REL 323 - Religious Movements and Communities: Tantra
Basic Library Services
Background Information
Religion Encyclopedias from Gale
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
- Entries on all major and many minor religions, cults, movements and sects.
- Includes information on sacred texts, biographies, traditions and more.
- 8,200 entries; Oxford University Press, 2000.
Electronic Databases
JSTOR
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- 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.
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.
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 Journal of Indian Philosophy and The Journal of Religion, as well as many others.
- Click on the tab labeled "Scholarly Journals" to eliminate magazine and newspaper articles.
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
Hobson-Jobson
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
Using Chicago Style
The manual is also available in print at the Reference Desk.
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