Reference Tools for Religious Studies - Hinduism

The following bibliography lists library resources of possible use to students studying Hinduism. The majority of the sources listed here are either located in the Van Pelt Library Reference Area or area available electronically via the Penn Library Web.

For links to additional web resources such as e-journals, comprehensive web sites, and source collections on the web, see Religious Studies: Selected Resources.

For assistance in using these and the many other reference works available for Religious Studies, please consult a reference librarian.

Library Catalogs

Franklin uses Library of Congress subject headings. For subject heading, terms see the Library of Congress Subject Headings, located near the reference desk on the first floor of the Van Pelt Library. Also, when looking at Franklin records of interest, chose the "full view" and note the subject headings assigned to these works. Many subjects are subdivided by such standard forms as bibliography, collections, dictionaries, periodicals, or by the names of places. LC Subject Headings must be entered in Franklin without the dashes.

Main Card Catalog. The Main Catalog in Van Pelt Library is now closed. It lists books, journals, and other materials in most campus libraries through 1985. The catalog is arranged in "dictionary" style--that is, with author, title, and subject entries interfiled in a single alphabet.

RLIN/Eureka Bibliographic File - Research Libraries Group Catalog
A bibliographic catalog of over 30 million books, serials, archives and manuscripts, musical scores, visual materials, maps, and data files held in over 100 large research libraries and current cataloging of the Library of Congress and the British Library. Since the catalog is so large, the best method for searching is to use known items such as authors, titles, or Library of Congress subject headings. Use this catalog to identify materials that Penn does not own and request them through Interlibrary Loan.

WorldCat Another large, 30+ million union catalog that includes the holdings of many university, college, and public libraries. Several Philadelphia-area libraries are included in WorldCat.

Library Catalogs Worldwide
A web page with links to the Bibliotheque Nationale and several German institutional or union catalogs.

Bibliographies

Dell, David J. Guide to Hindu religion. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1981.

This work covers English-language resources on Hinduism. There is no Subject Index, so the user must rely on the topical arrangement of the work in order to locate items by subject. Author Index.

[Van Pelt Reference BL1202 D44 1981]

Hinduism: a select bibliography. Ed. by Satyaprakash; comp. by Syed Mohammed Ali, H.S. Sharma. Gugaon: Indian Documentation Service, 1984.

Lists over 11,000 research and general interest articles, research papers, notes, and book reviews. Classified using Library of Congress Subject Headings. Includes a list of journals indexed. Subject and author access.

[South Asia Reference Z7835 B8 A45 1984]

Indexes

ATLA religion database Evanston, Ill: American Theological Library Association.

Contents: Religion index one: periodicals (1949-) -- Religion index two: multi-author works (1960-) -- Index to book reviews in religion (1949-) -- Research in ministry (1981-) -- Methodist reviews index (1818- 1985).

Bibliography of Asian Studies.

1971-present

All subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, South Asia, and Indian Ocean countries.

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Mylius, Klaus. Wörterbuch des altindischen Rituals. Wichtrach : Institut für Indologie, c1995.

[Van Pelt Library BL1236.34 .M95 1995]

Sen, Chitrabhanu. A dictionary of the Vedic rituals : based on the 'Srauta and Grhya s¯utras. Delhi: Concept Pub. Co., 1978, c1976.

[Van Pelt Library South Asia Reference (Rm. 551) BL1126.49 S46]

Stutley, Margaret and Stutley, James. A dictionary of Hinduism,1500 B.C. - A.D. 1500. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1977.

Arranged in alphabetical order with cross-references. Lengthy bibliography.

[South Asia Reference BL1105 S89]

Sullivan, Bruce M. The A to Z of Hinduism. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, c2001.

Brief entries with no bibliography. Includes a chronology and introduction to Hinduism.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks BL1105 .S847 2001]

Sullivan, Bruce M. Historical dictionary of Hinduism. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1997.

[Van Pelt Reference BL1105 .S85 1997]

Walker, George Benjamin. The Hindu world, an encyclopedic survey of Hinduism. New York: Praeger, 1968. 2v.

[South Asia Reference BL1105 W34 1968]

Werner, Karel. A popular dictionary of Hinduism. Surrey : Curzon, 1994.

[Van Pelt Reference BL1105 .W47 1994; also South Asia Reference]

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