Doing Justice and Christian Social Ethics Today

Starting out

Search tip: Picking a topic video tutorial

Background Material

• Oxford Bibliographies
  • peer-reviewed, annotated bibliographies that point to important resources by narrow topic, e.g,
    • Biblical Studies - Ethics
    • Philosophy
• Very Short Introductions
  • Scholarly introductions to topics
    • e.g, Christian Ethics
• Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice

Books

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Use Omni to find print and ebooks (this just searches ebooks titles. See below to search the full text of ebooks). Some helpful or possible search terms include:

• christian ethics, abortion, divorce, gender, etc.

Articles

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Note that while you certainly can find articles through Omni or Google Scholar, it can often be difficult to narrow down the results in a helpful way. Consider using one of our subject databases related to your topic. E.g., for Ecojustice, you may find articles in one of our Geography and Environmental Studies databases. The following databases contain material on ethics in general.

• ATLA Religion Database
• Philosopher's Index

Streaming Videos

• Films on Demand
  • e.g., Ethics: What is Right?

Evaluating the quality of sources

Search tip: How can I tell if my source is scholarly? (video tuturial)

• Should I use Wikipedia?