Call for papers: Religious Traditions and Business Behavior

Here's an interesting call for papers:

The Center for Financial Policy at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business announces a Call for Papers and Proposals for the Henry Kaufman Conference on Religious Traditions and Business Behavior. 

This conference explores two central questions in the relationship between the world’s major religious traditions and the business behavior of adherents to those traditions: 

First, what do the world’s major organized religious traditions – Protestantism, Catholicism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism – proscribe about business and financial ethics and behavior?

Second, how and why have business and financial actors seriously compromised the leading religious traditions of their cultures?

By interrogating these two core questions, the conference will yield insights valuable to contemporary business and religious leaders about abiding questions such as:  Do the scriptures and doctrines of these religions appear to have had a marked effect on financial behavior?  Does religion appear to be a more potent or less potent influence than business ethics courses in fostering sound, ethical, and socially responsible financial behavior?  How can religion best be promulgated to make financial behavior more sound, ethical, and socially responsible?

The conference will be in Spring 2013, with two preliminary meetings of speakers before then.  Proposals are due Feb. 1, 2012.