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Religious Studies Subject Guide
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Indexes
General
Wilson Web OmniFile
A multidisciplinary database providing abstracts and some full-text. Use SearchPlus to limit to a specific Subject Area or to filter results for peer-reviewed journals only.
Academic Search Complete
A multidisciplinary database of peer-reviewed academic journals, offering indexing, abstracting and some full-text. Also includes image collections of people, places, historical photos, and more.
Britannica Online
Full-text of the Encyclopedia Britannica including photos, drawings, flags, biographies, and geographical articles. Also includes the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
Subject
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials is the full text version of the ATLA Religion Database. Coverage in this collection dates back to 1949.
Essay and General Literature Index cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the U.S., Great Britain, and Canada.
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E-Texts
Journals
Project Muse is an index of periodicals published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Most are available in full-text.
SpringerLink Journals provides electronic access to the complete contents of a vast and growing collection of SpringerLink journals in various subjects, including Religious Studies (formerly Kluwer Journals).
Reference Works
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Books
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About the Catalog
Search for books, journal titles, and other resources in our online catalog.
Some subject headings used for this discipline are listed below. For additional headings, refer to the Library of Congress Subject Headings volumes located behind the Reference Desk.
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Bible. N.T.--Criticism, interpretation, etc. Faith Presbyterian Church
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Theology, Doctrinal--History
Internet Sites
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American Religion Data Archive (ARDA) is a project funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. and acts to preserve quantitative data on American religion, to improve access to this data, to increase the use of the data, and to allow comparisons across data files. The ARDA collection includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations).
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The Bible Gateway was developed by Nick Hengeveld to allow one to search the texts of versions of the Christian bible.
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Biblical Studies on the Web Your Gateway to exegesis on the Web.
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BuddhaNet Worldwide Buddhist Information and Education
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Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library The Internet Guide to Buddhism and Buddhist Studies.
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Catholic Encyclopedia More than 11,000 articles on Catholic topics.
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Church of Virus Virus is a collection of mutually-supporting ideas (a meme-complex) encompassing philosophy, science, technology, politics, and religion.
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DharmaNet International Gateways to Buddhism.
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Facets of Religion A World Wide Web Virtual Library that explores religions and belief systems (ancient and contemporary), religious history, mythology, ethics and humanism.
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Jesus: Real to Reel ResourcesBibliography and Web resources for Religious Studies/theology and film
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Journal of Buddhist Ethics is an electronic peer-reviewed journal dedicated to Buddhist ethics
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Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance provides links to a wide variety of religions.
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Pointing the Way: Christian Literature on the Internet includes various Bibles and books (by title), articles, sermons, bible studies/devotionals, news sources, newsletters/periodicals, creeds/confessions, and miscellaneous texts.
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Yahoo Directory of Faiths and Practices More links to various religious beliefs and practices including Atheism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Native American, Paganism, Scientology, and Unitarian-Universalism.
About the Department
Citing Sources
- MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th edition (LB2369 .G53 2003)
or click on Style Manuals to locate guidelines for using correct MLA citation format.
