Religion Study Guide

Databases

• ATLA (+Serials)
  Essential resource, containing bibliographic records from journals, essays, book reviews and more- EBSCOhost
• Humanities Full Text
  Full-text articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays, television, and radio programs from Humanities Index- WilsonWeb Omnifile Mega
• World History Collection
  Offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for nearly 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964. EBSCOhost
• Religious and Theological Abstracts
  Wide variety of periodical literature, including Christian, Jewish, and other world religions, and provides English language abstracts of articles in English, Hebrew, Afrikaans, and major European languages.
• The Philosopher's Index
  Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. Covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language- Silverplatter

Books

• Encyclopedia of Religion
  by Lindsay Jones
  BL31 .E46 2005
  The second edition of this now-standard reference work reflects changes in academia and in the world since the first edition was published in 1987; while including almost all of the 2,750 entries of the first edition -- many now heavily updated -- the second edition has approximately 600 entirely new articles. Preserving the best of Mircea Eliade's cross-cultural approach, while emphasizing religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture, this new edition is the definitive work in the field for the 21st century. An international team of scholars and contributors have reviewed, revised and added to every word of the classic work, making it relevant to the questions and interests of all researchers. The result is an essential purchase for libraries of all kinds. 
• God's Rule : the Politics of World Religions
  by Jacob Neusner
  BL65 .P7 G635 2003
  Resisting the tendency to separate the study of religion and politics, editor Jacob Neusner pulls together a collection of sterling authorities who probe and explore the relationship between the world's major religions and political power. As William Scott Green writes in the introduction, "Because religion is so comprehensive, it is fundamentally about power; it therefore cannot avoid politics." Beginning with the classical sources and texts of Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Confucianism, and Hinduism, God's Rule begins to explore the complex nature of how each religion shapes political power, and how religion shapes itself in relation to that power. The corresponding attention to differing theories of politics and views towards nonbelievers are important not only to studies in comparative religion, but to foreign policy, history, and governance as well. From early Christianity's relationship to the Roman Empire to Hinduism's relationship to Gandhi and the caste system, God's Rule provides a basis of understanding from which undergraduates, seminarians -- indeed all citizens of this shrinking and increasingly violent planet -- can begin asking questions of relationships "both unavoidable and systematically uneasy."
• Many peoples, many faiths : women and men in the world religions
  by Robert S. Ellwood, Barbara A. McGraw
  BL80.3 .E44 2002
  An introductory college level text addressing the conceptual, worship, and social factors of religious life, beginning with cosmic religions of prehistoric and tribal peoples and profiling the major religions of the world. Revised to integrate the role and experience of women in religion throughout the text. Description from Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

Journals

• Buddhist-Christian Studies
  Presents Buddhism and Christianity and their historical and contemporary interrelationships, Buddhist-Christian Studies presents thoughtful articles, conference reports, and book reviews- Project Muse
• History of Religions
  Presents essays, book reviews and book notes on the study of historical religious phenomena, either within particular traditions or across cultural boundaries, and integrates several disciplines’ results of the science of religion- EBSCOhost
• Religion and American Culture
  Provides a diversity of methodological approaches & theoretical perspectives on the nature, terms & dynamics or religion in America- EBSCOhost
• Religious Studies
  Presents problems of the philosophy of religion as they arise out of classical and contemporary discussions and from varied religious traditions- Cambridge Press
• The Philosophical Quarterly
  Premier journal for publishing articles reporting the results of accounting research and explaining and illustrating related research methodology. Current issues found in EBSCOhost- JSTOR
• Additional Journals

Websites

• Holy Koran- IslamiCity.com
  Provides an electronic version of an English translation of the Qur'an- Librarian's Index to the Internet
• Muslim Life in America
  Captures the range and richness of ordinary Muslim life in American through photographs, words, and statistics- Librarian's Index to the Internet
• Resources for the Study of Buddhism
  Contains a short introductory reading list; links to general sites, Sutras, and texts; and links and writings related to Buddhism and children, Theravada and Mahayana teachings, science, vegetarianism, animal welfare, death and dying, and respect for parents- Librarian's Index to the Internet
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