Warren Hunting Smith Library: Religious Studies: Subject Guide

SUBJECT | RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Keywords and Phrases

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Here are some sample search combinations for Religious Studies:

(supernatural OR uncanny) AND "classical antiquity"
"religious freedom" AND Bible
theocracy AND "Israeli history"

Scholarly Articles

Humanities Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Full text access to scholarly articles in the humanities discipline.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary collection of scholarly articles and ebooks.
ProQuest Social Science Collection This link opens in a new window
Search for articles in subjects specific to the social sciences on ProQuest.
Philosopher's Index This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles written about philosophy since 1940.

Ebooks

Black Thought & Culture This link opens in a new window
Non-fiction texts (books and periodicals) by Black leaders.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new window
Ebooks from the British Isles and North America printed from 1400-1700.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary collection of ebooks. Most (not all) are unlimited in usage.

Hathitrust Digital Library
HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository providing long-term preservation and access for public domain and in copyright content from research libraries worldwide. Hathi offers over 10 million volumes with 33% available full-text.

Very Short Introductions This link opens in a new window
This collection contains over 69 ebooks devoted to myriad subjects relating to religion and philosophy.

Early Writings, Reports, and Foundational Texts

American Jewish Archives
The AJA exists to preserve the continuity of Jewish life and learning for future generations and aspires to serve scholars, educators, students, and researchers of all backgrounds and beliefs. Today the AJA houses nearly 8,000 linear feet of archives, manuscripts, photographs, audio and video tape, microfilm, and genealogical materials.
Archives of the Episcopal Church
The archives aim to unlock the institutional memory of the Episcopal Church in the United States. Their archives contains corporate records, personal papers, documents about affiliate organizations, and more.
Cambridge University Early Christian Works
Full text reproductions of Christian manuscripts and early printed books, spanning over 1000 years of worship and debate and reflecting both Church ceremonial and private devotion.
Hartford Institute for Religion Research
Affiliated with Hartford Seminary, this site is helpful for sociological research on religion. It features articles, studies, descriptions of methodology, and other scholarly materials for sociological topics, and serves as an annotated directory of online organizations, data resources, scholars, and research relevant to its subject.
International Religious Freedom
The International Religious Freedom report is submitted annually by the Department of State in compliance with Section 102(b) of the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) of 1998. This report supplements the most recent Human Rights Reports by providing detailed information involving international religious freedom. It includes individual country chapters on the status of religious freedom worldwide.

Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954 This link opens in a new window
Original manuscript collections from the holdings of the American Jewish Historical Society in New York.

The Quranic Arabic Corpus
This ongoing, open source project is a richly annotated linguistic resource for researchers which shows the Arabic grammar, syntax and morphology for each word in the Holy Quran. A contextual interlinear translation in English for each Arabic word is also given. The "English Translation" section shows up to seven parallel translations for each verse. Project of the Language Research Group, University of Leeds in the UK.
Texts from the Early Church
Full-text collection of writings from the early Christian church. Authors include John Chrysostom, Jerome and Augustine with links to other documents relating to the Church from late antiquity. Maintained by Fordham University.

ARTstor

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
Images of artistic works from museums and organizations worldwide.

Very Short Introductions

Thomas Aquinas: a Very Short Introduction by Fergus Kerr
ISBN: 9780199556649
Publication Date: 2009-11-30
The Book of Mormon: a Very Short Introduction by Terryl L. Givens
ISBN: 9780195369311
Publication Date: 2009-08-31
Sikhism: a Very Short Introduction by Eleanor Nesbitt
ISBN: 9780198745570
Publication Date: 2016-07-01

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