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 | Subject Librarian: Susan Gangl E-Mail: s-gang@tc.umn.edu This subject covers: the spiritual history and practices of human beings from mythological times to the present. Other related subjects are Philosophy, and Middle East Studies. |
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Article Databases and Indexes
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ATLA Religion Database    The standard, highly recommended research database in the fields of religion and theology. Produced by the American Theological Library Association.
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| Index to Jewish Periodicals An index on Jewish history, activity and thought. This database provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. Most references are not found in standard periodical literature guides. Index to Jewish Periodicals is intended for students of Jewish thought and others interested in contemporary Jewish and Middle Eastern affairs.
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| Oxford Islamic Studies Online Includes the full content of four key scholarly works, 180 entries from the six-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, two essential English-language interpretations of the Qur'an, the first electronic version of the standard Concordance used by English-speaking scholars around the world, and primary source documents.
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| Oxford Reference Online This resource brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single
cross-searchable resource. Also includes the following titles in religion: |
| Religion Compass home page Religion Compass guides students, researchers and non-specialist scholars through the accumulating body of literature, and navigates the field by laying out the territory, describing divisions and subdivisions of Religious Studies and identifying the major issues within those sections - ISSN: 1749-8171
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Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
| Ecole biblique et archéologique française. Bibliothèque EBAF Bibliothèque St. Étienne de Jérusalem, École Biblique et Archéologique Française catalog
Ecole biblique et archéologique française. Bibliothèque
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| Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective searches nearly 1200 of the most important journals in these subject areas. Useful for interdisciplinary and historical research.
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| Index Islamicus (online) This Brill database is an international bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world. It covers their history, beliefs, societies, cultures, languages and literature. The file contains indexing for over 3,400 titles with coverage dating back to 1906
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| Index Theologicus This database contains document descriptions from more than 600 periodicals, plus Festschriften and congress publications in many languages. Check MNCAT for holdings.
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| Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance Iter is a bibliography of over 230,000 articles and reviews drawn from
over 475 medieval and renaissance journal titles.
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| New Testament Abstracts The product of a partnership between ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, this database is a research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu.
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| Old Testament Abstracts The product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Biblical Association, this database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Content from over 450 journals is covered. |
| RAMBI [electronic resource] "RAMBI - The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies - is a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Articles are in English in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages, and are based scientific research, or contain important information for such research. Coverage is from 1966 to the present.
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Catalogs and Bibliographies
Catalogs
| MNCAT (University of Minnesota library catalog) Search for books, conference proceedings, journals, maps, and other items in our collection.
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| MNCAT Bible subject headings guide for use in searching in MNCAT and other library book catalogs
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General Reference Sources
Atlases & Maps
Dictionaries
Encyclopedias
| Encyclopaedia Judaica (online) This online resource is an updated edition of this lauded work on Judaism features more than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists. This is the online version; (a 2007 print version is also available, located in Wilson Library Reference Quarto DS102.8 .E496 2007) [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Encyclopaedia of Islam Online The Encyclopaedia of Islam Online covers Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, bringing scholars and researchers access to over 13,000 articles (number or articles in volumes I-XI, excluding supplements on every aspect of Islam. The online edition offers access to Volumes I-XI of the English edition, plus the
Index of Subjects to Volumes I-XI, Index of Proper Names to volumes I-X, and supplements.
New data will be added to the online edition as they become available in the print edition.
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| Encyclopedia of Religion The second edition of a resource that is considered a standard reference in the field. Presents a cross-cultural approach that emphasizes religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture. The original 2,750 entries have been retained, many heavily updated, and approximately 600 entirely new articles have been added by an international team of scholars and contributors. See also print copy at Wilson Library Reference Quarto BL31 .E46 2005
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| Encyclopedia of Religious and Spiritual Development [electronic resource] [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Interdisciplinary Documentation on Religion and Science provides an "anthology of documents" and an interdisciplinary encyclopedia on religion and science, including: - more than 80 anthological texts, from classical and contemporary authors - about 60 articles from the Intedisciplinary Encyclopaedia of Religion and Science -Teachings from the Vatican [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| New Catholic Encyclopedia Prepared by an editorial staff at the
Catholic University of America. Selected articles from the earlier Catholic Encyclopedia are available on the World Wide Web.
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General Reference Works
| Oxford Handbooks - Religion Access to 4 titles only: The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls The Oxford Handbook of Evangelical Theology The [Oxford] Handbook of Religious Diversity. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Religious and Theological Abstracts (online) Summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals, covering a wide variety of periodical literature including Christian, Jewish, and other World religions. Provides English language abstracts of articles in English, Hebrew, Afrikaans, and major European languages.
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Guides
| Print Reference Sources in Religious Studies compiled by the Religious Studies librarian, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
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Internet Resources
Electronic Texts
| Acta Sanctorum The Acta Sanctorum Database is an electronic version of the complete printed text of Acta sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur (Antwerp; Brussels: Society des Bollandistes, 1863- (68 vols.) and found in Wilson Library Annex Folio 270 Ac8). The Database contains the entire Acta Sanctorum, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indices. Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina reference numbers are also included.
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| CTI Textual Studies Guide - excerpt Essay extracted from F Condron, M Fraser, S Sutherland - CTI Textual Studies Guide to Digital Resources for the Humanities (Oxford: Humanities Computing Unit, 2000)" NOTE: due to the date some links may not be accurate, but the essay remains generally useful.
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| Oxford companion to archaeology [electronic resource] Edited by Brian M. Fagan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Online version features articles which provide authoritative entries on a range of subjects, including biographies of the great figures in the field, extensive coverage of the methods used in archaeological research, together with essays that examine human evolution and the many general facets of culture.
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Gateways & Megasites
| Harvard Library Resources for Teaching Fellows in the Study of Religion Keep in mind that we own a lot of the electronic resources listed here but you need to access them through the University of Minnesota Libraries Web site, and not via Harvard's site.
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| Internet Medieval Sourcebook The Internet Medieval Sourcebook, constructed from available public domain and copy-permitted texts, is organized as three main index pages (selected sources, full-text sources and saints' lives), with a number of supplementary documents.
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Library Web Sites
| Sacred Spaces: Anthropological Aspects of Sacred Landscapes and Monuments [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Search Engines
| Buddhist Digital Library and Museum The Scholarly Databases currently holds over 100,000 bibliographies and provides over 2,600 full texts on various subjects for free access and download.
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Web Sites
| American Academy of Religion - Survey Information CONTENTS:
Graduate Programs
- Survey of Graduate Religion and Theology Programs
Provides the results of the 2002-2003 Survey of Graduate Programs.
- Finding List
An online database of academic doctoral programs in the United States and Canada.
Undergraduate Programs
- Survey of Undergraduate Religion and Theology Programs
Provides information about the field for strategic decision-making and other sources of data on schools, departments, and programs.
- Finding List
An online finding list for information on undergraduate departments, programs, and schools in the United States and Canada.
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| CDRI: cooperative digital resources initiative The CDRI database provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography. The CDRI is a joint project of the American Theological Library Association and the Association of Theological Schools, with funding from the Henry Luce Foundation.
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Multimedia Materials
Image Resources
| ARTstor ARTstor is a cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.
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Primary Source Materials
Archival Materials
| Eighteenth Century Collections Online Eighteenth Century Collections Online captures the essence of the Enlightenment in Great Britain between 1701 and 1800. ECCO allows full-text searching of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. It includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more. Search opens with the Overview highlighted. Scroll down to the section on Philosophy and Religion to learn more about the contents of this database.
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Historical Documents
Sacred Texts
| Dead Sea Scrolls online "The Israel Museum welcomes you to the Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Project, allowing users to examine and explore these most ancient manuscripts from Second Temple times at a level of detail never before possible. Developed in partnership with Google, the new website gives users access to searchable, fast-loading, high-resolution images of the scrolls, as well as short explanatory videos and background information on the texts and their history. The Dead Sea Scrolls, which include the oldest known biblical manuscripts in existence, offer critical insight into Jewish society in the Land of Israel during the Second Temple Period, the time of the birth of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism. Five complete scrolls from the Israel Museum have been digitized for the project at this stage and are now accessible online."
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Statistics and Data
Statistical Resources
| ARDA [electronic resource] : the association of religion data archives The targeted audience and the data collection include American and international collections and developing features for educators, journalists, religious congregations, and researchers. Data are submitted by the foremost religion scholars and research centers in the world. Currently housed in the Social Science Research Institute at the Pennsylvania State University, the ARDA is funded by the Lilly Endowment, the John Templeton Foundation, and the Pennsylvania State University.
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| World Religion Database "The World Religion Database (WRD) contains detailed statistics on religious affiliation for every country of the world. It provides source material, including censuses and surveys, as well as best estimates for every religion to offer a definitive picture of international religious demography. It offers best estimates at multiple dates for each of the world's religions for the period 1900 to 2050."--Home page, Brill site.
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Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software
| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.).
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Writing Guides
| QuickStudy -- Citing Sources QuickStudy: Library Research Guide from the University of Minnesota provides examples online for APA, MLA and Turabian styles, including how to cite electronic sources.
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