LibGuides: Catholic Studies: Open Educational Resources

What are Open Educational Resources?

Open educational resources (OERs) are teaching resources available in a variety of formats that have an open copyright license. This allows anyone to use, adapt and share them as needed.

Open educational resources and open pedagogy have many benefits for both faculty and students.

Allowing faculty to adapt teaching materials to match the content of their courses.
Providing students the opportunity to create, collaborate, and share their learning.
Lowering the cost of education making it more accessible and affordable for all.

See our UML Open Educational Resources Guide to find out how UM Libraries can support you in your use of these materials.

The next section lists some relevant Catholic Studies resources from the OER by Discipline Guide edited by U of M Librarians.

Catholic Studies OERs

The Future of Catholic Theological Ethics
This edited volume undertakes a search for new ways of making Catholic theological ethics relevant.
The Land, the Bible, and History
This edited volume presents a Catholic view of the Promised Land—as concept, history, and contested terrain—in Catholic teaching and doctrine.
Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ways of Proceeding within the Society of Jesus
This volume presents twelve essays from the First International Symposium on Jesuit Studies, on the theme of the distinctiveness of Jesuits and their ministries.
The Years of Jesuit Suppression, 1773-1814: Survival, Setbacks, and Transformation
This book covers the forty-one years between the Society of Jesus’s papal suppression in 1773 and its eventual restoration in 1814. Please note that although this book is free to read and redistribute, it is not licensed for editing or remixing.
Cultural Worlds of the Jesuits in Colonial Latin America
This volume of 12 essays includes papers from scholars of history, linguistics, religion, art, architecture, music, medicine and science. Please note that although this book is free to read and redistribute, it is not licensed for editing or remixing.
Jesuits in Spanish America before the Suppression : Organization and Demographic and Quantitative Perspectives
This book covers the period from the role members of the Society of Jesus played in urban life in Spanish American and as administrators of frontier missions, from the late sixteenth century until their expulsion in 1767. Please note that although this book is free to read and redistribute, it is not licensed for editing or remixing.
Sacred Views of Saint Francis (PDF)
This is the first significant scholarly work on the Sacro Monte di Orta in English. It includes a catalogue of artists, over one hundred photographs, maps, short essays on each chapel, and longer essays that examine some of the most significant chapels in greater detail.
Power and Religion in Baroque Rome
This study analyzes the ways in which a variety of cultural manifestations were the necessary preconditions for (religious) policy and power in the Rome of Urban VIII (1623-1644).