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The Center on Religion & the Professions works to improve the religious 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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Readings

Ian G. Barbour, Ethics in an Age of Technology (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993).

Albert Borgmann, Power Failure: Christianity in the Culture of Technology (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brazos Press, 2003).

Albert Borgmann, Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).

Andrew Feenberg, Questioning Technology (New York: Routledge, 1999).

Richard Heinberg, Cloning the Buddha: The Moral Impact of Biotechnology (Wheaton, Ill.: Quest Books, 1999).

Ray Kurzweil, Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (New York: Viking, 1999).

Carl Mitcham, Thinking Through Technology: The Path Between Engineering and Philosophy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).

Jay Newman, Religion and Technology: A Study in the Philosophy of Culture (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1997).

David F. Noble, Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention (New York: Knopf, 1997).

Ted Peters and Gaymon Bennett (eds.), Bridging Science and Religion (London: SCM, 2002).

Petroski, Henry, To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (New York: Vintage Books, 1992).

Petroski, Henry, Evolution of Useful Things (New York: Vintage Books, 1994).

Pool, Robert, Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

See more ideas of how religion impacts engineering here.

See abstracts of recent articles about religion and engineering here.



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.


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

Associations

See list of professional and faith organizations here.

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