Religion

Library Research in Religion

Library Catalogs
Databases for Religion Research
Related Databases for Religion Research
Encyclopedias & Reference

Library Catalogs

Reed Library Catalog

Summit (used to be Orbis)

WorldCat

Databases for Religion Research

ATLA Religion 1949 - present
A comprehensive database that supports religious and theological scholarship. It includes citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, book reviews and Doctor of Ministry projects.

Bibliography of Asian Studies 1971 - present
Indexes western-language monographs, articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia.

Index Islamicus 1906 - present
Interdisciplinary index to the literature of the Islamic world.

Evaluating Periodical Research in Religion
Electronic & Print Periodicals

Academic Search Premier 1980s - present (varies)
Interdisciplinary, fulltext database of scholarly periodicals.

America: History and Life 1964 - present
An index, with abstracts, to research in North American history and culture.

Art Abstracts (1984 - present) & Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984)
Leading publications in the world of the arts.

Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences Citation Indexes 1954 - present
As part of the "Web of Science" (along the Science Citation Index). The two indexes may be searched singly or together. Enables searching of references cited in books and journal articles, as well as subject, author, and title searching.

Essay and General Literature Index 1985 - present
Use this database to find essays and articles contained in collections (i.e. books) of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.

Expanded Academic ASAP 1980 - present
Use this database to find information on: Astronomy, Religion, Law, History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications and the General Sciences.

Historical Abstracts 1954 - present
An index, with abstracts, to research in world history (excluding North America) from 1450 through the 20th Century.

Humanities Abstracts February 1984 - present
An index of articles in the humanities.

Iter
Iter, meaning 'a journey' or 'a path' in Latin, is a non-profit research project with partners in Toronto, Canada (the headquarters), New York City, and Tempe, Arizona. The goal of Iter is to increase access to all published materials pertaining to the Renaissance (1300-1700) and, eventually, to the Middle Ages (400-1500), through the creation of online bibliographic databases.

JSTOR Periodicals
Electronic access and searching capability to the journals in several social science disciplines. Will be useful for some topics in Religion.

New Testament abstracts 1956 - present
No index. The abstracts are listed by categories: NT general, gospels-Acts, epistles-Revelations and NT world. The category "NT world" includes sections on Dead Sea scrolls, Jewish world, and rabbinics. New book notices are included, also divided into the same categories as the journal articles.
Ref. BS410 N35 Print only.

PCI - Periodicals Contents Index
PCI Web is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1993. Every article is indexed.

Philosopher's Index 1940 - present
Indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields published throughout the Western World since 1967. Coverage from 1940 for U.S. materials.

Project Muse
Electronic access and searching capability to the journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Sociological Abstracts 1963 - present
Includes material in sociology, anthropology, criminology, demography, education, law & penology, race relations, social psychology, urban studies, and more.

Encyclopedias & Reference

Bowker, The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions.
Ref. BL31 .O84 1997
Brief entries on concepts, deities, people, places; many entries have references for further reading. Topic index.

Crim, Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions.
Ref BL31 .A24 1981
Entries from a few sentences to a few pages on people, concepts, and topics. Most with brief bibliography for further reading.

Eliade, The Encyclopedia of Religion 16 vols.
Ref. BL31 .E46 1986
Edited by Mircea Eliade, with signed articles by scholars in their respective fields; features broad essays with substantial detail and bibliographies. Fifteen volumes, plus very detailed index volume. Also available online from some computers in the library.

Grove Dictionary of Art
Ref N31 .D5 1996
Full-text encyclopedia with over 41,000 entries covering "the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the 1990s." Access to 30,000 color images (online). The 30 vol. print edition is in reference.

Hastings, Encyclopedia of Religon and Ethics 12 vols. (1908 -27).
Ref. BL31 .E4
Includes articles on all religions; ethical systems and movements; related subjects in anthropology etc. Very detailed information in articles signed by scholars.