Religion

About the discipline

Religion has shaped much in the way of world history on every continent, from the beginning of recorded time. It impacts the public and private lives of people around the world every day. The Center on Religion & the Professions focuses on improving religious literacy among professionals to help them serve an increasingly diverse public. Read More »

Articles

  • Bell, Catherine. “Culture: What Does One Do With It Now?” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion. Vol. 18, No. 4 (2006):315-24.
  • Feuchtwang, Stephan. “On Religious Ritual as Deference and Communicative Excess.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Vol. 13, No. 1 (2007): 57-72.
  • Khalil, Mohammad Hassan and Mucahit Bilici. “Conversion Out of Islam: A Study of Conversion Narratives of Former Muslims.” Muslim World. Vol. 97, No. 1 (2007): 111-24.
  • Leming, Laura M. “Sociological Explorations: What is Religious Agency?” Sociological Quarterly. Vol. 48, No. 1 (2007): 73-92.
  • Lloyd, David. “Rage against the Divine.” South Atlantic Quarterly. Vol. 106, No. 2 (2007): 345-72.
  • Orsi, Robert A. “When 2 + 2 = 5.” American Scholar. Vol. 76, No. 2 (2007): 34-43.
  • Wills, Lawrence M. “Ascetic Theology Before Asceticism? Jewish Narratives and the Decentering of the Self.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Vol 74, No. 4 (2006): 902-25.
  • 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. Vol. 18, No. 4 (2006): 372-91.

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Recent research

  • Healey, Kevin. “The spirit of networks: new media and the changing role of religion in American public life.” Doctoral Dissertation, University of Illinois. 2011.
  • Moran, Gabriel. “Religious Education in United States’ States Schools.” International Handbook of Inter-Religous Education. Vol. 4, No. 1 (2010): 141-53.
  • Roux, Cornelia. “Religious and Human Rights Literacy as Prerequisite for Inter-religious Education.” International Handbook of Inter-Religious Education. Vol. 4, No. 4 (2010): 991-1015.
  • Skirbekk, Vegard; Eric Kaufmann and Anne Goujon. “Secularism, Fundamentalism, or Catholicism? The Religious Composition of the United States to 2043.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. Vol. 49, No. 2 (June 2010): 239-310.
  • Volpi, Frederic. “Framing Civility in the Middle East: alternative perspectives on the state and civil society.” Third World Quarterly. Vol. 32, No. 5 (2011): 827-43.
  • Watson, Jacqueline. “Dialogue and conflict on religion: studies of classroom interaction in European countries.” International Journal of Children’s Spirituality. Vol. 16, No. 1 (Apr. 2011): 59-60.

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