Religious Studies

Department Homepage: Center for Religious Studies

Contact Reference: reference@libserv.ucmo.edu or call 660-543-4154

Subject Bibliographer: Steve Walker walker@libserv.ucmo.edu

The following databases indexes articles in religion among their many subjects. The first deals exclusively with religion.

ATLA :: The religion database indexes periodicals, book reviews, and essays; the focus is Christian religion and theology.

Academic Search Complete :: Multidisciplinary database of scholarly and peer reviewed journals dating back to 1975

Article 1st :: Index of articles from nearly 13,000 journals, 1990-present

Credo Reference :: Online access to over 160 full text reference books

Dissertation Abstracts :: Dissertation abstracts from 1861-present; masters theses from 1988-present; ONLY at JCKL Reference

Ebook Collection :: Hundreds of electronic books covering the humanities

Electronic Collections Online :: An OCLC collection of scholarly journals

Essay and General Literature :: Citations of essays and articles from collections of essays and miscellaneous works.

Ethnic News Watch :: Database of newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press

Gender Watch :: Women's issues from an international perspective; interdisciplinary

JSTOR :: Historical journal articles in the humanities, social sciences, business, ecology, and general science

MLA Bibliography :: Indexes articles on modern languages, literature, linguistics, communication disorder, and folklore

Net Library :: Collection of over 5,000 full-text books in many subjects

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center :: Provides information on social issues and current events

Oxford Reference Online: Premium :: Contains text from over 100 dictionaries and an encyclopedia in a cross-searchable database; logout when finished

PapersFirst :: Index to papers presented at conferences, 1993-present

PerAbs :: Abstracts from over 1,500 journals; radio and television transcripts; ONLY at JCKL Reference

Proceedings :: Index of conference publications, 1993-present

Reference Universe :: Database of back-of-the-book indexes and article titles to subject enyclopedias and reference works

WilsonSelectPlus :: Abstracts 800 journals in science, humanities, and business ONLY at JCKL Reference

WorldCat :: More than 47 million books and other materials in 39,000 libraries worldwide; 11th century-present

Church History	Journal of Religion
Hinduism Today	Moment
History of Religions	Near Eastern Archaeology
Interpretation	Nova Religio
Islamic Horizons	Parabola
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion	Perspectives in Religious Studies
Journal of Communication and Religion	Religious Studies

Note: This is not an exhaustive journal list

Virtual Religion Index is designed to aid researchers in religion. This is a collection of links by topic (e.g., "Biblical Studies").

Finding statistics on religion in the U.S. can be a challenge. Try ARDA. From the ARDA site: "The American Religion Data Archive (ARDA) ... acts to preserve quantitative data on American religion, to improve access to this data, to increase the use of the data, and to allow comparisons across data files. The ARDA collection includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations)."

The Jewish Encyclopedia contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations.This searchable website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume set, which was originally published between 1901-1906.