Library Topic Guides: World Religions: World Religions

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Introduction

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This research guide will help you identify and locate resources in World Religions. It provides links to available books, eBooks, databases (full text journal articles, news, etc.), and useful websites.

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Books

Databases

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials This link opens in a new window
Combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with Atla’s full text collection of 360+ major religion and theology journals.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Provides cross-searchable access to over three million entries from 273 titles and 57 publishers. Features full-text content from hundreds of reference books covering every major subject.
Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Access to JSTOR Arts & Sciences Collections XV and VII.
ProQuest Religion Database This link opens in a new window
This database provides a wide range of primarily full-text, international periodicals for diverse religious and spiritual studies, covering formal theological studies of major religions, as well as the most recent trends and scholarly thought. Included are titles from religious publishing bodies and nondenominational organizations.
Religion & Philosophy Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. With more more than 300 full text journals, the Religion & Philosophy Collection is an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies.

Websites

Association of Religion Data Archives
Religion Research Hub, the latest findings, best methods and newest ideas in the scientific study of religion
Religion and Public Life
Reports from the PEW forum on religion and public life.
ReligionFacts
Articles on a wide variety of world religions, both ancient and modern, as well as "ways of life", philosophies and some anti-religion systems, such as ancient epicureanism and modern atheism
TedTalks
On the topic of religion
Virtual Religin Index
Maintained by the Department of Religion, Rutgers University
Voice of the Shuttle: Religious Studies
Mission is to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that once respects the established humanities disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media