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Major Reference Sources
All of the sources listed below can be found in the Charles E. Shain
Library at ConnecticutCollege. For further information
please consult a Reference Librarian.
General Religious Studies
Encyclopedias
Contemporary American Religion
Wade Clark Roof, editor
REF BL 2525 C65 2000 (2 vol.)
Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience
Charles H. Lippy and Peter W. Williams, editors
REF BL 2525 E53 1987
The Encyclopedia of American Religions: Religious Creeds
J. Gordon Melton, editor
REF BL 2525 E524 1988
The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion
Robert Wuthnow, editor
REF BL 65 P7 E53 1998 (2 vol.)
The Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade, editor
REF BL 31 E46 1987 (16 vol.)
Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings, editor
REF BL 31 E4 1917- 1922 (13 vol.)
Encyclopedia of Religion and Society
William H. Swatos, editor
REF BL 60 E53 1998
Religions of the World
J. Gordon Melton and Martin Baumann, editors
REF BL 80.3 R45 2002 (4 vol.)
Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion
Serinity Young, editor
REF BL 458 E53 1999
Dictionaries – General
– Religious Studies
Encyclopedia of Religion
Vergilius Fern, editor
REF BL 31 E55
HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion
Jonathan Z. Smith, editor
REF BL 31 H37 1995
New Dictionary of Religions
John R. Hinnells, editor
REF BL 31 P48 1995
Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
John Bowker, editor
REF BL 31 O9 1997
Atlases
Atlas of Holy Places and Sacred Sites
Colin Wilson
ATLAS CASE BL 580 W55 1996
Atlas of the Bible
John Rogerson, editor
ATLAS CASE BS 630 R6 1985
Atlas of the Bible and Christianity
Tim Dowley, editor
ATLAS CASE G 2230 D68 1997
Atlas of the Early Christian World
Translated and edited by Mary Hedlund and H.H. Rowley
ATLAS CASE G 1046 E4 M42
Atlas of the World’s Religions
Ninian Smart, editor
ATLAS CASE BL 80.2 A84 1999
Historical Atlas of the Religions of the World
Isma’il Rag, al Faruqui,, editor
and David Sopher, map editor
REF BL 80.2 F28
The Macmillan Bible Atlas
Revised edition
Yohanan Aharoni and Michael Avi-Yonah
ATLAS CASE G 2230 A2 1977
New Historical Atlas of Religions in America
Edwin Scott Gaustad and Philip L. Barlow
ATLAS CASE G 1201 E4 G3 2001
Islam
Islam – Encyclopedias
Concise Encyclopedia of Islam
Cyril Glasse
REF BP 40 G42 1999
Encyclopaedia of Islam
H.A. R. Gibb
REF BP 40 E5 1954 (10 vol)
Encyclopedia of Islamic Doctrine
Muhammad Hisham Kabbani
REF BP 166 K33 1998 (7 vol.)
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
John L. Esposito
REF DS 35.53 O95 1995
Shorter Encyclopedia of Islam
H.A.R. Gibb
REF BP 40 S5 1965
Islam – Qu’ran
Concordance of the Qur’an
Hanna E. Kassis
REF BP 133 K37 1983
Dictionary of Qur’anic Terms and Concepts
Mustansir Mir
REF BP 133 M57 1987
Encyclopaedia of the Qu’ran
Jane Dammen McAuliffe
REF BP 133 E53 2001
Exhaustive concordance of the meaning of Qur’an: based upon
the translation of Abdullah Yusuf Ali
John Cason
REF BP 133 C37 2000
The Holy Qur’an: with English translation of the Arabic text
and commentary…
Ali S.V. Ahmed
REF BP 109 1995
Islam – Other
American Muslim 1994 Resource Directory of Islam in America
America Muslims Support Group
REF BP 67 U6 A48 1994
Complete book of Muslim and Parsi names
Maneka Gandhi
REF CS 2970 G3 1998
Cultural Atlas of Islam
Isma’il R. Al-Faruqi
REF DS 36.85 A39 1986
Dictionary of Islam, being a cyclopaedia of the doctrines, rites,
ceremonies,,,
Thomas Patrick Hughes
REF BP 40 H8 1935
Dictionary of Muslim names
Salahuddin Ahmed
REF CS 2970 A34 1999
Guide to Islam
David Ede
REF Z7835 M6 G84 1983
Historical Dictionary of Islam
Luudwig W. Adamec
REF BP 50 A33 2001
Islam beyond Terrorists and Terrorism
Iftekar Mahmood
REF BP 70 M34 2002
Muslim Almanac: a reference work on the history, faith, culture
and peoples of Islam
Azim Nanji
REF BP 40 M83 1996
Muslim Diaspora: a comprehensive reference to the spread of Islam
in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas
Everett Jenkins
REF BP 50 J46 1998
Muslim Peoples: a World Ethnographic Survey
Richard Weekes
REF DS 35.625 A1 M87 1984 (2 vol.)
Muslim Women Throughout the World: a bibliography
Michelle Kimball
REF Z 7963 I74 K56 1997
Christianity
Christianity - Encyclopedias and Texts
The Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version
REF BS 191 A1 1989 N49
Books of the Bible
Bernhard A. W. Anderson
REF BS 540 B62 1989 (2 vol.)
Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition
Jaroslav Pelikan and Valerie Hotchkiss
REF BT 990 C64 2003 (4 vol.)
Encyclopedia of the Early Church
Angelo Di Berardino
REF BR 66.5 D5813 1992 (2 vol.)
New Catholic Encyclopedia
Berard L. Marthaler
REF BX 841 N44 2003 (15 vol.)
The New Interpreter's Bible
Leander E. Keck, et. al.
REF BS 491.2 N484 1994 (12 vol.)
The Papacy: an Encyclopedia
Philippe Levillain
REF BX 955.3 D5313 2002 (3 vol.)
Oxford Campanion to Christian Thought
Adrian Hastings
REF BR 95 O84 2000
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
Hans J. Hillerbrand
REF BR 302.8 O93 1996 (4 vol.)
Christianity - Dictionaries
The Anchor Bible Dictionary
David Noel Freedman
REF BS 440 A54 1992 (6 vol.)
Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible
Keith R. Crimm
REF BS 440 I63 (4 vol. and suppl.)
Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
F.L. Cross and E.A. Livingstone
REF BR 95 O8 1997
Judaism
Judaism - Encyclopedias, Handbooks amd Texts
Encyclopaedia Judaica
REF DS 102.8 E496 (18 vol.)
Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust
Shmuel Spector
REF DS 135 E8 E45 2001 (3 vol.)
Encyclopedia of Judaism
Jacob Neusner
REF BM 50 E53 2000 (3 vol.)
Jewish Encyclopedia; a descriptive record of the history, religion,
literature and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times
to the present day (1925)
Isidore Singer and Cyrus Adler
REF BM 50 J4 (12 vol.)
Jewish Religion: a Companion
Louis Jacobs
REF BM 50 J28 1995
Midrash rabbah
H. Freedman and Maurice Simon
296 M584 (10 vol., not in Reference)
Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion
R.J. Zwi Werblowsky and Geoffrey Wigoder
REF BM 50 O94 1997
Talmud
REF BM 499.5 E5 1961
Talmud: the Steinsaltz edition
Adin Steinsaltz
Oversize BM 499.5 E4 1989 (21 vol., not in Reference)
Tanakh - JPS Hebrew English Tanakh: the traditional Hebrew text
and the new JPS translation
BS 895 J4 1999 (not in Reference)
Tikkun: the Torah Readers Compendium
Aliza Kestenbaum et. al.
REF BS 1225.3 A3 2001
Buddhism, Hinduism and Other
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and Source Books
A to Z of Buddhism
Charles S. Prebish
REF BQ 130 P73 2001
A to Z of Hinduism
Bruce M. Sullivan
REF BL 1105 S847 2001
Dictionary of Buddhist Terms and Concepts
REF BQ 8409 D53 1983
Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience: Studies of Traditions
and Movements
Charles H. Lippy and Peter W. Williams
REF BL 2525 E53 1987 (3 vol.)
Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions
James R. Lewis
REF BL 2525 L49 1998
Encyclopedia of Unbelief
Gordon Stein
REF BL 2705 E53 1985 (2 vol.)
Harpers Dictionary of Hinduism: it's Mythology, Folklore, Philosophy,
Literature and History
Margaret and James Stutley
REF BL 1105 S88
Hindu World
Benjamin Walker
REF BL 1105 W34 (2 vol.)
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism
James G. Lochtefeld
REF BL 1105 L63 2002 (2 vol.)
Pilgrimage: From the Ganges to Graceland: an Encyclopedia
Linda Kay Davidson and David M. Gitlitz
REF BL 619 P5 D38 2002 (2 vol.)
Rastafari and Reggae: a Dictionary and Source Book
Rebekah Michele Mulvaney
REF BL 2532 R37 M84 1990
Routledge Curzon Encyclopedia of Confucianism
Xinzhong Yao
REF BL 1840 R68 2003 (2 vol.)
Other resources for locating
information on books and media include:
Books
in Print
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Style
Manuals
A collection of style manuals and writing guides are kept
on the shelf behind the reference desk. Information is also available
from the Citation
Guides for Print and Electronic Resources page.
Databases
& Indexes
A full listing of all scholarly databases is available
grouped by subject
or listed alphabetically.
ATLA
Religion Index
Compiled by the
American Theological Library Association, ATLA Religion Database
covers Biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious
perspectives on social issues. This database is an essential resource
for theology students and researchers seeking information pertaining
to social sciences, history and humanities. With coverage dating
as far back as 1949, this database contains over one million bibliographic
records.
Biblical Archaeology Society
Online Archive
A comprehensive resource for research in Biblical Archaeology. Content
includes Biblical Archaeology Review, as well as five books published
by the BAS: Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction
of the Temple, Aspects of Monotheism: How God Is One, Feminist Approaches
to the Bible, The Rise of Ancient Israel and The Search for Jesus:
Modern Scholarship Looks at the Gospels.
Religion
and Philosophy Collection
This database 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. Religion
& Philosophy Collection offers more than 300 full text journals,
including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential
tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical
studies. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost
Index
Islamicus
The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle
East and the Muslim world. It is produced by the Islamic Bibliography
Unit at Cambridge University Library. The Unit was established in
1983 to continue the compilations and publications of the Index
Islamicus bibliography and to transmit knowledge about Islamic
and Middle East studies, which have been part of the curriculum
at CambridgeUniversity since the early 17th century. Records
included in the database cover almost a century of publications,
with some going back to 1906.
Material cited in the Index Islamicus includes not only work written
about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim
areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere.
Over 2,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database,
together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored
works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the
article and chapter level.
Internet
Resources
General
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/CompReligion
University of Washington Libraries Comparative Religion Resources
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2730
Voice of the Shuttle – Religious Studies
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~religion/vri/index.html
Rutgers – Virtual Religion Index
http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Religion_and_Spirituality/Faiths_and_Practices/
Yahoo’s directory of Religious Faiths and Practices
Subject
Headings
Library of Congress Classification for Religion
(Philosophy, Psychology, Religion)
B - Philosophy (general
BC - Logic
BD - Speculative philosophy
BF - Psychology.Parapsychology. Occultism
BH - Aesthetics
BJ - Ethics. Social usages. Etiquette
BL - Religion, Mythology, Rationalism
BM - Judaism
BP - Islam. Bahaism.Theosophy, etc.
BQ - Buddhism
BR - Christianity
BS - Bible
BT - Doctrinal theology
BV - Practical theology
BX - Christian denominations
Assistance
For assistance in locating or using these or other sources,
please contact the Reference
Desk or schedule an appointment for a Personalized
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