Program Overview

THEO 1402: God, Self, and Society

Course Overview

This course explores the concepts of God, self, and society, providing students with a comprehensive understanding of the relationships between these entities.

Resources for Context and Background

• Oxford Reference Online: A collection of reference titles to search for dictionary definitions, facts, figures, people, places, dates, and quotations.
• Encyclopedia of Religion: Scholarly articles on key concepts in religion from a comparative religion perspective.
• Encyclopaedia of Islam: A scholarly and multilingual focus on people, places, and ideas in Islam.
• New Catholic Encyclopedia: A scholarly resource for context on people, places, and ideas related to Catholicism.

Books

• BC Library Catalog: Cross-disciplinary searching of online and locally-available resources, including print books, e-books, journal articles, and digital collections.
• WorldCat Discovery: Search WorldCat to find materials in thousands of libraries worldwide.
• Interlibrary Loan: Request items from other libraries.

Articles

• ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials PLUS: Essays, book reviews, and journal articles in all disciplines related to theological and religious studies.
• Old Testament Abstracts: Indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies.
• New Testament Abstracts: Citations and abstracts of journal articles, book reviews, books, and software related to New Testament studies.
• JSTOR: A collection of scholarly books and journals across disciplines.
• Project MUSE: Full-text of scholarly journals and books in the humanities and social sciences.

Related Guides

• Bible Study Quick Start
• Biblical Studies
• Theology

Citing Sources

• Chicago Manual of Style Online: A guide to style, usage, and grammar in an accessible online format.
• Citing Church Documents: Guidelines for citing documents produced by the Church, including titles, place names, and authors.

Librarian

• Chris Strauber: Librarian for Classical Studies, Government Documents, Islamic Civilization & Societies, Philosophy, Romance Languages & Literatures, and Theology.