Links library: Issues and current topics

Links collections

Academic centers

U.S.

Barna Research Group The Barna Group provides primary research, communications tools, printed resources, leadership development for young people, and church facilitation and enhancement in order to “partner with Christian ministries and individuals to be a catalyst in moral and spiritual transformation in the United States.”
Faith Communities Today (Hartford Seminary) Calls itself the largest survey of congregations ever conducted in the United States.
The Louisville Institute Lilly Endowment Program for the study of American religion based at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary.
Harvard Pluralism Project The Pluralism Project: World Religions in America is a research project aimed at engaging students in studying the new religious diversity in the United States.
Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture research and public outreach institute devoted to the promotion of the understanding of the relation between religion and other features of American culture. Based in the IU School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
Research on Youth and Religion The National Study of Youth and Religion offers a variety of reports and statistics on young people and religion
SocioWeb: The Sociological Resource Center SocioWeb is an independent guide to sociological resources available on the Internet

Global

Webster’s World of Cultural Policy An online resource center for the study of cultural policy from the perspective of cultural democracy
123World Religion The site provides links to a variety of religious groups
Americas Society – Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada The group provides information on the diverse cultures in the Americas

General

The Beard Center for Leadership in Ethics Duquesne University in Pittsburgh
W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.
Center for Ethics Emory University in Atlanta
Center for Ethics and the Professions Harvard University
Consortium Ethics Program University of Pittsburgh
Ethics Resource Center The Ethics Resource Center (ERC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization whose vision is a world where individuals and organizations act with integrity.
Dartmouth College Ethics Institute Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH
Institute for Global Ethics The international group works to promote ethical behavior in individuals, institutions, and nations through research, public discourse, and practical action.
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Santa Clara University in California
Wharton Ethics Program University of Pennsylvania

Business

Council for Ethics in Economics The Council for Ethics in Economics is an association based in Columbus, Ohio of leaders in business, higher education, religion and other professions working together to try to strengthen the ethical fabric of business and economic life.
Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research Wharton School in Philadelphia
International Business Ethics Institute The International Business Ethics Institute is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan, educational organization. The Institute was founded in 1994 in response to the growing need for transnationalism in the field of business ethics.

Science and Medicine

Center for Biomedical Ethics University of Virginia
Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science Case Western Reserve University
Center for Environmental Philosophy The Center for Environmental Philosophy was created by the board of directors of Environmental Philosophy, Inc., a nonprofit corporation of the State of New Mexico. It is the product of a number of activities begun with the creation of the journal Environmental Ethics.
The Hastings Center The Hastings Center is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit bioethics research institute founded in 1969 to explore fundamental and emerging questions in health care, biotechnology, and the environment.
The Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith and Ethics The Park Ridge Center in Park Ridge, Ill., explores the interaction of health, faith, and ethics through research, education and consultation. The center is an independent, nonprofit, nonsectarian organization affiliated with Advocate Health Care.
Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics Stanford University

Media

presscouncils.org A website entirely devoted to media ethics and accountability systems – with now a record 320 media codes, data on all world press councils, a list of 80 (non-governmental) media accountability systems (MAS) plus 175 links and 315 book titles on ethics and MAS.

On the Web

Center for Religion, the Professions and the Public Based at the University of Missouri-Columbia it provides a variety of links on religion and medicine.

Articles

Caring for Creation: links to religion and ecology sites Northern Arizona University
Links to religion and ecology sites The site is put together by Mark I. Wallace, associate professor in the Department of Religion and member of the Interpretation Theory Committee and the Environmental Studies Committee at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.

Articles

General

Religion and Public Schools Background from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

Syllabi

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic Library of Congress Exhibition
Speaking of Faith Public radio’s national conversation about belief, meaning, ethics, and ideas.

Bioethics Background from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
Science, Religion, and the Human Experience Program from the University of California, Santa Barbara
Center for the Study of Science and Religion (CSSR) Earth Institute, Columbia University