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REL 231 - Religion in America

Basic Library Services

• Reference Librarians are here to help! Visit us, call us, email us, or chat with us!
• Library hours
• Finding It! A Research Skills Tutorial : A self-paced tutorial in eight chapters.
  Learn how to prepare for a research paper, pick the right research tools, search for information in our online catalog, in databases and on the web!

Background Information

Religion Encyclopedias from Gale

• Search eight religion and history encyclopedias at once.
• Includes Contemporary American Religion, Encyclopedia of American Religions, and many others

Routledge Religion Resource

• Search over 25 dictionaries and encyclopedias at once.
• Includes Encyclopedia of African American Religions, Religion and American Law, and many others

Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience eds. Charles H. Lippy and Peter W. Williams

• Location: Reference Room
• Call number: ref BL 2525 E53 1988
• 3 volumes

Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics by Paul Djupe and Laura Olson

• Location: Reference Room
• Call number: ref BL 2525 D58 2003

Encyclopedia of American Religious History eds. Edward L. Queen II, Stephen R. Prothero, and Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr.

• Location: Reference Room
• Call number: ref BL 2525 Q44 2001
• 2 volumes

Encyclopedia of American Religions by J. Gordon Melton

• Location: Reference Room
• Call number: ref BL 2525 M449 2003

Electronic Databases

ATLA (Religion Index)

• Jackson Library's only religion-specific index
• ATLA indexes articles, essays, book reviews, and books.
• If you find something you like, note what type of material it is so you can locate it.

Tips:

• if "linked full text" is not available, mark the item or items you are interested in and print that list
• if the item you need is an article, check our holdings using Journal Finder
• if the item you need is a book or an essay from a book, use the Library Catalog
• do your searching in ATLA early, so that you can take advantage of Interlibrary Loan

Academic Search Premier

• Contains the full-text of many religious studies journals including History of Religions and Journal of Religious History, as well as other journals on a variety of subjects.

Proquest Research Library

• Contains the full-text of journals such as The Journal of Religion, as well as many others.
• Click on the tab labeled "Scholarly Journals" to eliminate magazine and newspaper articles.

• 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
• Remember to narrow by discipline and type of article to get fewer results

Library Catalog

• Use this to find books in the library
• Search using the search connectors AND and OR
• More about Search Connectors from our Research Tutorial Finding It!

Websites

Search the Web
A selection of search engines and directories that can help you find the information you need.

Guidelines for Evaluating Web Resources
Suggestions for how to make sure the stuff you get off the web is quality material. From our online tutorial Finding It!.

Style Guides

Chicago Style Reference Sheet

APA Style Reference Sheet

MLA Style Reference Sheet

All style manuals are also available in print at the Reference Desk.

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