Religious Studies
Your Subject Librarian is Lucia Al-Talal
If you need any support finding Religious Studies resources, interpreting, and using them in your work please contact me!
email: Laltalal@wmsf.ac.uk
We have access to a fantastic range of academic content from leading publishers. All available online!
Relevant databases
Religion and Philosophy
Scroll down the alphabetical list for the title. This magazine is written by experienced teachers, lecturers and examiners and contains a wealth of articles and advice for the A-level student to improve their progress and performance. Most useful for the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics modules.
Wider Web
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy organizes scholars from around the world in philosophy and related disciplines to create and maintain an up-to-date reference work.
PhilArchive is the largest open-access e-print archive in philosophy. Formerly known as the PhilPapers Archive, it is built on and integrated with the PhilPapers database. Access to items on PhilArchive is free without a user account. PhilArchive is a non-profit project supported by the PhilPapers Foundation.
Philosophy of Religion podcast lectures from the University of Oxford
This series of eight lectures delivered by Dr T. J. Mawson at the University of Oxford in Hilary Term 2011, introduces the main philosophical arguments pertaining to the Western monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Each lecture has an associated hand-out (two for the first lecture).
This site is the largest open-source archive of primary texts on religion, folklore and the world's magical traditions. You will find examples of major translations of all of the holy books of the monotheistic faiths.
Philosophy of Religion Reading Lists
This is a list of resources available from the Library.
This is a PowerPoint prepared to support seminars about St Thomas Aquinas's version of Natural Law theory and various criticisms.
Ontological Arguments for the Existence of God
This is a PowerPoint prepared to support seminars about the various forms and criticisms of the Ontological Argument.
Reference and Citation Generator
This site allows you to automatically search for a wide variety of media details (including online images) and create bibliographies and in-text citations.