1. "Paradise Lost: Childhood Punishment and the Myth of Adam's Sin."

Book chapter, in Kille, Andrew D., and Daschke, D., eds. A Cry Instead of Justice: The Bible and Cultures of Violence in Psychological Perspective. T&T Clark: New York, in press (pub date: Feb. 2010).

2. "Religious Behavior as a Reflection of Childhood Corporal Punishment"

Book chapter, in Feierman, Jay R., ed. The Biology of Religious Behavior, Praeger: Westport, 2009.

3. "What the History of Childhood Reveals about New Testament Origins and the Psychology of Christian Belief."

Article, in CSER Review 2007, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 11-16.

4. "The Shaping of Religious Narratives and Salvation Theologies by Painful Childhood Experience."

Article, submitted for publication; currently being peer-reviewed. This lengthy article explores aspects of Christianity in depth and then provides a cross-religious perspective on Judaism and Islam, karmic religions, and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter.

5. Book manuscript on Christianity, with a substantial epilogue on other religions and myths.

In progress.

6. Article- and chapter-length writings on the impact of painful childhood experience on religious life, in various stages of preparation.

Topics include Paul on sin, law, and death; John's Gospel; Augustine's Confessions; Luther on justification; Rudolf Otto's The Idea of the Holy; asceticism; and monasticism.

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