Book Chapters by Janel Curry

Curry, Janel. 2021. “Living with a Posture of Courage and Care.” In EcoHodos:  Eco-theology, Mission, and Leadership, edited by Alexander Malov, Hodos Institute, Ukraine.

Curry, Janel. 2019. “Time, Space, Worldviews and Agricultural Landscapes.” In Dutch Muck and Much More:  Dutch American in Farming, Religion, Art and Astronomy, edited by Earl Wm. Kennedy, Donald A. Luidens, and David Zwart, pp. 1-14, Holland, Michigan: Van Raalte Press.

Logan, Jerry and Janel Curry. 2016. “A Liberal Arts Education:  Seeking Lessons from Abroad.” In Western Higher Education in Asia and the Middle East:  Politics, Economics, and Pedagogy, edited by Kevin Gray, Hassan Bashir, and Stephen Keck, pp. 71-86, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Curry, Janel.  2015. “God, Nature, and Society:  Views of the Tragedies of Hurricane Katrina and the Asian Tsunami.”  In The Changing World Religion Map, edited by Stanley D. Brunn, vol 1, 237-253, Dordrecht: Springer.

Curry, Janel. 2013. “Attachment to Place and Nature in Our Search for Shalom.” In Integrating the New Science of Love and a Spirituality of Peace, edited by Christian E. Early and Annmarie L. Early, pp. 113-124, Eugene, OR:  Cascade Books.

Curry, Janel.  2011.“Cross-Boundary Faith:  The Universal and the Contextual.” In Reformed Mission In An Age of World Christianity:  Ideas for the 21st Century, edited by Shirley J. Roels, pp. 47-56, Grand Rapids:  The Calvin Press, 2011. 

Curry, Janel M. and Ronald A. Wells.  2008. “Introduction.” In Faithful Imagination in the Academy, edited by Janel Curry and Ronald A. Wells, pp. 1-9, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Curry, Janel M. 2008.  “Understanding God, Nature, and Social Structure:  A Case Study of Great Barrier Island, New Zealand.” In Faithful Imagination in the Academy, edited by Janel M. Curry and Ronald A. Wells, pp. 151-164, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Curry, Janel. 2008. “Globalization and the Problem of the Nature/Culture Boundary.” In After Modernity? Secularity, Globalization, and the Re-Enchantment of the World, edited by James K.A. Smith, pp. 183-200, Waco, TX: Baylor University Press.

Curry, Janel and David DeHeer. 2007. “Research Tracks for Undergraduates:  Calvin College Science Division.” In Designing, Implementing, and Sustaining a Research-Supportive Undergraduate Curriculum:  A Compendium of Successful Curricular Practices from Faculty and Institutions Engaged in Undergraduate Research. pp. 396-398.  Council on Undergraduate Research.

Curry, Janel M. 2003.  “National Structures and their Impact on Forest Policy:  A Canadian-United States Comparison.”  In The New Countryside: Geographic Perspectives On Rural Change edited by Kenneth B. Beesley, Hugh Millward, Brian Ilbery, and Lisa Harrington, pp. 105-123, Brandon, Manitoba:  Brandon University Rural Development Institute and St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

____________.  2003. “Social Capital and Societal Vision: A Study of Six Farm Communities in Iowa.”  In Religion as Social Capital: Producing the Common Good, edited by Corwin Smidt, pp. 139-152, Waco, TX: Baylor University Press.

____________.  2002. “The Development of an Ethic of Service to Place.”  In Commitment and Connection: Service-Learning and Christian Higher Education, edited by Gail Gunst Heffner and Claudia DeVries Beversluis, pp. 167-181, Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

____________.  2000. “Dutch Reformed Worldview and Agricultural Communities in the Midwest.” In The Dutch-American Experience: Essays in Honor of Robert P. Swierenga, edited by Hans Krabbendam and Larry Wagenaar, pp. 71-89, VU-Studies in Protestant History 5.  Amsterdam: VU University Press.

Curry-Roper, Janel M. 1998.  “Worldview and Agriculture: A Study of Two Reformed Communities in Iowa.”  In Reformed Vitality, Continuity and Change in the Face of Modernity, edited by Donald Luidens, Corwin Smidt, and Hijme Stoffels, pp. 17-32, Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

____________.  1998. “Christian Worldview and Geography: Positivism, Covenantal Relations, and The Importance of Place.”  In Geography and Worldview: A Christian Reconnaissance, edited by Henk Aay and Sander Griffioen, pp.49-60, Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

____________.  1997. “Community-Level Worldviews and the Sustainability of Agriculture.”  In Agricultural Restructuring and Sustainability: A Geographical Perspective, edited by Tim Rickard, Brian Ilbery, and Quentin Chiotti, pp. 101-115, Wallingford, UK: CAB Int.

____________.  1992. “Alternative Agriculture and Conventional Paradigms in United States Agriculture.”  In Contemporary Rural Systems In Transition: Agriculture and Environment, vol. 1, edited by Ian Bowler, Chris Bryant and Duane Nellis, pp. 254-264, Wallingford, UK: CAB International.

____________.  1987. “Culture Change and the Houma Indians: A Historical and Ecological Examination.”  In A Cultural Geography of North American Indians, edited by Thomas E. Ross and Tyrel G. Moore, pp. 227‑241, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.  2nd Edition: pp. 211-226 in T.E. Ross, T.G. Moore, and L.R. King, eds. American Indian: A Cultural Geography, Southern Pines NC: Karo Hollow Press, 1995.