Center on Religion & the Professions

Improving religious literacy among professionals.

Economics and finance: Recent research

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  • Banaji, Jairus. “Islam, the Mediterranean and the Rise of Capitalism.” Historical Materialism. 15, no. 1 (2007): 47-74.
  • Callen, Jeffrey L.; Mindy Morel and Grant Richardson. “Do culture and religion mitigate earnings management? Evidence from a cross-country analysis.” International Journal of Disclosure and Governance. Vol. 8, No. 1 (2011): 103-21.
  • Granger, Maury D. and Gregory N. Price. “The Tree of Science and Original Sin: Do Christian Religious Beliefs Constrain the Supply of Scientists?” Journal of Socio-Economics. 36, no. 1 (2007): 144-60.
  • Haught, James A. “My God, How the Money Rolls In.” Free Inquiry. 27, no. 1 (2007): 51-2.
  • Heftier, Robert W. “Islamic Economics and Global Capitalism.” Society. Vol. 44, No. 1 (2006): 16-22.
  • Lindrooth, Richard C. and Burton A. Weisbrod. “Do Religious Nonprofit and For-profit Organizations Respond Differently to Financial Incentives? The hospice industry.” Journal of Health Economics. 26, no. 2 (2007): 342-57.Society. 44, no. 1 (2006): 16-22.
  • Renneboog, Luc and Chirstophe Spaenjers. “Religion, Economic Attitudes, and Household Finance.” Oxford Economic Papers. Jan. 27, 2011.
  • Roth, Louise Marie and Jeffrey Kroll. “Risky Business: Assessing Risk Preference Explanations for Gender Differences in Religiosity.” American Sociological Review. 72, no. 2 (2007): 205-20.
  • Woodberry, Robert. “The Economic Consequences of Pentecostal Belief.” Society. 44, no. 1 (2006): 29-35.

Computers: Recent research

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  • Foltz, Franz A and Frederick A. Foltz. “Technology, Religion, and Justice: The Problems of Disembedded and Disembodied Law.” Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society. 26, no. 6 (2006): 463-71.
  • Starrett, Gregory. “Islam in the Digital Age: E-Jihad, Online Fatwas, and Cyber Islamic Environments.” History of Religions. 46, no. 3 (2007): 268-71.
  • Campbell, Heidi. “Religion and the Internet in the Israeli Orthodox context.” Israel Affairs. Vol. 17, No. 3 (July 2011): 364-83.
  • Cheong, Pauline Hope; Jessie P.H. Poon; Shirlena Huang and Irene Casas. “The Internet Highway and Religious Communities: Mapping and Contesting Spaces in Religion-Online.” The Information Society. Vol. 25, no. 5 (Sept. 2009): 291-302.

Communication: Recent research

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  • Meyer, Birgit. “Religious Revelation, Secrecy and the Limits of Visual Representation.” Anthropological Theory. 6, no. 4 (2006): 431-53.
  • Dumanig, Francisco Perlas, Maya Khemlani David and Ceasar Dewalis. “Conversion narratives and construction of identity among Christians in Malaysia.” Multilingua. 30, no. 3/4 (2011): 319-31.
  • Eisenlohr, Patrick. “Media authenticity and authority in Mauritius: On the mediality of language in religion.” Language & Communication. Vol. 31, No. 3 (July 2011): 266-73.

Black Studies: Recent research

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  • 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.
  • Giggie, John M. “The African-American Holiness Movement.” Society. 44, no. 1 (2006): 50-9.
  • King, Sharon V., et al. “The Religious Dimensions of the Grandparent Role in Three-Generation African American Households.” Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging. 19, no. 1 (2006): 75-96.
  • Little, Monroe H. Jr. “Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America.” Indiana Magazine of History. 102, no. 4 (2006): 392-3.
  • Mailloux, Steven. “Thinking With Rhetorical Figures: Performing Racial and Disciplinary Identities in Late-Nineteenth-Century America.” American Literary History. 18, no. 4 (2006): 695-711.
  • Maldonado-Torres, Nelson. “Black Puerto Rican Identity and Religious Experience.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 74, no. 4 (2006): 1011-4.
  • Potter, Hillary. “Battered Black Women’s Use of Religious Services and Spirituality for Assistance in Leaving Abusive Relationships.” Violence Against Women. 13, no. 3 (2007): 262-84.
  • Swartz, Sharlene. “A Long Walk to Citizenship: Morality, Justice and Faith in the Aftermath of Apartheid.” Journal of Moral Education. 34, no. 4 (2006): 551-70.

Biology: Recent research

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  • Farimani, Mohammad and Zygon Motahari. “Islamic Philosophy and the Challenge of Cloning.” Journal of Religion & Science. 42 no. 1 (2007): 145-51.
  • Gutala, Ramana, et al. “A Shared Y-Chromosomal Heritage Between Muslims and Hindus in India.” Human Genetics. 120, no. 4 (2006): 543-551.
  • Moore, James. “R. A. Fisher: a Faith Fit for Eugenics.” Studies in History & Philosophy of Biological & Biomedical Sciences. 38 no. 1 (2007): 110-35.

Art: Recent research

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  • Gluck, Robert. “The Shiraz Arts Festival: Western Avant-Garde Arts in 1970s Iran.” Leonardo. 20, no. 1 (2007): 20-8.
  • Jaffe, Richard M. “Buddhist Material Culture, ‘Indianism,’ and the Construction of Pan-Asian Buddhism in Prewar Japan.” Material Religion. 2, no. 3 (2006): 266-292.
  • Melvin, Meg. “The Gift of Form: Brassal and the Crypt of Saint-Sulpice.” History of Photography. 30, no. 4 (2006): 359-71.
  • Renard, John G. “Around the World in Religion and the Arts: Defining the Study of Islamic Art.” Religion and the Arts. 10, no. 4 (2006): 539-55.
  • Steinberg, Faith, “Women and the Dura-Europos Synagogue Paintings.” Religion and the Arts. 10, no. 4 (2006): 461-96.
  • Troughton, Geoffrey. “Light at the End of the Word.” Australian Historical Studies. 37, no. 128. (2006): 55-71.
  • Wen-shing Chou. “Ineffable Paths: Mapping Wutaishan in Qing Dynasty China.” Art Bulletin. 89, no. 1 (2007): 108-29.

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.

Anthropology and archaeology: Recent research

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  • Benard, Akeia A. “The Material Roots of Rastafarian Marijuana Symbolism.” History & Anthropology. 18, no. 1 (2007): 89-99.
  • Bloch, Maurice. “Religion and Morality: An Anthropological Comment.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 29, no. 5 (2006): 465-6.
  • Briault, Camilla. “Making Mountains Out of Molehills in the Bronze Age Aegean: Visibility, Ritual Kits, and the Idea of a Peak Sanctuary.” World Archaeology. 39, no. 1 (2007): 122-41.
  • Carpenter, Karen A. “Limiting Principles and Empowering Practices in American Indian Religious Freedoms.” Connecticut Law Review 45.2 (2012): forthcoming.
  • Meyer, Birgit. “Religious Revelation, Secrecy and the Limits of Visual Representation.” Anthropological Theory. 6, no. 4 (2006): 431-53.
  • Müller-Kessler, C., T.C. Mitchell and M.I. Hockey. “An Inscribed Silver Amulet from Samaria.” Palestine Exploration Quarterly. 139, no. 1 (2007): 5-19.
  • Porter, Adam L. “The Sepphoris Synagogue: Deciphering an Ancient Message Through Its Archaeological and Socio-Historical Contexts.” American Journal of Archaeology. 111, no. 1 (2007): 179.
  • Rountree, Kathryn. “Performing the Divine: Neo-Pagan Pilgrimages and Embodiment at Sacred Sites.” Body and Society. 12, no. 4 (2006): 95-115.
  • Stohlman, Sarah. “At Yesenia’s House…” Qualitative Sociology. 30, no. 1 (2007): 61-80.