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The Center on Religion & the Professions works to improve the religous literacy of professionals, to help them serve a diverse public.


We help professionals better understand religion in the lives of those they serve by:

•   Supporting ground-breaking research on how religion impacts people and encouraging its use by the appropriate professionals;
•   Creating resources and training to improve the religious literacies among professionals;
•   Developing and testing curriculum in religion for all disciplines;
•   Presenting public forums and other activities to increase the visibility of religion in the public sphere.


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Faculty and Fellow Publications 2007

Benson, J. Kenneth. Theoretical paper, "Desecularization of the Professions: Some Possibilities," to be presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, Ill., April 2007

Benson, J. Kenneth. "The Professions and Their Publics: A Report on Two Surveys," book chapter, Professional Creativity & the Common Good (in editing).

Burgoyne, Suzanne, Peggy Placier, Mallory Thomas, Sharon Welch, Clyde Ruffin, Lisa Y. Flores, Elif Celebi, Noor Azizan-Gardner, and Marilyn Miller. "Interactive Theatre and Self-Efficacy," New Directions in Teaching and Learning. Invited book chapter for Carnegie "cluster" volume, planned for publication in 2007.

Burgoyne, Suzanne. Chapter on Arthur Miller's The Crucible: "From Battleground to Common Ground: Engaging Citizens in a Deeper Democracy; Stories of Conflict, Transformation and Reconciliation," ed. William Timpson, Norberto Valdez and David Giffey. Madison, WI: Atwood, 2007.

Burgoyne, Suzanne, Peggy Placier, Mallory Thomas, and Sharon Welch, "Reactions to Interactive Theatre as a Path toward Multicultural Teaching." Grounded theory study of focus group and email survey reactions to Carnegie 3-year interactive theatre project. In submission to Theatre Topics.

Cameron, G. T., Pang, A., & Jin, Y. (2007) Contingency theory: Strategic management of conflict in public relations. In T. Hansen-Horn & B. Neff (Eds.), Public relations: From theory to practice (pp. 134-157). Boston, MA: Pearson Allyn & Bacon.

Campbell, JD, Yoon, D and Johnstone, B. "Exploring the Relationships Between Religion/Spirituality and Physical Health in Primary Care, Cancer, Spinal Cord Injury, Brain Injury, and Stroke Patients", submitted to the Annals of Family Medicine October 2007.

Cohen, Daniel. "College fraternity and sorority membership, religious affiliation, and the separation of Church and State," Academy for Educational Studies book of essays (forthcoming).

Cohen, Yoon, and Johnstone. (under review). Differentiating the Impact of Spirituality and Religious Factors on General Mental Health for a Sample with Heterogeneous Medical Disorders.

Esbeck, Carl. When Accommodations for Religion Violate the Establishment Clause: Regularizing the Supreme Court's Analysis, 110 W. VA. L. REV. (forthcoming 2007).

Esbeck, Carl. The 60th Anniversary of the Everson Decision and America's Church-State Proposition, 23 J. OF LAW AND RELIGION (forthcoming 2007).

Esbeck, Carl. Regulation of Religious Organizations via Governmental Financial Assistance; Appendix: Charitable Choice and the Critics. Religion Organizations in the United States, August 2007.

Franklin, Yoon, Acuff, and Johnstone. (under review). Relationships Among Religiousness, Spirituality, and Health for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury.

Jacob, JL and Campbell, JD. "Do religion and spirituality affect your health?" Chronicles in Aging, Summer 2007, pp. 4-5.

Johnstone, B., Glass, B., & Oliver, R.O. "Religion and Disability: Clinical, research and training considerations for rehabilitation professionals." Disability and Rehabilitation.

Johnstone, B. & Glass, B. (under review). Evaluation of a Neuropsychological Model of Spirituality in Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury. Zygon.

Johnston, B. (June 12, 2007). Role of Spiritualiity and Religion in Recovery from Trauma. International Center for Psychosocial Trauma: 13th Annual Conference, Columbia, Mo.

Johnstone, Yoon, Franklin, Schopp, and Hinkebein. (under review). Re-conceptualizing the Factor Structure of the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality.

Johnstone, Burris, Yoon, Shigaki, and Franklin (under review). Relationships among religiousness, spirituality, and health for persons with stroke.

Johnston, B. (June 12, 2007). Role of Spiritualiity and Religion in Recovery from Trauma. International Center for Psychosocial Trauma: 13th Annual Conference, Columbia, Mo.

Lambeth, Edmund. "Wanted: Leaders, Journalists, Scholars, and Citizens with the Right Stuff: A Reflection on Conflict, Journalism, and Democracy." Journal of Dispute Resolution pp. 247-253 (summer 2007).

Littau, J., & Slagle, M. (2007). For God and country: The media and national security. In P. Paterson & L. Wilkins (Eds.), Media ethics: Issues and cases (pp. 200-202). New York: McGraw Hill.

Littau, J., Thorson, E., Bentley, C. (2007). Citizen Journalism and Community Building: Predictive Measures of Social Capital Generation. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Washington, D.C.

Littau, J. (2007). Content Differences for an Online Newspaper Site and its Citizen Journalism Publication. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Washington, D.C.

Mahalik, J. L., Johnstone, B., Glass, B., & Yoon, D. P. (2007). Spirituality, psychological coping, and community integration for persons with traumatic brain injury. Journal of Religion, Disability & Health, 11 (3), 65-77.

Mason, Debra, Houston, Brant, editors, Investigating Religion and Nonprofits: A Guide for Journalists, Investigative Reporters and Editors, (in editing).

Mason, Debra, Gibson, David. "What if God were one of our readers? A Divine readership survey," The American Editor, American Society of Newspaper Editors, pp 5-8 (January-February 2007)

Pang, A., Jin, Y., & Cameron, G.T. (2007). Convention paper, "Contingency theory of strategic conflict management: A decade of theory development, discovery, and dialogue." Public Relations Division, International Communication Association, San Francisco, CA.

Qi Qiu & Cameron, G.T. "A Public Relations Perspective to Manage Conflict in a Public Health Crisis," Dispute Resolution Journal (in press).

Reuben, Richard, Thorson, Esther, & Grinfeld, Michael, News Reporting and its Impact on Conflict (in progress) (edited volume based on September 2006 symposium) Beyond the Assumptions: News Reporting and its Impact on Conflict.

Yoon, Dong Pil, & Lee, Eun-Kyoung Othelia. "The impact of religiousness/spirituality and social support on psychological well-being among older adults in rural areas," Journal of Gerontological Social Work 48(3/4) (2007).


God, Media and More
A blog about faith, values and spirituality in the media, from CORP faculty, staff and friends.

ReligiousLife@MU
A blog about religious life at the University of Missouri-Columbia.


Curious about how religion affects your profession? Click on your discipline for some ideas.


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Read the latest surveys and polls on religion, beliefs, trends and current events here.

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See list of professional and faith organizations here.

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Read scholarly and professional journals about religion and medicine, journalism, political science and more here.

 

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