Open Educational Resources Guide: Philosophy & Religion OER

Philosophy and Religion OER

Philosophy courseware - Merlot
Religious studies courseware - Merlot
Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature - Open Yale Courses
This course "pairs central texts from Western philosophical tradition (including works by Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, Hobbes, Kant, Mill, Rawls, and Nozick) with recent findings in cognitive science and related fields. The course is structured around three intertwined sets of topics: Happiness and Flourishing; Morality and Justice; and Political Legitimacy and Social Structures."
Philosophy - Death - Open Yale Courses
"This course will examine a number of issues that arise once we begin to reflect on our mortality. The possibility that death may not actually be the end is considered. Are we, in some sense, immortal? Would immortality be desirable? Also a clearer notion of what it is to die is examined."

Introduction to Philosophy: Ethics by George Matthews (Book Editor); and Christina Hendricks (Series Editor)
"We often make judgments about good and bad, right and wrong. Philosophical ethics is the critical examination of these and other concepts central to how we evaluate our own and each others' behavior and choices. This text examines some of the main threads of discussion on these topics that have developed over the last couple of millennia, mostly within the Western cultural tradition." CC BY
Zombie Apocalypse: Holy Land, Haiti, Hollywood by Terry Rey
This text "explores the intellectual and cultural histories of two highly influential and essentially religious ideas, that of the zombie and that of the apocalypse." CC BY
The Tragedy of the Self: Lectures on Global Hermeneutics by Andrea Sangiacomo
"Why do human beings interpret their overall experience in terms of selfhood? How was the notion and sense of self shaped at different times and in different cultures? What sort of problems or paradoxes did these constructions face? These lectures address these and related questions by sketching a roadmap of possible theoretical avenues..." CC BY-NC-SA