Indexes general-interest and scholarly articles, book reviews, book chapters, and theses relating to religious concepts. Emphasis is on Christianity.
Religious Studies
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Coverage: 1971-present.
Index of Western-language publications on topics relating to Asia.
Second edition (2007) of a scholarly encyclopedia covering Jewish history and culture.
Encyclopedia covering Christianity through its 2000-year history within a global context. Originally published 1999-2005.
From the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, this database indexes a selection of journal articles, book chapters, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, books, audiovisuals, and news articles relating to bioethics and professional ethics.
Collection of works on Islam and the Islamic world. Includes scholarly encyclopedia articles, Qur'anic materials, and primary sources.
Collection of dictionaries and other reference works on religion and philosophy from Oxford University Press.
Electronic version of the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 C.E. to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. Fundamental Latin texts for the study of late antiquity and early modern history.
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Engine which searches the full text of several versions (in several languages) of the Judeo-Christian Bible.
Quantitative data on American religion; includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups.
Collection of texts printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473 to 1700. Includes literary texts, sermons, legal documents, scientific treatises, and many other types of works.
Digital collection of 180,000 English language books, pamphlets, essays, and broadsides published from 1701 to 1800. Titles cover history, fine arts, medicine, science, literature, law, philosophy, and religion.
An abridged translation of a Persian encyclopedia that is one of the most comprehensive sources on Islam and the Muslim world. Particularly strong in coverage of Shiʿi Islam. Still a work-in-progress; not many volumes of the translation have been completed yet.
Online encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion, including an image gallery and genealogy tables.
Online version of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Society (AltaMira Press, c1998). Covers world religions, religious perspectives on political and social issues, and religious leaders and scholars around the world.
Conducts research on churches and congregations in America today. Includes an extensive, ongoing study of megachurches.
Coverage: 1907-1984
Index of major journals in the humanities and social sciences
Digital collection of Islamic manuscripts, maps, and published texts from Harvard’s library and museum collections covering the 13th to 20th centuries and representing many regions, languages, and subjects.
Encyclopedia covering the history of Jewish women. Includes thematic essays (e.g., abortion, Hadassah) as well as biographical entries.
Digital archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, containing some 250,000 articles covering Jewish news around the world from 1923-present.Coverage of antisemitism, the Holocaust, the story of Soviet Jews, Israel, and other topics of interest to students of modern Jewish life.
Directory of internet resources of possible interest to New Testament scholars.
Coverage: 1226-present
Provides links to the full text of papal encyclicals and other papal documents.
Research, opinion polls (national and global), and news coverage on politics, religion, immigration, demography, and the media. Includes daily tracking of policy trends by state. Its Hispanic Center focuses on the U.S. Hispanic population and its growing impact on the nation.
Coverage: 1940-present.
Index of books and journals in philosophy and related fields. Includes records for book reviews.
For studying religious diversity in the United States. Includes a directory, statistics, and maps of religious communities around the country,
Maududi's translation comes with introductory material to aid in understanding the text.
Selective index of thousands of journal articles, articles in collections, and chapters in books from primary and secondary sources in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages, offering worldwide coverage of Jewish studies and the land of Israel. From the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem.
Core reference work covers Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy.
Collection of searchable Bibles consisting of 10 English versions, Greek and Hebrew versions, 4 ancient versions, and 42 versions in other languages, as well as lexicons, dictionaries, commentaries, and maps.
This online encyclopedia covers the history and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe from the beginnings of their settlement in the region to the present day. Includes primary documents, images, audio, video, and maps.



