agriculture” by Petrus Simons. The New Zealand Journal of Christian Thought & Practice, 17:1 (2009): 25-31.
  • “Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: Insights Into an Orthodox Christian Worldview” by John Chryssavgis. International Journal of Environmental Studies. 64, no. 1 (2007): 9-18.
  • “Environmental Conference for Imams Challenges Israeli Muslims to Go Green.” Mideast Youth, Aug. 19, 2008.
  • “Faithful Have New Food for Thought; Believers Carry Over Their Values as They Remodel Their Diets” by G. Jeffrey Macdonald. The Washington Post, Sept. 6, 2008.
  • “Framing the Issue: Religion, Secular Ethics and the Case of Animal Rights Mobilization” by Marie Mika. 85, no. 2 (2006): 915-41.
  • “Going green for Lent: Many use period of penance to aid environment” by Beth Daley. The Boston Globe, March 3, 2008.
  • “How Confucianism could curb global warming” by James Miller. The Christian Science Monitor, June 26, 2009.
  • “Mennonite Farmer Sues Claiming Animal ID System Infringes His Religious Beliefs” by Howard Friedman. Religion Clause, June 22, 2007.
  • “On the Compatibility of a Conservation Ethic with Biological Science” by Mark Sagoff. Conservation Biology. 21, no. 2 (2007): 337-345.
  • “People of the Corn: Teachings in Hopi Traditional Agriculture, Spirituality, and Sustainability: by Dennis Wall and Virgil Masayesva. University of Nebraska Press: American Indian Quarterly. v28 n3-4 p435-453 Sum-Fall 2004.
  • “Protestantism, Anxiety and Orientations to the Environment: Sweden as a Test Case for the Ideas of Richard Sennett” by Hilary Stanworth. Worldviews: Environment Culture Religion. 10, no. 3 (2006): 295-325.
  • “Public Concern with Farm-Animal Welfare: Religion, Politics, and Human Disadvantage in the Food Sector” by Danielle R. Deemer and Linda M. Lobao. Rural Sociology (2011).
  • “Spirituality in Agriculture,” paper presented at The Concord School of Philosophy, Concord, MA, Oct. 8, 2005
  • Sustainable Agriculture, The Link Between Agriculture and Spirituality.
  • “Toward a Materialist Environmental Ethic” by Anna L. Peterson. Environmental Ethics. 28, no. 4 (2006): 375-93.

Advertising and marketing: Articles

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  • “Advertising panel approves British `No God’ bus ads,” by Al Webb, Religion News Service, Jan. 22, 2009.
  • “Ethics and Values in Advertising: Professional Identities and Organizational Cultures” by David Krueger. Religion, Morality and the Professions in America. The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana University.
  • “’Mercy’ ad campaign urges Saudis to treat foreign workforce humanely” by Caryle Murphy. Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 10, 2008.
  • “Religion and Advertising” by Peter Steinfels. New York Times, Dec. 18, 2004.
  • “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.
  • “Spirituality in Advertising: A New Theoretical Approach” by Marmor-Lavie, Galit, Patricia A. Stout, and Wei-Na Lee. Journal of Media and Religion. 8, no. 1 (2009): 1-23.
  • “The influence of religion on attitudes towards the advertising of controversial products.” Kim Shyan Fam, David S. Waller, B. Zafer Erdogan. European Journal of Marketing. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. 2004, Vol. 38, Issue 5/6, pgs. 537-555.
  • “The Presence of Religious Symbols and Values in Advertising” by David Fairfield and Madeline Johnson. Diversity in Advertising. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.
  • “Unlikely pairing of religion, advertising produces two honored campaigns” by Peter Van Allen. Philadelphia Business Journal, July 22, 2005.
  • “Walking Fine Line of Faith in Advertising” by Jordan Weissmann. The Washington Post, Oct. 25, 2008.