Religion Research Tools: Home

Facts, Definitions, Background Information:

Our Facts/Definitions page searches hundreds of reliable dictionaries and encyclopedias.

  Also consider:

• Catholic Encyclopedia
• Critical Terms for Religious Studies 
• Free Religious Studies Reference Tools (Yale University)



News:

On our News Resources page you can search  individual newspapers (New York Times, Chicago Tribune, etc.) or you can search across many newspapers at one time using the Newspaper Source database. These papers may contain reviews and related articles.

Catholic News Archive (CNA) and the Catholic Newspapers Online link to more than two hundred newspapers, and provides easy access to current issues of many diocesan, national, and student newspapers. 

 Expert Opinions and Research (Peer Reviewed Journals):

• Academic Search Complete.  Multidisciplinary database of full-text articles from scholarly journals, magazines, government documents and other sources. Good starting place for basic coverage.
• Central Index. Broad coverage of interdisciplinary journals and other materials. 
• ATLA Religion DatabaseNOTE: replaced by the Central Index database.
• JSTOR. Articles from scholarly journals in the arts and sciences.
• MLA  NOTE: replaced by the Central Index database.
• News Sources: world and historical newspapers; New York Times since 1851.
• Philosopher's Index NOTE: replaced by the Central Index database.
• Project Muse. Articles from scholarly journals in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
• Scopus. Discover citations with some full-text articles in science, medicine, technology, and the social sciences. Includes tracking by citation, and identifying high impact articles.
• Multiple Database Search Tool: Go here if you know the exact title of an article, i.e., "contingent cubism".  This full-text finder tool will provide direction to the source of the article. 
• Zotero. Cite your sources using Zotero.

Subject Summaries (Books and our DVD collection):

Expert opinions can be found in books: see our local book catalog for searching. You may want to expand your search to the I-Share state-wide catalog (using the drop-down option below the search box) or our electronic book page.

This catalog includes many formats, including movies, manuscripts, and e-Books.

Streaming Films and Videos:

• Academic Video Online. More than 48,000 video titles on essential subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, history, music, film, and more.
• Films on Demand. Streaming video database that offers over 20,000 titles, and covers a variety of academic subjects, from producers such as BBC, PBS, Meridian, National Geographic, and more. Links can be shared through email, integrated into Canvas, or viewed in the classroom.

Here we list some additional web-based resources of interest:

ISLAM

• Islam and Islamic Studies Resources -- At the core of this website are short introductory essays on various aspects of Islam containing numerous annotated links. The site is administered through the UGA Virtual Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the Islamic World (VCISIW)
• The Arab American National Museum of Dearborn, Michigan is "the first and only museum in the United States devoted to Arab American history and culture.
• Islamic Manuscripts collection - digitized materials hosted at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and features more than 1,000 manuscripts (mostly in Arabic). 
• ArchNet, an online community for architects and scholars with a special focus on the Islamic world, based at MIT, features a virtual library of digitized books, journals, reference tools, as well as thousands of images of architecture in the Islamic world.
• Poetry and Prayer: Islamic Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum -- these sacred, devotional, and non-religious manuscripts bear witness to remarkable achievements in literature and the arts of the book, such as calligraphy, illumination, and illustration.

BUDDHISM

• Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center Digital Library The Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center Digital Library offers a research library of scanned Tibetan literature in Tibetan language, especially Buddhist works.
• Fo jing san lun (Three Treatises of the Buddhist Canon) Fo jing san lun (Three Treatises of the Buddhist Canon) lets you search of the text of three Chinese Buddhist works, the Zhong lun, Shi er men lun and Bai lun.

SOUTH ASIA incorporates: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka

HINDUISM

• Sanskrit materials and free materials from India (Yale University)

ANCIENT NEAR EAST

• collection of resources on ancient civilizations, including papyri and Egyptian cuneiform.

JUDAISM

• Jewish Virtual Library -- the most comprehensive online resource on Jewish history, politics and culture. Provides  a one-stop shop for users from around the world seeking answers to questions on subjects ranging from anti-Semtism to Zionism.

NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANITY

• The New Testament Gateway  A directory of web resources on the New Testament compiled by Mark Goodacre, professor at the Department of Religion, Duke University.
• The Vatican 
• Critical Terms for Religious Studies 
• Book of Bible Quotations 
• Encyclopedia of Religion and the Law in America 
• The Holy Bible, King James Version, Cambridge University Press  
• additional Concordances (some are searchable)

MYTHOLOGY

• Internet Sacred Text Archive   Freely available archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics. Texts are presented in English translation and, where possible, in the original language.
• Bloomsbury Dictionary of Myth  

OTHER

• The Association of Religion Data Archives 
  American and international collections for educators, journalists, religious congregations, and researchers. Data included are submitted by the foremost religion scholars and research centers in the world.
• Religious Studies Web Resources (Library of Congress and University of Calgary Library)
• Spiritual Biographies -- a list of spiritual biographies. Including spiritual personalities from Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Islam and other traditions.
• Theology web resources (Yale University) -- various projects and full text resources
• Free Web Resources on Religion (Yale University)
• Geographical Resources about Religion (Yale University)