I expect the product of the study to be a book-length manuscript. Beacon Press has expressed interest in publishing this.
Religions also provide a picture of the greater whole in which all living beings are related.
Religious beliefs, narratives, and institutions emerge from and specify organized and stabilized understandings of relatedness. Defining religion in this way means that relationships between people in faith communities, as well as attitudes and practices in relation to those outside the group require scrutiny. Thus, understandings of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation are not accidental or incidental to religious perspectives but, as a concrete way religious perspectives are articulated , are central to religious values. Spiritual hunger arises from relationships that lack equality and mutuality .and from unjust institutions and social arrangements as surely as it comes from inadequate theology or belief. To recognize that religious communities are centrally concerned with the formulation, exploration, and practical application of values is also to recover one of religion's public functions, that of critically examining secular value, and of providing alternatives.