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Religion Research Guide

Print Sources: A good starting point is the reference section of the library, which will provide outlines on various topics. Some good sources to consult are the following:

Antes, Peter, ed. New Approaches to the Study of Religion: Regional, Critical, and Historical Approaches. Walter de Gruyer: New York, 2008. 291 N532an

Carroll, Bret E. The Routledge Historical Atlas of Religion in America. Routledge: New York, 2000. R 200.9730 C319r

Christiano, Kevin J. Sociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments. Rowan and Littlefield Publishers: Lanham. MD, 2008.306.6 C555s

Crowe, Benjamin D. Heidegger’s Phenomenology of Religion: Realism and Cultural Criticism. Indiana University Press: Bloomington, IN, 2008.210.92 H465 Zc

Comay, Joan. Who’s Who in the Old Testament. Oxford University Press: New York, 1993.R 221.92 C728w

Guinn, David E, ed. Handbook of Bioethics and Religion. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2006. R 174.957 H236gu

Hall, Timothy L. American Religious Leaders. Facts on File, Inc.: New York, 2003.R 200.92273 H193a

Levinson, David. Religion: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO: Denver, 1996.R 200.3 L665r

Mann, William E., ed. The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion. Blackwell Pub.: Malden, MA, 2005. R 210 B632ma

Mays, James L. gen. ed. The Harper Collins Bible Commentary. Harper SanFrancisco: San Francisco, 2000. R 220.7 H295m

Mead, Frank S. and Samuel S. Hill. [Revised by Craig D. Atwood] Handbook of Denominations in the United States 11^th Ed. Abingdon Press: Nashville, 2001. R 200.973 M479h 11th

Metzger, Bruce M. and Michael D. Coogan eds. The Oxford Guide to People & Places of the Bible. Oxford University Press: New York, 2001. R 220.903 O98m

Meyers, Carol Gen Ed. Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament. Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston, 2000.
R 220.92082 W872m

Olson, Carl. Religious Studies the Key Concepts. Routledge: Abingdon, NY, 2011. [NetLibrary book]

The New Interpreter’s Bible Vol. 1. Abingdon Press: Nashville, 1994. R 220.77 N532n

Wade, Nicholas. The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why it Endures. Penguin Press: New York, 2009.201 W1231f

Williams, Peter W. America’s Religions From Their Origins to the Twenty-first Century. University of Illinois Press: Urbana, IL, 2008.200.973 W726a 3^rd ed.

Worth Jr., Roland H. Biblical Studies on the Internet. McFarland & Company: Jefferson, North Carolina, 2002. R 220.16 W932b

Wuthnow, Robert, ed. Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion. CQ Press: Washington, 2007.R 322.103 E56w

Electronic Databases and Print Indexes

HUMANITIES INDEX R 016.0013 H918h INDEX TABLES

INDEX TO JEWISH PERIODICALS R 016.296 I88i INDEX TABLE

OLD TESTAMENT ABSTRACTS R 221.605 O44o INDEX TABLE

Project Muse: contains such full text journals as: The Journal of Early Christian Studies and Modern Judaism

READER’S GUIDE TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE R 051 R286r INDEX TABLE

SOCIAL SCIENCES INDEX R 016.3 S768s INDEX TABLES

TEL: Expanded Academic ASAP (allows the user to limit the search to scholarly journals), InfoTrac OneFile, and General Reference Center Gold all provide varying degrees of full text access.

Internet Resources

The Internet Sacred Text Archive

The Hindu Universe

Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library:

Jainism: Jain Principles, Tradition, and Practices

Judaism and Jewish Resources

Sikhism

Religious Studies Electronic Journals