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Religion |
This guide covers a diverse group
of the systems of faith and worship throughout the world. You may also wish to consult the
Philosophy Guide and the Mythology Guide.
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| Contents
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Background
Information | Facts & Figures
| Find Articles |
Find Books | Primary Sources
| People | Organizations
| Web Resources
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Background
Information (Overview Sources)
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Encyclopedias and other reference
works are an excellent place to start a research project or
simply learn more about a particular topic. They provide
topic summaries, context, and bibliographies for further reading.
Encyclopedia
of
African American
Religions
(R
200.8996073 En19)
Encyclopedia
of
American
Religions (R
200.973 M495e)
Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities
(R 291.21103 C83215e)
Encyclopedia
of
Angels
(R 291.21503 G945e)
Encyclopedia
of
Cults, Sects, and New
Religions
(R 200.3 L587e)
Encyclopedia of Islam (R
297.03 En19)
Encyclopaedia Judaica
(R 296.03 En19)
Encyclopedia
of
Native American
Religions
(R
299.703 H616e)
Encyclopedia of Religion (R 200.321 En19)
Encyclopedia
of
Sacred Places (R 291.3503 B783e)
Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (R 220.3 In8)
New Catholic Encyclopedia (R 282.03 N42 2003)
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (R 220.2
St88)
World
Christian Encyclopedia: a Comparative Study of Churches and
Religions
in the Modern World, AD 1900-2000
(R 203.21 W893 1982)
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| Facts
& Figures (Fact Sources) |
Use dictionaries, statistical works, atlases, handbooks and
similar works to find and check facts about topics, people,
or events.
Anchor Bible Dictionary
(R 220.3 An21)
Atlas of the World's Religions (R 291.0223 At65)
Dictionary of Biblical
Allusions in English Literature
(R 820.93 F957d)
Dictionary of Buddhism
(R 294.303 K439d)
Dictionary of Christianity in America
(R 277.3003 D561)
Harper's Concise Atlas of the
Bible (R 912.56 H231)
Hindu World (R 294.503
W152h)
How To Be a Perfect Stranger: a
Guide to Etiquette in Other People's Religious Ceremonies (R 291.38 H83 1999)
New
Historical Atlas of Religion in America
(R 912.1200973 G238h 2001)
Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
(R 203 Ox2 1997)
Oxford
Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (R 296.03 Ox2)
Oxford
Dictionary of World Religions (R 200.3 Ox2)
World
Christian Encyclopedia: a Comparative Study of Churches and
Religions in the Modern World,
Wycliffe Bible Dictionary
(R 220.3 W972)
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Find Articles |
Search indexes, abstracts, and databases
to find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. For
a complete list of Kent Library's online indexes and databases,
see the Find:
articles page (http://library.semo.edu/find/articles.asp).
To find historical/source materials,
such as newspaper and magazine articles, use the following print sources:
Periodical Articles on
Religion, 1890-1899
Indexes/Abstracts Area, Main Floor
Guide To
Social Science and Religion in Periodical Literature,
1975-1988
Index/Abstracts Area, Main Floor
Guide to Social
Science and Religion, 1988-1995
Index/Abstracts Area, Main Floor
Index to Religious
Periodical Literature,
1963-1968,
1971-1976
Index/Abstracts Area, Main Floor
Religion Index One, 1949-1959,
1977+
Index/Abstracts Area, Main Floor
New York Times Index, 1851+
Index/Abstracts Area, Main Floor
Official Index to the Times & The Times Index,
1906+
Index/Abstracts Area, Main Floor
Readers' Guide to Periodical
Literature, 1900+
Index/Abstracts Area, Main Floor
To find recent articles and scholarly/peer-reviewed articles
use the following online databases:
Academic Search Premier
Historical Abstracts
JStor
Project Muse
Proquest Research Library
Wilson OmniFile
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Find General
Collection Books |
Use the Kent
Library Catalog (http://library.semo.edu/find/books.html)
to find books, periodicals (journals, magazines, & newspapers),
videos, government documents and other materials.
Keyword searches allow you
to use your own words as search terms.
Subject heading searches use Library of Congress subject
headings. Printed volumes of these headings are located near
the Reference Desk on the main floor.
Church
Faith
Religion
Religions
Spiritual life
Theology
Names of individual religions
Titles of sacred texts
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Browse the shelves by call
number. Use the Dewey
Decimal chart (http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/fi_books_dd_list.htm)
to get you in the right subject areas or try the following:
200 - Religion
922 - Biographies of Religious Figures
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| Primary
Sources |
Analects of Confucius
(181.1 C76a - Reserve Desk)
Bhagavad Gita (294.5924 B469b - Reserve Desk)
Gleanings from the
Writings of Bahullh (297.89208 B147s2 1976 - Kent Stacks)
Holy Bible: Authorized King James Version
(R 220.5203 B471ho 1974)
Holy Qur'an : Arabic
Text with English Translation and Short Commentary
(297.1227
K84h 1994 - Reserve Desk)
Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching
(299.51482 L299l - Kent Stacks)
New Interpreter's Bible (R 220.77 N42)
New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha (R 220.5204
B71n 1973)
Sacred Scriptures of the Japanese (Kojiki and Nihongi)
(952.01 W566s - Kent Stacks)
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
(294.682 Sr31 1984 -
Kent Stacks)
Torah, the Five Books of Moses (221.B471t - Kent Stacks)
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| People |
Learn about important people, such
as authors, researchers & historical figures related to
this topic or field.
Dictionary of American Religious Biography
(R 209.22 B672d)
Oxford Dictionary of
Saints (R 270.0922 F229o3)
Who's Who of World Religions
(R 922 W62)
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Organizations |
Professional organizations and/or
societies often provide very useful topic related information.
American Academy of Religion
(http://www.aarweb.org/)
American
Interfaith Institute
(http://www.americaninterfaith.org)
North American
Patristics Society
(http://moses.creighton.edu/NAPS/)
Society of Biblical
Literature
(http://www.sbl-site.org/)
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| Web
Resources |
Adherents.com
(http://www.adherents.com)
All-In-One Biblical
Resources Search
(http://www.ntgateway.com/multibib/)
American Religion Data Archive
(http://www.thearda.com/)
BBC World Service: Your Guide to Religions of the World
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/world_religions/)
Catholic Encyclopedia
(http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/)
Christian Classics Ethereal
Library
(http://www.ccel.org/)
Christianity Today
(http://www.christianitytoday.com)
Ecole Initiative:
Creating a Hypertext Encyclopedia of Early Church History on the
World-Wide-Web
(http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb/)
Guide to Early Church Documents
(http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-history.html)
Interfaith Calendar
(http://www.interfaithcalendar.org/)
Pluralism
Project (Harvard University)
(http://www.pluralism.org/index.php)
Religions of the World
(http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/religion/)
Review of Biblical
Literature
(http://www.bookreviews.org/)
Virtual Religions
Index
(http://virtualreligion.net/vri/)
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For a list of Web searching
tools, see the
Find: web resources page (http://library.semo.edu/find/webpages.html).
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created by IS/JM, revised by IS/MM
last updated: 5/16/05 |