RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Reference Books | Databases | Periodicals | Websites

REFERENCE BOOKS

-- General

• Encyclopedia of American religious history, 2001. R200 Q44
• Encyclopedia of Religion 2nd Ed., 2005. Gale Virtual Reference Library eBook
• Faith in America: changes, challenges, new directions. Praeger, 2006. R200.973 F35 2006
• The Oxford dictionary of world religions, 1997. R200.3 O84
• Religions of the ancient world: a guide. Harvard University Press, 2004. R200 R446 2004

-- Christianity/Catholicism

• World Christian encyclopedia: a comparative survey of churches & religions AD 30-AD 2000. R230.9 B3
• Encyclopedia of the Vatican & the Papacy, 1999. R262 E53
• Historical dictionary of the Reformation & Counter-Reformation, 2000. R270.6 H55
• New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. 2002. R282.03 C286

-- Bible

• The Complete Bible handbook, 1998. R200.6 B69
• Eerdmans dictionary of the Bible, 2000. R220.3 E44
• The New Oxford Annotated Bible; with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books, 3rd ed., 2001. R220.520 N43

-- Judaism

• The new encyclopedia of Judaism. New York University Press, 2002. R296 E63
• The Oxford dictionary of the Jewish Religion, 1997. R296 O94
• The Talmud = [Talmud Bavli]: the Steinsaltz edition, 1989. R296.1 S59

-- Islam

• Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim world. 2004. R297 E63 2004
• Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an, 2001. R297.1 E53
• What's right with Islam: a new vision for Muslims and the West, 2004. R297 A23 2004

DATABASES

• ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials: Combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals. Includes 488,000+ article citations from more than 1,500 journals (506 currently indexed), more than 215,000 essay citations from over 15,700 multi-author works, and more than 446,000 book review citations. Coverage begins in 1949 with indexing for some journal titles extending back into the 19th century.
• Religion & Philosophy Database: Custom selection of more than 250 magazines and academic journals covering religion and philosophy and the related areas of archaeology and anthropology. The content in this database is in Academic Onefile.
• Click here for additional Humanities databases (includes Religious Studies).

PERIODICALS

Find Journals on Religion, available in print at Plough Library and/or online through CBU databases.

WEBSITES

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-- GENERAL

• American Religion Data Archive: Includes quantitative data about churches, membership, congregations, and denominations.
• ATLA Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative: Repository of digital resources contributed by member libraries, including images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, and manuscripts.
• Gifford Lectures Online: Full texts of Gifford lectures on natural theology. A number of these works have become classics in the fields of theology or philosophy and their relationship to science.
• The Internet Sacred Text Archive: Electronic texts on religion, mythology, legends & folklore, and occult topics.
• The Pluralism Project: Harvard University site seeking to help Americans engage with realities of religious diversity through research, outreach, and dissemination of resources.
• Religion Explorer: Search engine that searches only in religion related sites.
• Religion Newswriters Foundation: Resources for journalists reporting about religion and those looking for up-to-date news on religion.

-- CHRISTIANITY

• New Testament Gateway
• Five Gospel Parallels: The texts of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Thomas in English, with cross-references to parallel passages. View texts side by side.
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library: Classic Christian books in electronic format.
• Resources for American Christianity: Offers documents from research projects funded by Lilly Foundation. Research topics include church leadership, congregations, ethics, and worship.
• World Wide Study Bible: Site's goal is to organize all Bible-related resources on the Web according to scripture reference.
• The Text this Week: Features a wide variety of resources for study and liturgy based on the 3-year Revised Common Lectionary cycle.

-- CATHOLICISM

• United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
• Worldwide Lasallian Links
• Papal Encyclicals Online: Contains Papal and other official documents of the Catholic Church. Includes a directory of Popes and information on all Church Councils
• English Translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Second Edition English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Includes corrections promulgated by Pope John Paul II on 8 September 1997.
• Catholic Encyclopedia, 1st ed. (1914): *The 2nd edition of the New Catholic Encyclopedia (2002) is available in Reference: R282.03 C286.
• Catholic Encyclopedia: List of Popes
• Association of Catholic Colleges & Universities
• Documents of the Vatican II Council

-- JUDAISM

• JewishEncyclopedia.com: Complete contents of 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia published 1901-06.
• Jewish Women's Archive: Multimedia archive on history of Jewish women in America.
• Jews in America: Devoted to the experience of American Jews from 1654 to the present day, site offers video minidocumentaries, short historical essays, and more
• Torah.net

-- ISLAM

• Introduction to Islam: Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of Islam.
• Islam 101: Educational site on Islam, its way of life, civilization and culture.

-- EASTERN RELIGIONS

• BuddhaNet: Buddhist information and education network provides access to many full-text materials, online study guides, and e-book and audio libraries.
• About.com: Hinduism
• An Introduction to Hinduism

-- RELIGION & SCIENCE

• Counterbalance Interactive Library: Explores relationship between religion and science. Presents contributions from many leading scholars in the fields of religion, philosophy, and science.
• Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion & Science: Online encyclopedia offers scholarly articles relevant to contemporary dialogue between religion and science, primarily from a Catholic theological perspective.