Course Number: RE407 Subject: Religion and Culture Scholarly sourcesIn general, when looking for scholarly sources, you will be consulting and citing three formats:journal articleSteen, Sheldon. “The Blair Martyr Project: The Passion of Perpetua and Found Footage Horror.” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 31, no. 3 (Fall 2019): 183–95. doi:10.3138/jrpc.2017-0064.bookDaniels, Timothy P. Living Sharia Law and Practice in Malaysia. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017.book chapterBernice, Carol. "How Queer is Celibacy?: a Queer Nun's Story." in Queer Christianities: Lived Religion in Transgressive Forms, edited by Kathleen T. Talvacchia, Mark Larrimore, and Michael F. Pettinger, 48-52. New York: New York University, 2015. Tutorial: Finding an article when you only know the titleTutorial: How can I tell if my source is scholarly?Tutorial: How do find scholarly booksTutorial: Doing a literature reviewOther sourcesreference sourceMansager, E. (2022). Spirituality. In: Glăveanu, V.P. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.magazine articleAddario, Lynsey, and Leila Fadel. Being Muslim in America. National Geographic Magazine. Vol. 233. Washington: National Geographic Partners, 2018.newspaper articleHogben, Alia. "The Mixing of Religion and Politics can Become Problematic." Kingston Whig - Standard, A7. Sep 23, 2023.letter to the editorLetter to the editor. "Religion Shouldn't be Forced on Students." Nanaimo News Bulletin, Dec 12, 2019.editorialMilloy, John. "Religion can Help Bring Us Together." Waterloo Region Record, A9. May 03, 2023.primary sourceAbdel Haleem, M. A., trans. The Qurʼan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.videoHarmoni: Healing Together. London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2021.thesisSengupta, A. (2023). An exploration of spirituality and empowerment in fortune 500 companies: A qualitative study of women leaders in the united states (see page 20)Library databases; search tipsRegardless of what you are searching for, or which tools you use, keep in mind the following tips (although be aware that not all databases support each of these options)Tutorial: Developing a research questionConsider word variations and synonymsthink about how others might refer to your idease.g, death rituals --> death OR dying OR funeral OR mortuaryTutorial: Using search words effectivelySearch TacticsWhat is the tactic?What does the tactic do?ExamplesBoolean ANDUse AND to ensure that all terms appear in every search result.heterodox AND gnosticBoolean ORUse OR to ensure that at least one term appears in every search result.Tutorial: Better searching using AND, OR, NOTindigenous OR aboriginalPhrase searchingUse “quotation marks” to find more than one term in a row.“islamic law”TruncationUse an asterisk* at the end of a term to include multiple endings. (sometimes $)Tutorial: Better searching using truncationreligio*religion, religions, religious, religiosity, religousnessWildcardUse a question mark ? within a term to search for variations of a single character.decoloni?edecolonize, decoloniseProximityUse NEAR/n to search for terms within n words of each other(sometimes ADJ/n)only useful in full text databases"music therapy" NEAR/5 child* OR adolescent*Employ search limiters (available limiters depend on the database)peer reviewed, article type, dateIdentify key publications and authorsnote citations, and cited references, repeated author namesDocument and track everything you do in the steps above__________________________________________________________________BooksTutorial: Finding books in OmniTutorial: Requesting books from other libraries in Omnistart with Omnilimit to "Books and eBooks", e.g, "islamic law" sharia malaysiause call number (e.g. to find location of Laurier's print items)sign in to request from other Omni librariesuse Scan on Demand for chapters or articlesnote about ebooksWhile Omni contains a catalogue record (author, title, etc.) of our eBooks, an Omni search does not search the full text of each book. Instead, you need to visit and search the various sites where our eBooks are stored. Some examples include:eBook Academic CollectionProquest Ebook Centralsee alsoInternet Archive: BooksGoogle BooksArticlesTutorial: Finding scholarly articles on a topicstart with Omnilimit to "Articles" and "Peer-reviewed journals"while you will likely find some relevant material on your topic, article content in Omni is not chosen or curated based on subject, but dumped in, i.e., it may not have everything on a particular topic, or your result list might be too large to parse.Researchers rely on curated collections of content according to discipline. Some of the helpful databases for the topics in this course include:Atla Religion DatabaseCommunication & Mass Media CompleteFilm & Television Literature IndexHistorical DatabasesiPortal: indigenous studies portal research toolSociology CollectionThe library has over 400 different databases that you could consider.Ask me, I might have come across some relevant resources.e.g, Queer(y)ing Labels: Dialogues of IdentityMore research materialsResearch -> More research materialsGrey literatureGrey literature is information produced outside traditional scholarly publications. It includes reports, policy briefs and reports, major research papers, white papers, working papers, government documents, speeches, etc. There is no single database that covers grey literature well, so Google is helpful in cases like this. Consider the following tips when searching Google, often using these in combination:limit to domainsite:ca, site:edulimit to document typefiletype:pdf, filetype:pptxthink how a document might phrase something, enclose that in quotesheterodox "sufi islam" filetype:pdf site:edu