Research Guide for Religious Studies

FIND JOURNAL ARTICLES | ELECTRONIC JOURNALS | FIND BOOKS | REFERENCE SOURCES | INTERNET RESOURCES |

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These databases will help you locate information published in journals, magazines, newspapers and a variety of other sources. ATLA Religion Includes index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews. Full text is available for many of the journal articles. Coverage begins in 1946. Humanities Abstracts Indexes more than 400 periodicals in Religion, Philosophy, and other humanities disciplines. Coverage begins in 1984. Arts and Humanities Search Indexes 1300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Coverage begins in 1980. WorldCat Records of books and any other types of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century. WilsonSelect WilsonSelect Full Text contains indexed and abstracted articles from over 1300 periodicals, all with full text online. The database is comprised of records from the following H.W. Wilson databases: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts. The dates of coverage begin January 1994 and continue to the present (please note that each periodical can begin on a different month and year).

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Albion College Library - Electronic Journals Home Page Provides links to more than 1,100 electronic journals available through the Albion College Library. Albion College Library - Full Text Finder This resource provides links to full text articles found in the Albion College Library's many online databases and electronic journal collections. Covers more than 10,000 journals and magazines. Electronic Collections Online Electronic Collections Online provides indexing and full-text from academic journals in many disciplines. Articles can be viewed online or printed. JSTOR JSTOR is a collection of scholarly journals, all with full text articles available online. This collection can be searched by subject, author, and title.

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Albion College Library Online Catalog The Online Catalog will help you find books, videos, government documents, journals, newspapers, and other materials owned by the Albion College Library. MeLCat Online Catalog MeLCat will help you find books owned by dozens of libraries in Michigan (including Albion College, Michigan State University, Central Michigan University, Albion Public Library, East Lansing Public Library, Grand Rapids Community College, Southfield Public Library, and many others). Books may be borrowed by using the online request form. WorldCat Records of books and any other types of material cataloged by thousands of libraries worldwide. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.

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The Encyclopedia of Religion. REFERENCE COLLECTION - BL 31 .E46 1987 Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism. REFERENCE COLLECTION - BL 238 .E63 2001 Harper Collins Dictionary of Religion. REFERENCE COLLECTION - BL 31 .H37 1995 Encyclopedia of Religion and Society. REFERENCE COLLECTION - BL 60 .E53 1998 Encyclopedia of World Faiths. REFERENCE COLLECTION - BL 80.2 .E495 1988 Historical Atlas of the Religions of the World. REFERENCE COLLECTION - BL 80.2 .F28 Atlas of the World's Religions. REFERENCE COLLECTION - BL 85 .A89 1999

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Academic Info: Religion Adherents.com "a growing collection of over 41,000 adherent statistics and religious geography citations -- references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc." AdHoc Image and Text Database on the History of Christianity Bible Study Tools Online Bibles, concordances, commentaries, dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc. Christian Classics Ethereal Library Early Christian Writings "collection of documents from the first two centuries with translations and commentary. Includes the New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, and Church Fathers." EIKON Image Database for Biblical Studies Finding God in Cyberspace: A Guide to Religious Studies on the Internet Jewish-Christian Relations Latin Vulgate Bible Contains the full text of the Latin Vulgate Bible, with English translation. ReligionFacts.com "As its name suggests, the purpose of ReligionFacts.com is to provide "just the facts" on the world's religions and topics of religious interest. Every effort has been taken to present material from an impartial, academic perspective. This site has no mission other than to provide useful and interesting information on religion in an easy-to-use format. The general goal is to combine the benefits of a print encyclopedia of religion with the unique capabilities of the Web to create a convenient, one-stop online resource for information on religion." Religions of the World From the BBC. Provides an overview of beliefs, traditions, contemporary issues, and a selection of Internet links. Review of Biblical Literature "The Review of Biblical Literature (RBL), founded by the Society of Biblical Literature, presents reviews of books in biblical studies and related fields" Virtual Religion Index