How 3 major faith-Judaism, Christianity & Islam apply principles?
Washington: January 7, 2010- IR Summary/NYT Hansons report is important today, Ms. Hansons report, Faithless Heathens: Scriptural Economics of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, carried a title far more provocative than its contents. In the fall of 2001, as an anguished nation came to grips with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a slender, soft-spoken economics major named Elizabeth Hanson set out to write her senior thesis at Colby College in Maine. Her question was a timely one: How do the worlds three major faith traditions apply economic principles? Ms. Hansons report, Faithless Heathens: Scriptural Economics of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, carried a title far more provocative than its contents, said the professor who advised her. But it may have given a hint of her career to come, as an officer for the Central Intelligence Agency specializing in hunting down Islamic extremists.That career was cut short last week: Ms. Hanson was one of seven Americans killed in a suicide bombing at
