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REL 2425: Religion and Contemporary Moral Issues
This page features resources for the course REL-2425: Religion and Contemporary Moral Issues. You can find more by searching the Library catalogue, or look up databases and journals by title.
Suggested keywords:
- Religious ethics
- Religion and justice
- Religion and ethics
- Gender identity
- Bioethics
- Right to die
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
- Environmental ethics
- Sustainability
- Social justice
TIP: Add "religious aspects" or "moral and ethical aspects" to your topic keyword to narrow your search, e.g. Gender identity religious aspects.
Books
Scholarly Journals
- Journal of Religious EthicsThe Journal of Religious Ethics emphasizes comparative religious ethics, foundational conceptual and methodological issues in religious ethics, and historical studies of influential figures and texts.
- Journal of Religion and HealthExplores the most contemporary modes of religious thought with particular emphasis on their relevance to current medical and psychological research.
- Theology & SexualityThemes addressed include theological constructions of sex and gender, marriage, models of the family, deconstructive and reconstructive approaches to traditional Christian (and other traditions) teaching on sexuality, sexuality and violence and oppression, and the ethics of personal relationships.
- Culture and Religion: An Interdisciplinary JournalCulture and Religion is an interdisciplinary journal seeking an engagement between scholars working across a range of disciplinary fields, including anthropology, cultural studies, critical theory and gender studies, and postcolonial studies.
Databases
AtlaSerials [EBSCOhost]
AtlaSerials combines an index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals. It includes citations from journals, essay, multi-author works, book review and multimedia. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association.