Center on Religion & the Professions

Improving religious literacy among professionals.

Women’s studies and gender studies: Books

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  • Women, Gender, and Radical Religion in Early Modern Europe. Sylvia Monica Brown (ed.). BRILL, 2007.
  • Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe: New Perspectives. Lisa M. Bitel and Felice Lifshitz (eds.). University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
  • Contextualizing Gender in Early Christian Discourse: Thinking Beyond Thecla. Caroline Vander Stichele and Todd Penner. T & T Clark International, 2009.
  • Women’s Studies in Religion: A Multicultural Reader. Kate Bagley and Kathleen McIntosh. Prentice Hall, 2006.
  • Literature, Theology and Feminism. Heather Walton. Manchester University Press, 2008.
  • Women in Religion. Mary Pat Fisher. Longman, 2006.
  • A Feminist Philosophy of Religion. Pamela Sue Anderson. Blackwell Pub., 1997.
  • Women in scripture: a dictionary of named and unnamed women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books, and the New Testament. Carol L. Meyers, Toni Craven and Ross Shepard Kraemer. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000.
  • Feminism in the study of religion: a reader. Darlene M. Juschka. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001.
  • Reason, Religion, and Morals. Frances Wright. Humanity Books, 2004.
  • Encyclopedia of women in religious art. Diane Apostolos-Cappadona. Oxford University Press, 1998.
  • Man’s Dominion: The Rise of Religion and the Eclipse of Women’s Rights. Sheila Jeffreys. Routledge, 2011.
  • Faith, Belief, and Scripture: Anglicanism and Homosexuality. Rob James. Common Ground Publishing, 2011.
  • Women, gender, religion: a reader. Elizabeth Anne Castelli and Rosamond C. Rodman (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
  • Encountering the transnational: women, Islam and the politics of interpretation. Meena Sharify-Funk. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008.
  • A Biblical Case for Equality. Arden Thiessen Essence Publishing, 2002.
  • Being Feminist, Being Christian: Essays from Academia. Bettina Tate Pedersen. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
  • Gender, Religion and Diversity: Cross-cultural Perspectives.Ursula King(ed.). Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2005.

Veterinary: Books

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  • A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics. Paul Waldau and Kimberley Patton (eds.). Columbia University Press, 2006.
  • The Tao of Bow Wow: Understanding and Training Your Dog the Taoist Way. Deborah Wood. Dell, 1998.
  • Every Living Thing: Daily Use of Animals in Ancient Israel. Oded Borowski. Altamira Press, 1997.
  • Yuki, Temple Dog: How a California Pound Dog Became Guardian of a Japanese Buddhist Temple. Yuki. Buddhist Books Intl., 1997.
  • Animal Ethics in Context. Claire Palmer. Columbia University Press, 2010.
  • Applied Animal Ethics. Leland Shapiro. Cengage Learning, 1999.
  • Veterinary ethics: an introduction. Giles Legood (ed.). Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000.
  • The Ethics of Animal Experimentation: A Critical Analysis and Constructive Christian Proposal. Donna Yarri. American Academy of Religion, 2005.
  • The Specter of Speciesism: Buddhist and Christian Views of Animals. Paul Waldau. Oxford University Press, 2001.

Textiles: Books

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  • Islam and the Veil: Theoretical and Regional Contexts. Theodore Gabriel and Rabiha Hannan. Continuum, 2011.
  • Medieval fabrications: dress, textiles, clothwork, and other cultural imaginings. E. Jane Burns. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
  • Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (Ten-volume set). Berg Publishing. 2010.
  • Woven Wonder: The Tradition of Indian Textiles. AshaRani Mathur. Rupa & Co, 2002.
  • Weaving, Veiling and Dressing: Textiles and Their Metaphors in the Late Middle Ages. Kathryn M. Rudy. Brepols Publishers, 2007.
  • Five Generations of Indonesian Textiles. Ruth Barnes and Mary Hunt Kahlenberg (eds.). Prestel USA, 2010.
  • Ecclesiastical Dress in the Medieval Near East. Karel C. Innemee. Brill Academic Pub, 1997.
  • Designing Ecclesiastical Stitched Textiles. Beryl Dean. Search Press(UK), 1993.
  • Shaker Textile Arts. Beverly Gordon. UPNE, 1980.
  • Quilts and Women of the Mormon Migrations. Mary Bywater Cross. Thomas Nelson, 1997.
  • Clothed in Integrity: Weaving Just Cultural Relations and the Garment Industry. Barbara Paleczny. Canadian Corp. Studies in Religion, 2000.
  • Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity. Doran H. Ross, et all. UCLA, 1998.
  • Silk and religion: an exploration of material life and the thought of people, AD 600-1200. Xinru Liu. Oxford University Press US, 1998.
  • The Islamic Modern Dress. M. Mutahari. Kazi Publications (3rd ed.), 2007.
  • Undressing religion: commitment and conversion from a cross-cultural perspective. Linda B. Arthur. Berg Publishers, 2000.
  • Textiles Today: A Global Survey of Trends and Traditions. Chloë Colchester. Thames & Hudson, 2007.

Statistics: Books

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  • A Convergence of Civilizations: The Transformation of Muslim Societies Around the World. Youssef Courbage, Emmanuel Todd and George Holoch, Jr. Columbia University Press, 2011.
  • Social Statistics for a Diverse Society. Chava Frankfort-Nachmias and Anna Leon-Guerrero. Pine Forge Press, 2008.
  • Religion and Domestic Violence, Information and Resources, Statistics. National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, 2007
  • A Summary View of All Religions; Including the Creeds, Statistics, and Benevolent Operations of the Principal Protestant Sects. Daniel Wise and J. Porter. Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry, 1840.
  • Statistics for the Social Sciences. R. Mark Sirkin. Sage Publications, Inc., 2005.
  • The American Christian record: containing the history, confession of faith, and statistics of each religious denomination in the United States and Europe. Washington: D.C., Buell & Blanchard & Lea, 2009.
  • Strange Notes on Modern Statistics and Traditional Popular Religion in China: Further Reflections on the Importance of Sinology for Social Change as Applied to China. (L. Mende and M. Von Siebert (eds.). Harrassowitz Verlag, 2000.
  • Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion. Rodney Stark and Roger Finke. University of California Press, 2000.
  • Measuring the Immeasurable: The Scientific Case for Spirituality. Daniel Goleman et al. Sounds True, Incorporated, 2008.
  • Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century. Eric Kaufmann. Profile Books, 2011.

Space and physics: Books

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  • Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology. Max Jammer. Princeton University Press, 2002.
  • Theology and modern physics. Peter Edward Hodgson. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2005.
  • In Creative Evolution: A Physicist’s Resolution between Darwinism and Intelligent Design. Amit Goswami. Quest Books, 2008.
  • Islam’s Quantum Question: Reconciling Muslim Tradition and Modern Science. Nidhal Guessoum. I.B. Tauris, 2011.
  • Chemistry, Meteorology, and the Function of Digestion, Considered With Reference to Natural Theology. William Prout. Elibron Classics Series ed., 2011.
  • Religion And Chemistry; Or, Proofs Of God’s Plan In The Atmosphere And Its Element. Josiah Parsons Cooke. Kessinger Publishing, 2007 (orig. published 1864).
  • Science and Religion: A Critical Survey. Holmes Rolston. Random House, 1987.
  • What is and What Will Be: Integrating Science and Religion. Paul Budnik. Mountain Math Software, 2006.
  • Science and Religion, 400 B.C. to A.D. 1550: From Aristotle to Copernicus. Edward Grant. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
  • World in Process, Interconnection and Creativity in the New Physics. John A. Jungerman. SUNY Press, 2000
  • The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention.D. F. Noble. Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
  • Ancient Astronomy, Modern Science and Sacred Cosmology. John Wood. Kessinger Publishing, 2009 (orig. published 1882).
  • Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist. Guy Consolmagno. McGraw-Hill, 2000.
  • Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness. B. Alan Wallace. Columbia University Press, 2007.
  • Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology. Max Jammer. Princeton University Press, 1999.

Sociology and social work: Books

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  • The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman (New York, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997).
  • Sects, Cults, and Spiritual Communities: A Sociological Analysis. William W. Zellner and Marc Petrowsky. Praeger, 1998.
  • Spirituality and Religion in Social Work Practice: Decision Cases With Teaching Notes. T. Laine Scales. Council on Social Work Education, 2002.
  • Postmodernism, Religion and the Future of Social Work. Jean A Pardeck, John W Murphy and Roland Meinert. Routledge, 1998.
  • The sociology of religion. Max Weber. Beacon Press, 1993.
  • Sociology of religion: contemporary developments. Kevin J. Christiano, William H. Swatos and Peter Kivisto. Rowman Altamira, 2002.
  • An introduction to the sociology of religion: classical and contemporary perspectives. Inger Furseth and Pål Repstad. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006.
  • Handbook of the Sociology of Religion. Michele Dillon (ed.) Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  • Religion, Families, and Health: Population-Based Research in the United States. Christopher Ellison, Robert Hummer, John Bartkowski and Lisa Pearce. Rutgers University Press, 2010.
  • Conversions: Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America. Craig Harline. Yale University Press, 2011.
  • Religion Matters: What Sociology Teaches Us About Religion in Our World. Michael O. Emerson, William A. Mirola and Susanne C. Monahan. Prentice Hall, 2010.
  • Are Muslims Distinctive? A Look at the Evidence. M. Steven Fish. Oxford University Press USA, 2011.

Romance languages: Books

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  • Language, culture, and society: key topics in linguistic anthropology. Christine Jourdan and Kevin Tuite. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  • Converting Words: Maya in the Age of the Cross. William F. Hanks. University of California Press, 2010.
  • On the Latin Language. Marcus Terentius Varro (translated by R.G. Kent). Wm Heinemann Ltd., Harvard Univ. Press.
  • The Latin Language and Christianity. Paul Berry. Edwin Mellen Press, 2004.
  • Pray It in Latin, Louis Pizzuti. Lulu.com, 2006.
  • Reading French: A Guide for Students of Religion and Theology. K. Janet Ritch. Clements Publishing, 2006.
  • The politics of language: conflict, identity and cultural pluralism in comparative perspective. Carol L. Schmid. Oxford University Press US, 2001.
  • Remains of Arabic in the Spanish and Portugese Languages. Stephen Weston. Nabu Press, 2011.
  • Language, religion and national identity in Europe and the Middle East: a historical study. John Myhill. Jon Benjamins Publishing Company, 2006.
  • Monolingualism and bilingualism: lessons from Canada and Spain. Sue Wright. Multilingual Matters, 1996.
  • Local religion in colonial Mexico. Martin Austin Nesvig. UNM Press, 2006.
  • Rereading the Renaissance: Petrarch, Augustine and the Language of Humanism. Carol Everhart Quillen. University of Michigan Press, 1997.

Recreation, tourism and hospitality: Books

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  • Spiritual Tourism: Travel and Religious Practices in Western Society. Alex Norman. Continuum, 2011.
  • Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio. Thomas S. Bremer. University of North Carolina Press, 2004
  • Tourism, religion and spiritual journeys. Dallen J. Timothy, Daniel H. Olsen (eds.). Routledge, 2006.
  • Religious Tourism: The Way to Santiago. David Mashhadigholam Rojo. European Tourism Management, Bournemouth University, 2006-07.
  • Holy Hills of the Ozarks: Religion and Tourism in Branson, Missouri. Aaron K. Ketchell. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
  • Religion and Tourism: Crossroads, Destinations and Encounters. Michael Stausberg. Routledge, 2010.
  • The Changing World of Bali: Religion, Society and Tourism (The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia). Leo Howe. Routledge, 2009.
  • Holy Leisure: Recreation and Religion in God’s Square Mile. T. Roy Messenger. Temple University Press, 2000.
  • Hospitality law: managing legal issues in the hospitality industry. Stephen C. Barth and David K. Hayes. John Wiley and Sons, 2005.

Psychology and psychiatry: Books

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  • Mind, Brain and the Elusive Soul. Mark Graves. Ashgate, 2008.
  • Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion: Illusions, Delusions, and Realities about Human Nature (Templeton Science and Religion Series). Malcolm Jeeves, Warren S. Brown. Templeton Press, 2009.
  • Handbook of the psychology of religion and spirituality. Raymond F. Paloutzian and Crystal L. Park. Guilford Press, 2005.
  • The Psychology of Religion. Bernard Spilka, Ralph W. Hood, Jr., Bruce Hunsberger and Richard Gorsuch. Guilford Press, 2003.
  • Psychology and Religion: An Introduction. Michael Argyle. Routledge, 2000.
  • Religion and Psychology. Diane Elizabeth Jonte-Pace and William Barclay Parsons. Routledge, 2001.
  • Handbook of Religion and Mental Health. Harold Koenig (ed.). Academic Press, 1998.
  • Spirituality and Mental Health Care: Rediscovering a “Forgotten” Dimension. John Swinton. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001.
  • Spirituality And Mental Health: Clinical Applications. Gary W Hartz and Harold G Koenig. Routledge, 2005.
  • Psychology and Religion. Carl Gustav Jung. Yale University Press, 1960.
  • The Psychologies in Religion: Working with the Religious Client. E. Thomas Dowd and Stevan Nielson (eds.). Springer Publishing Company, 2006.
  • Towards Cultural Psychology of Religion: Principles, Approaches, Applications. Jacob A. Belzen. Springer, 2010.
  • Saints and Madmen: Psychiatry Opens Its Doors to Religion. Russell Shorto. Henry Holt and Co., 1999.
  • Psychiatry and Religion: Context, Consensus and Controversies. Dinesh K.L Bhugra (ed.) Routledge, 1996.
  • Psychiatry and religion: the convergence of mind and spirit. James K. Boehnlein (ed.). American Psychiatric Pub, 2000.
  • Handbook of spirituality and worldview in clinical practice. Allan M. Josephson and John R. Peteet (eds.). American Psychiatric Pub, 2004.

Political science and public policy: Books

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  • Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate. Terry Eagleton. Yale University Press, 2010.
  • Religion and Politics in the International System Today. Eric O. Hanson. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  • Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment. Phil Zuckerman. New York University Press, 2008.
  • Religion in American Politics: A Short History. Frank Lambert. Princeton University Press, 2008.
  • God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get it. Jim Wallis. HarperSanFrancisco, 2005.
  • From civil to political religion: the intersection of culture, religion and politics. Marcela Cristi. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2001.
  • Religion and politics in America: faith, culture, and strategic choices. Robert Booth Fowler, Allen D. Hertzke and Laura R. Olson. Westview Press, 4th ed., 2010.
  • Sacred and secular: religion and politics worldwide. Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  • Thumpin’ It: The Use and Abuse of the Bible in Today’s Presidential Politics. Jacques Berlinerblau. Westminster John Knox Press, 2007.
  • The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America. David Domke and Kevin Coe. Oxford University Press, USA, 2007.
  • Religion and politics: a reference handbook. John Woodrow Storey and Glenn H. Utter. ABC-CLIO, 2002.
  • The Constitution of Religious Freedom: God, Politics, and the First Amendment. Dennis J. Goldford. Baylor University Press, 2012.
  • Hizbu’llah: Politics and Religion. Amal Saad-Ghorayeb. Pluto Press, 2002.
  • Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy. Joseph Kosek. Columbia University Press, 2011.
  • A Judeo-Islamic Nation: The Evolution of America’s Political Theology. Thomas Mates. Mill City Press, 2011.
  • Islam and Liberal Citizenship: The Search for an Overlapping Consensus. Andrew F. March. Oxford University Press, 2011.