Research Skills for MDiv Students (TPHL584), 1:8 Church & Society, Christian Practices

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Session 8: Church & Society, and Christian Practices

Church and Society

Reference sources

• Dictionary of Ethics, Theology and Society, 1996 [Ref. BJ63 .D45]
• Mainline Christians and U.S. Public Policy, 2007 [Ref. BR515 .U88]
• Encyclopedia of Religion and Society, 1998 [Ref.BL60 .E53; and online]
• Encyclopedia of Religion, Communication and Media, 2006 (Ref. P94 .E48)
• New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion, 2010 (Ref. BL60 .B53)

Statistical sources

• ARDA
• Adherents.com
• American Religious Identification Survey
• Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches [BR13.Y4, Reference Counter]
• 2010 U.S. Religious Census  [BL2525 .A15] [sample page]
• Other sources

Helpful websites

• Hartford Institute for Religion Research
• Faith, Ethics and Public Life
• Religion and Ethics Newsweekly

A helpful publisher: Alban Books

Christian Practices

Preaching

• Reference source: New Interpreter's Handbook of Preaching, 2008 (Ref. BV4211.3 .N49)
• Bible commentary series helpful in preaching
  • Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching (Westminster Press)
  • Storyteller's Companion to the Bible (Abingdon Press)
  • Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (Intervarsity Press) (for patristic insights)
  • Anchor Bible Commentary (Yale University Press) (for help with Hebrew and Greek)
• Commentaries for lectionary preaching
  • Feasting on the Word (Westminster) (BV4235 .L43 F43 2008)
  • Imaging the Word: An Arts and Lectionary Resource (United Church Press) (263.9 I31i)