Databases
Articles (Journals & Magazines)
ATLAS
Full-Text Plus (ATLA)- Use when you need to search for articles from journals or magazines whose main or complete focus is on religion..
- ATLAS is the most important, most complete index for religion materials.
- Also indexes books.
- ATLAS is the full-text, online equivalent of Religion Index.
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- Provides full-text of over 450 scholarly articles in a variety of disciplines.
- Typically, coverage of a journal starts with its first issue and ends 2-7 years ago
- Narrow by discipline and type of article to get fewer results
Ebsco
Academic Search Premier
- Indexes many important religion journals.
- Academic Search Premier is our largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full text database.
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Infotrac
Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac)
- Like Academic Search Premier, you can use Expanded Academic ASAP to find articles on religion in both scholarly journals and popular magazines.
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- Indexes major journals in the arts and humanities.
- Especially useful for tracing where publications have been cited. Includes book reviews.
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Humanities and Social Science Retrospective
- Indexes the core scholarly, English-language journals published between 1907 and 1984.
- Includes citations to more than 1 million articles, including book reviews.
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Related Resources (History, Psychology, Sociology, Education)
- Use this database to search for articles and books about the history of religion in the United States and Canada.
- America: History and Life covers the history and culture of North America from prehistory to the present.
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- Use this database to search for articles and books about the history of religion in the world outside of North America.
- Historical Abstracts covers historical topics from 1450 to the present.
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- Useful for history of religion in Europe during the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Reformation.
- Indexes several hundred journals covering European history 400-1700.
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- Use to find articles related to the psychological aspects of religious belief, as well as the psychological approaches of various religions.
- PsycINFO indexes articles, books, chapters in books, and dissertations.
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SocIndex with Full Text (SIFT)
- Covers articles from over 4,000 sociology journals.
- Provides abstracts for more than 750 core journals dating as far back as 1895.
- Also includes the full text of more than 700 books and 6,800 conference papers.
- Good for finding articles and other materials that discuss education and religion, including topics such as: religious education, conflicts in education due to religious beliefs, and religious studies.
- ERIC indexes journals, research and technical reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations, and books.
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Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.
Oxford Reference - Religion and Philosophy- Use to find brief articles, background information, suggested readings, dates, statistics, biographies and more.
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- Books in this set cover a variety of topics from world religion to specific faiths, biography to statistics and more.
- Some also focus on special topics in religion such as violence or monasticism.
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Religious Studies Resources
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