Recent Faculty Publications in Religion

Bhogal, Balbinder. 2011. “Monopolizing Violence Before and After 1984: Governmental Law and the People's Passion.” Sikh Formations Religion, Culture, Theory Vol.7, No.1, pp.57-82.

Burlein, Ann. 2011. “Learning to Drink Deeply from Books: Using Experiential Assignments to Teach Concepts.” Teaching Theology and Religion.  Vol.14, No. 2. pp. 137-155.

Ann Burlein. 2010. “Looking for Religion in All the Wrong Places.”  Council for the Scientific Study of Religion Bulletin. Vol.39, No.4. pp. 31-35.

Teehan, John. 2010. In the Name of God: the Evolutionary Origins of Religious Ethics and Religious Violence. Boston: Wiley-Blackwell.

Teehan, John. 2009. “Judaism in Biological Perspective: Biblical Lore and Judaic Practices.” Evolutionary Psychology. Vol.7, No.1. pp. 82-88.

Teehan, John. 2009. “The Evolved Brain: Understanding Religious Ethics and Religious Violence.” In The Moral Brain: Evolutionary and Neuroscientific Perspectives. J. Verplaetse, ed. pp. 233-254. Springer Press.

Teehan, John. 2007. “Temperance.” American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia. John Lachs and Robert B. Talisse, eds. Routledge.

Teehan, John. 2007. “Evolution.” American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia. John Lachs and Robert B. Talisse, eds. Routledge.

Burlein, Ann. 2007. 2 Twisted: The Book and the Gene. Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds, Vol. 3, No.1, pp. 31-56.

Bhogal, Balbinder. 2007. “Text as Sword: Sikh Religious Violence Taken for Wonder.” In Religion and Violence in South Asia: Theory and Practice. R.King and J .Hinnells, eds.pp.  107-135.

Bhogal, Balbinder. 2007. “Ghostly Disorientations: Translating the Adi Granth as the Guru Granth.”  Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory. Vol.3, No. 1. pp. 13-31.

Teehan, John. 2006. “The Evolutionary Basis of Religious Ethics.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. Vol.41, No.3. pp. 747-774.

Kaufman, David. 2006. “Women and Jewish Education”. Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America. Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether, eds. Indiana University Press.

Teehan, John. 2005. “The Evolution of Religious Ethics.” Free Inquiry Vol. 25, No.4.

Kaufman, David,  D. Gordis and Z. Heller. 2005. “Re-envisioning the Synagogue: Challenges and Opportunities” In Re-envisioning the Synagogue, ed. Z. Heller. The National Center for Jewish Policy Studies at Hebrew College.

Kaufman, David,  D. Gordis and Z. Heller. 2005.”The Synagogue as Mediating Institution.” In Re-envisioning the Synagogue, ed. Z. Heller. The National Center for Jewish Policy Studies at Hebrew College.

Burlein, Ann. 2005. “The Productive Power of Ambiguity: Rethinking Homosexuality through the Virtual and Developmental Systems Theory.” Hypatia Vol. 20, No. 1. pp. 21-53.

Bhogal, Balbinder. 2005. “Questioning Hermeneutics with Freud: How to Interpret Dreams and Mute-Speech in Sikh Scripture?” Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory Vol. 1, no. 1. pp. 93-125.

Teehan, John, and Christopher DiCarlo. 2004. “On the Naturalistic Fallacy: a Conceptual Basis for Evolutionary Ethics.” Evolutionary Psychology Vol. 2. Pp. 32-46.

Kaufman, David. 2004. “American Jewish History: 350 Years in 3 Easy Lessons.” Jewish Education News Vol. 25, no. 3. Pp. 25-27, 46.

Ann Burlein. 2004. “Christian Right.” The Encyclopedia of Protestantism. Routledge. Pp. 403-404.

Teehan, John. 2003. “Kantian Ethics: After Darwin.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science Vol. 38, No. 1. Pp. 49-60.

Teehan, John. 2003.”Evolution and the Possibility of Ethics: a Humanist Response to Immanuel Kant and Pope John Paul II.”  Journal of Religious Humanism Vol. 35, No. 3/4. Pp 17-28.

Kaufman, David.  2003. “Early Synagogue Architecture in California (1854-1902).” In Jews of California, Marc Dollinger and Ava Kahn eds. University of New Hampshire Press. pp.40-56.

Julie Byrne. 2003. O God of Players: The Story of the Immaculata Mighty Macs. Columbia University Press.

Burlein, Ann. 2003. “Negotiating the Paradox of Virtual Embodiment in the Classroom: Virtual Ethnicity, the Assumption of Access, and the Seductions of Potential.” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture V.

Teehan, John. 2002. “Evolution and Ethics: The Huxley/Dewley Exchange.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy Vol. 16, No. 3. pp.225-238.

Burlein, Ann. 2002. Lift High the Cross: Where White Supremacy and the Christian Right Converge. Duke University Press.

Bhogal, Balbinder. 2002. “Cross-Cultural Dialogues with Western Fictions: There is no Hindu nor Muslim- nor Sikh.”  Multi-Faith Britain: An Experiment in Worship. pp. 41-55. O Books, Hampshire, United Kingdom.

Teehan, John. 2001. “Noble Humanism: A Post-Darwinian Moral Ideal.” In Possibility of the Impossible: Planetary for Russia and the World, Valerii Kuvakin, ed., pp. 201-212. Moscow: Russian Humanist Society.

Bhogal, Balbinder. 2001. “On the Hermeneutics of Sikh Thought and Praxis.” In Sikh Religion, Culture, and Ethnicity, Shackle, Singh and Mandair, eds.  Taylor and Francis Inc. . pp. 72-96.

Kaufman, David. 2000. “Constructions of Memory: The Synagogues of the Lower East Side.” In Remembering the Lower East Side: American Jewish Reflections, Diner, Shandler and Wenger, eds.  Indiana University Press. pp. 113-136.