Bielo analyzes the discourse structures of three Christian communities in rural Virginia, seeking "an understanding of how these Bible-study groups explain what it means to be moral."

These chapters, in which the Ten Commandments and the Covenant Code are delivered to the people of Israel, represent the foundation text of Judeo-Christian morality

Fort considers the relationship of religion to business ethics by drawing on related debates around whether religious belief is an appropriate ground for political morality. He provides a review of arguments for and against the inclusion of religious morals in politics, and concludes that both politics and business should avoid excluding religion from public morality.

Murdoch explores moral philosophy’s difficulty in accommodating human behavior and psychology. She stresses the hollowness of a system that insists on utilitarian reason and ignores the mysteriousness of morality and love, and suggests that moral philosophy, like religion, needs a "single perfect transcendent non-representable and necessarily real object of attention. "

In this classic text, Socrates debates the nature of piety a man who has put his own father on trial for murder.

Stark takes issue with Durkheim’s influential claim that it is the rites and rituals of religion, rather than particular gods, that play important roles in social morality. Analyzing data from around the world, he concludes that participation in ritual has little bearing on morality in comparison with belief in a particular kind of god.