Center on Religion & the Professions

Improving religious literacy among professionals.

Philosophy: Recent research

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  • Brown, Alison. “Philosophy and Religion in Machiavelli.” The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli. John M. Najemy (ed.). Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  • Jiang, Shanhe; Eric G. Lambert; Jin Wang; Toyoji Saito and Rebecca Pilot. “Death penalty views in China, Japan and the U.S.: An empirical comparison.” Journal of Criminal Justice. Vol. 38, No. 5 (Oct. 2010): 862-9.
  • Murphy, Nancey. “Cosmopolis: How Astronomy Affects Philosophies of Human Nature and Religion.” Analecta Husserliana. Vol. 107, No. 3 (2011): 175-85.
  • Nakagawa, Yoshiharu. “Oriental Philosophy and Interreligious Education: Inspired by Toshihiko Izutsu’s Reconstruction of ‘Oriental Philosophy.'” International Handbook of Inter-Religious Education. Vol. 4, No. 2 (2010): 325-39.
  • Strong, Carson. “Why Public Policy on Embryo Research Should Not Be Based on Religion.” The American Journal of Bioethics. Vol. 11, No. 3 (2011): 33-5.

Music: Recent research

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  • Capwell, Charles. “From ‘Dust’ to Platinum: Global Currents through the Malay World of Musical Islam.” Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia. David Harnish, Anne Rasmussen (eds.). Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • Hoffman, Adria R. “Rethinking Religion in Music Education.” Music Educators Journal. Vol. 97, No. 4 (June 2011): 55-9.
  • Schofield, Katherine Butler. “Reviving the Golden Age Again: ‘Classicization,’ Hindustani Music, and the Mughals.” Ethnomusicology. Vol. 54, No. 3 (Fall 2010): 484-517.

Military and public safety: Recent research

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  • Brewer, Edward C. and Kay Taylor. “Managing Collaboration in the Thirty Years War: Culture, Politics and the Influence of Donald Wildmon.” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture> Vol. 23, No. 1 (April 2011): 1-13.
  • Levy, Yagil. “The Clash between Feminism and Religion in the Israeli Military: A Multilayered Analysis.” Social Politics. Vol. 17, No. 2 (March 2010): 185-209.
  • McLaughlin, Sandra S. MD; Andrew D. McLaughlin, MD and John A. Van Slyke, DO. “Faith and Religious Beliefs in an Outpatient Military Population.” Southern Medical Journal. Vol. 103, No. 6 (June 2010): 527-31.

Law: Recent research

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Journalism and media: Recent research

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  • Cane, Robert. “Cartoon Crisis: Islam and Danish Liberalism.” Society. 44, no. 1 (2006): 80-8.
  • Ferre, John P. “‘A Dozen Best’: Top Books on the History of Media and Religion.” American Journalism. 23, no. 4 (2006): 135-43.
  • Post, Robert. “Religion and Freedom of Speech: Portraits of Muhammad.” Constellations: An International Journal of Critical & Democratic Theory. 14, no. 1 (2007): 72-90.
  • Steele, Janet. “Justice and journalism: Islam and journalistic values in Indonesia and Malaysia.” Journalism. Vol. 12, No. 5 (July 2011): 533-49.
  • Vultee, Fred. “Fatwa on the Bunny.” Journal of Communication Inquiry. 30, no. 4 (2006): 319-36.
  • Yao, Qingjiang, Daniel A. Stout and Zhaoxi Liu. “China’s Official Media Portrayal of Religion (1996–2005): Policy Change in a Desecularizing Society.” Journal of Media and Religion. Vol. 10, No. 1 (2011): 39-50.

Human development: Recent research

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  • Adamczyk, Amy and Jacob Felson. “Friends’ Religiosity and First Sex.” Social Science Research. 35, no. 4 (2006): 924-47.
  • Beck, Jan and Wolfgang Forstmeier. “Superstition and Belief as Inevitable By-products of an Adaptive Learning Strategy.” Human Nature. 18, no. 1 (2007): 35-46.
  • Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin. “Parenting, Not Religion, Makes Us Into Moral Agents.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 29, no. 5 (2006): 464-5.
  • Bishop, Alex. “Age and Gender Differences in Adaptation and Subjective Well-Being of Older Adults Residing in Monastic Religious Communities.” Pastoral Psychology. 55, no. 2 (2006): 131-43.
  • Bloom, Paul. “Religion is Natural.” Developmental Science. 10, no. 1 (2007): 147-51.
  • Bulanda, Jennifer Roebuck. “Doing Family, Doing Gender, Doing Religion: Structured Ambivalence and the Religion-Family Connection.” Journal of Family Theory & Review. Vol. 3, No. 3 (Sept. 2011): 179-97.
  • Edgell, Penny and Danielle Docka. “Beyond the Nuclear Family? Familism and Gender Ideology in Diverse Religious Communities.” Sociological Forum. 22, no. 1 (2007): 26-51.
  • Erricker, Clive. “Children’s Spirituality and Postmodern Faith.” International Journal of Children’s Spirituality. 12, no. 1 (2007): 51-60.
  • Lambert, Nathaniel M. “How Religiosity Helps Couples Prevent, Resolve, and Overcome Marital Conflict.” Family Relations. 55, no. 4 (2006): 439-49.
  • Legaree, Terri-Ann, Jean Turner and Susan Lollis. “Forgiveness and Therapy: A Critical Review of Conceptualizations, Practices, and Values Found in the Literature.” Journal of Marital & Family Therapy. 33, no. 2 (2007): 192-213.
  • Mahoney, Annette. “Religion in Families 1999-2009: A Relational Spirituality Framework.” Journal of Marriage and Family. Vol. 72, No. 4 (Aug. 2010): 805-27.
  • Pickering, Lloyd E and Alexander T. Vazsonyi. “Does Family Process Mediate the Effect of Religiosity on Adolescent Deviance? Revisiting the Notion of Spuriousness.” Criminal Justice and Behavior. Vol. 37, No. 1 (Jan. 2010): 97-118.
  • Sadler, Euan and Simon Biggs. “Exploring the Links Between Spirituality and ‘Successful Ageing.'” Journal of Social Work Practice. 20, no. 3 (2006): 267-80.
  • Schouten, Barbara C., et. al. “Parent–adolescent communication about sexuality: The role of adolescents’ beliefs, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control.” Patient Education & Counseling. 66, no. 1 (2007): 75-83.
  • Sinha, Jill W., Ram A. Cnaan and Richard J. Gelles. “Adolescent Risk Behaviors and Religion: Findings From a National Study.” Journal of Adolescence. 30, no. 2 (2007): 231-249.

History and social sciences: Recent research

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  • Babik, Milan. “Nazism as a Secular Religion.” History and Theory. 45, no. 3 (2006): 375-396.
  • Copland, Ian. “Christianity as an Arm of Empire: The Ambiguous Case of India Under the Company, c. 1813-1858.” Historical Journal. 49, no. 4 (2006): 1025-54.
  • Dhavan, Purnima, Kym S. Rice and Benjamin Filene. “Sikh Community: Over 100 Years in the Pacific Northwest.” Journal of American History. 93, no. 3 (2006): 819-21.
  • Hames, Harvey J. “The Limits of Conversion: Ritual Murder and the Virgin Mary in the Account of Adam of Bristol.” Journal of Medieval History. 33 no. 1 (2007): 43-59.
  • Jordon, Ryan. “The Dilemma of Quaker Pacifism in a Slaveholding Republic, 1833-1865.” Civil War History. 53, no. 1 (2007): 5-28.
  • Kamat, Sangeeta and Biju Mathew. “Religion, education and the politics of recognition: a critique and a counter‐proposal.” Comparative Education. Vol. 46, No. 3 (2010): 359-76.
  • Mack, Michael. “The Savage Science: Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis, and the History of Religion.” Journal of Religious History. 30, no. 3 (2006): 331-53.
  • Sparks, Randy J. “The Southern Way of Death: The Meaning of Death in Antebellum White Evangelical Culture.” Southern Quarterly. 44, no. 1 (2006): 32-50.
  • Stenhouse, John. “Nature and the Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795-1850.” International History Review. 29 no. 1 (2007): 143-5.

Health Professions/Health Care/Medicine: Recent research

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  • Scheitle, Christopher P. and Amy Adamczyk. “High-cost Religion, Religious Switching, and Health.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 51, no. 3 (2010): 325-342.
  • Inhorn, M.C. and G.I. Serour. “Islam, medicine, and Arab-Muslim refugee health in America after 9/11.” Lancet. Vol. 378, No. 9794 (Sept. 3 2011): 935-43.
  • F.D. Yates, Jr. “Ethics for the pediatrician: religion and spirituality in pediatrics.” Pediatrics in Review. Vol. 32, No. 9 (Sept 2011): 91-4.

German and Russian languages: Recent research

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  • Gilman, Sander L. “There Ain’t No There There: Reimagining Eastern European Jewish Culture in the 21st Century.” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 25, no. 1 (2006): 1-4.
  • Mitrokhin, L.N. “Philosophy of Religion.” Russian Studies in Philosophy. 45, no. 3 (2006): 6-34.
  • Mitrokhin, L.N. “Philosophy of Religion: New Perspectives.” Russian Social Science Review. 48, no. 2 (2007): 51-78.
  • Ream, Todd C. “Pragmatism and the Unlikely Influence of German Idealism on the Academy in the United States.” Educational Philosophy & Theory. 39 no. 2 (2007): 150-67.
  • Tzoref-Ashkenazi, Chen. “The status of Hebrew in Friedrich Schlegel’s Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier.” German Life & Letters. 60 no. 2 (2007): 165-79.

Film and theater: Recent research

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  • Chansky, Dorothy. “North American Passion Plays.” The Drama Review. 50, no. 4 (2006): 120-45.
  • Cobb, Michael. “God Hates Cowboys (Kind Of).” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 13, no. 1 (2007): 102-5.
  • Edgar, David. “Shouting Fire: Art, Religion and the Right to Be Offended.” Race and Class. 48, no. 2 (2006): 61-76.
  • Henley, Paul. “Spirit Possession, Power, and the Absent Presence of Islam: Re-Viewing Les Maîtres Fous.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 12, no. 4 (2006): 731-61.
  • Lawrence, Amy. “Constructing a Priest, Silencing a Saint: The PCA and I Confess (1953).” Film History. 19, no. 1 (2007): 52-72.
  • Middlemas, Jill. “Ecclesiastes Gone ‘Sideways.’” Expository Times. 118, no. 5 (2007): 216-21.
  • Spector, Judith A and Katherine V. Tsiopos Willis. “The Aesthetics of Materialism in Alan Ball’s American Beauty.” Midwest Quarterly. 48, no. 2 (2007): 279-96.
  • van Zoonen, Liesbet, Farida Vis and Sabina Mihelj. “YouTube interactions between agonism, antagonism and dialogue: Video responses to the anti-Islam film ‘Fitna’.” New Media & Society. Vol. 13, No. 4 (June 2011).
  • Wax, Jeff. “Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen.” Theatre Journal. 58, no. 4 (2006): 716-7.
  • Yelle, Robert A. “To Perform, or Not to Perform? A Theory of Ritual Performance Versus Cognitive Theories of Religious Transmission.” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion. 18, no. 4 (2006): 372-91.