Religious Studies: Selected Web Resources

• Indexes/Databases in Religious Studies and Related Fields including ATLA Religion Database.
• Electronic Journals
  • Electronic Journals in Religious Studies
    There are other full-text journals in religion and related fields included in general databases such as Academic Index.
  • See also the ATLA Serial Collection
    A subset of the ATLA database. All journals included are fulltext.
• New Books+
  Books, journals, databases, and other Library materials are organized by date of receipt, Library location, type of material, or any combination of the above.

• Virtual Religion Index - Rutgers University, Religion Department
  Frequently updated and well-maintained and organized web site for all aspects of religion.
• Wabash Center Guide to Internet Resources for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion - Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
  A selective guide, with useful annotations, to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are teaching or studying in religion and theology at the undergraduate and graduate level.
• Directory of Internet Resources for the Study of Religion is compiled by Mike Madin. Easy to use with good annotations. Frequently updated.

• American Academy of Religion (AAR) and related organizations such as the Association of Theological Schools in the United States in Canada, Society of Biblical Literature, and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. See also the web sites for the American Schools of Oriental Research and the Biblical Archaeology Society.
• The Council of Societies for the Study of Religion is a federation of learned societies in religion interested in developing greater coordination of the field as a whole. This site contains information about both the CSSR and its constituent societies, an index to Religious Studies Review, and a searchable directory of the nearly 1600 departments and programs of religious studies in North America.

• Oxford Reference Online: Religion and Philosophy
  Online version of the following titles: A Dictionary of the Bible, The Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion, The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, The Oxford Dictionary of Popes, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, The concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions.
• Catholic Encyclopedia - Free access to the 1913 edition.
• Glossary for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - compiled by Robert Kraft, University of Pennsylvania.
• The Jewish Encyclopedia - The complete contents of the 12 vol., 1901-1906 edition.
• Sacred & Religious Texts from Penn's Religious Studies Department and CCAT

• See the SBL Publication Catalog for its current list of titles.
• AcqWeb has a large list of Religion Publishers.
• Two other religion book publishers not listed on AcqWeb are the American Bible Society's Catalog and Margot King's Peregrina Publishing Co, which publishes translations of monastic and feminine spirituality from the early years of the Common Era up to the present day.
• The Center for Judaic Studies Library maintains a list of Judaica Booksellers.

• Religious Studies Department
  See also the Jewish Studies Program, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Classical Studies Department, South Asia Regional Studies Department, the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies and its Library.
• Recommend a new title for the Library.
• See the Library's Collection Development Policy for Religious Studies.
• Ask a reference question.
• Religious Studies bibliographies of important Reference tools in the Penn Library
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