Religion:A Guide to Finding Information

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias | Handbooks & Directories | Atlases
Sacred Books | Scriptural/Textual Resources | Dictionaries & Handbooks | Commentaries | Books | Bibliographies | Audio-Visual Resources | Periodical Indexes & Abstracts | Area Resources | Internet Resources |

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias help define terminology

Dictionaries

Ref BL31 .O84 Bowker, John, ed. The Oxford dictionary of world religions. NY: Oxford, 1997.

Ref BL31 .D54 Brandon, S.G.F. A Dictionary of Comparative Religion. NY: Scribner, 1970.

Ref BJ1199 .W47 Childress, James F. and John Macquarrie, eds. The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Ethics. Philadelphia, PA: Westminster, 1986.

Ref BL31 .A24 Crim, Keith, ed. The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions. San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1989.

BL625 .F43 Ferguson, John. Encyclopedia of Mysticism and Mystery Religions. NY: Crossroad, 1982.

BL31 .P36 Parrinder, Edward Geoffrey. A Dictionary of Non-Christian Religions. Philadelphia, PA: Westminster, 1973.

Ref BR95 .R47 Richardson, Alan. A Dictionary of Christian Theology. Philadelphia, PA: Westminster, 1969.

Ref BT83.55 .D53 Russell, Letty M., and J. Shannon Clarkson. Dictionary of Feminist Theologies. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1996.

Ref BL1005 .L4813 Schumacher, Stephan and Gert Woerner, eds. The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion. Boston, MA: Shambhala, 1989.

Ref BL458 .W34 Walker, Barbara G. The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets. San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1983.

Ref BM50 .O94 Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi, and Geoffrey Wigoder, eds. The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion. NY: Oxford, 1997.

Encyclopedias provide overview and background information.

Ref DS35.53 .I83 Donzel, E. van. Islamic Desk Reference. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994.

Ref BR95 .N395 Douglas, J. D., ed. New Twentieth-Century Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1991.

BL31 .E46 Eliade, Mircea, ed. The Encyclopedia of Religion. NY: Macmillan Reference, 2005.

Ref DS102.8 .E53 Encyclopaedia Judaica. NY: Macmillan, 1972.

Ref DS37 .E523 Gibb, H.A.R., ed. The Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden: Brill, 1960-1978.

Ref BP40 .G42 Glasse, Cyril. The Concise Encyclopedia of Islam. San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1989.

Ref BL31 .E4 Hastings, James, ed. Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics. NY: Scribner, 1908-26.

Ref BX 4811 .3 .E53 Hillerbrand, Hans J, ed. The Encyclopedia of Protestantism. NY: Routledge, 2004.

Ref BR302.8 .O93 Hillerbrand, Hans J. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. NY: Oxford, 1996.

Ref BL2525 .E53 Lippy, Charles H., and Peter W. Williams, eds. Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience. NY: Scribner, 1988.

Ref BX841 .N44 New Catholic Encyclopedia. Detroit: Thomson, Gale, 2003.

Ref BR95 .S435 The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1949-50.

Ref BL2525 .Q44 Queen, Edward L., Stephen R. Prothero and Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. The Encyclopedia of American Religious History. NY: Facts on File, 2001.

Handbooks & Directories list resources and biographical information

BR146 .E35 Dowley, Tim. Eerdman's Handbook to the History of Christianity. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1977

Ref BL31 .M4 Melton, J. Gordon. The Encyclopedia of American Religions. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1996.

Ref BR95 .O8 Livingstone, E. A., ed. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. NY: Oxford, 2005.

Ref BT990 .E58 Melton, J. Gordon, ed. The Encyclopedia of American Religions, Religious Creeds. Detroit, MI Gale, 1988.

Ref BL2525 .R47 Melton, J. Gordon. Religious Leaders of America. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1991.

Ref BR526 .C48 Quinn, Bernard, ed. Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990. Atlanta, GA: Glenmary Research Center, 1982.

Ref BR513 .Y4 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, latest year in reference, other in stacks.

Atlases include collections of maps

DS36.85 .A39 Al-Faruqi, Ismail R., and Lois Lamya al-Faruqi. Cultural Atlas of Islam. NY: Macmillan, 1986.

BL80.2 .F28 Al-Faruqi, Ismail, ed. Historical Atlas of the Religions of the World. NY: Macmillan, 1974.

Ref G1201 .E4 N4 Gaustad, Edwin Scott. New Historical Atlas of Religion in America. NY: Oxford, 2001.

Ref G1030 .G48 Gilbert, Martin. The Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilization. NY: Macmillan, 1990.

Ref G1046 .E4 L5 Littell, Franklin Hamlin. The Macmillan Atlas History of Christianity. NY: Macmillan, 1976.

Ref G1046 .E4 M6 Meer, Frederik van der, and Christine Mohrmann. Atlas of the Early Christian World. London: Nelson, 1958.

Ref DS35.6 .R6 Robinson, Francis. Atlas of the Islamic World Since 1500. NY: Facts on File, 1982.

Sacred Books

PJ1555 .E5 B7 The Book of the Dead. NY: Barnes and Noble, 1956.

BP135 .A124 .E54 Bukhari, Muhammad ibn Ismail. Jami al-Sahih. Ankara: Hilal Yayinlari, 1976- .

BM525 .A4219 .C63 Cohen, Martin Samuel, tr. The Shiur Qomah: Liturgy and Theurgy in Pre-Kabbalistic Jewish Mysticism. Lanham, MD: Univ. Press of America, 1983.

BL1410 .C58 Conze, Edward. Buddhist Scriptures. Baltimore, MD: Penguin, 1959.

BM500 .E57 Epstein, I., ed. The Babylonian Talmud. London: Soncino, 1935-48.

Ref BS185 .C3 The Holy Bible: Old and New Testaments in the King James Version. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1970.

Ref BS195 .N39 The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments with the Aprocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books. New Revised Standard Version. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1990.

BL2430 .S45 Karenga, Maulana, tr. Selections from the Husia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient Egypt. Los Angeles: Kawaida, 1989.

BM497.5 .E5 L55 Lipman, Eugene J., tr. The Mishnah: Oral Teachings of Judaism. NY: Schocken, 1974.

BL610 .A59 Meyer, Marvin W., ed. The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook: Sacred Texts of the Mystery Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean World. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987.

BL1010 .S3 Muller, F. Max, ed. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 1-50. London: Oxford, 1880-1927.

Ref BS195 .N35 New American Standard Bible. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1977.

Ref BS192 .A1 .N4 The New English Bible with the Apocrypha. London: Oxford, 1970.

F1456 .P814 Popol Vuh: the sacred book of the ancient Quiche Maya. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma, 1950.

BP 109 2004 The Qur'an. NY: Oxford, 2004.

BM525 .A6 .A27 Rosenberg, Roy A., tr. The Anatomy of God: Book of Concealment. NY: Ktav, 1973.

BQ1100 .S21 Sacred Books of the Buddhists, vol. 1-6, 16-19. London: Oxford, 1895-1978.

BL1432 .Z4 .S82 Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro. Manual of Zen Buddhism. NY: Grove, 1960.

BS 1223 The Torah, the Five Books of Moses. Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1963.

BL70 .T7 Turnbull, Grace H. Tongues of Fire: A Bible of Sacred Scriptures of the Pagan World. NY: Macmillan, 1929.

BM525 .W3 Waite, Arthur Edward. The Holy Kabbalah. London: Williams and Norgate, 1929.

E99 .H7 W3 Waters, Frank. Book of the Hopi. NY: Ballantine, 1969.

Scriptural/Textual Resources

HISTORY

BS445 .C26 Ackroyd, P. R., C. F. Evans, G. W. H. Lampe, and S. L. Greenslade, eds. The Cambridge History of the Bible. Cambridge: Cambridge, 1963-70.

DS35.6 .C3 Holt, P. M., Ann K. S. Lambton, and Bernard Lewis, eds. The Cambridge History of Islam. Cambridge: Cambridge, 1970.

CONCORDANCES

BM500.5 .G6 Edelmann, Rafael, ed. Subject Concordance to the Babylonian Talmud. Copenhagen: E. Munksgaard, 1959.

Ref BS425 .E4 Ellison, John William, comp. Nelson's Complete Concordance of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible. NY: Nelson, 1957.

BP133 .K37 Kassis, Hanna E. A Concordance of the Quran. Berkeley: Univ. of California, 1983.

Ref BS425 .K645 Kohlenberger, John R. The NRSV Concordance Unabridged. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1991.

Ref BS425 .S8 Strong, James. The New Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. Nashville, TN: T. Nelson, 1996.

Ref BS425 .Y7 Young, Robert. Analytical Concordance to the Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdman, 1973.

QUOTATIONS

BP135 .A3 .A5 Ali, Muhammad, tr. A Manual of Hadith. Lahore: Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat Islam, 1951.

BP110 1988 Cragg, Kenneth, tr. Readings in the Quran. San Francisco: Collins, 1988.

BP189.62 .W57 Cragg, Kenneth, tr. The Wisdom of the Sufis. NY: New Directions, 1976.

Ref BS432 .D34 Day, A. Colin. International Thesaurus of the Bible. NY: HarperCollins, 1992.

BM512 .G55 Glatzer, Nahum N., ed. Hammer on the Rock: A Short Midrash Reader. NY: Schocken, 1962.

PJ5035 .H4 Hertz, Joseph Herman. A Book of Jewish Thoughts. NY: Block, 1939.

BM198 .N4 Newman, Louis I. The Hasidic Anthology. NY: Bloch, 1944.

Ref BS432 .S667 Stevenson, Burton. The Home Book of Bible Quotations. NY: Harper, 1949.

Dictionaries & Handbooks

Ref BS440 .I63 Buttrick, George Arthur, ed. The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible. NY: Abingdon, 1962.

Ref BS440 .I63 Crim, Keith, ed. The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible: Supplementary Volume. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1976.

Ref BS440 .A54 Freedman, David Noel, ed. The Anchor Bible Dictionary. NY: Doubleday, 1992.

Ref BS491.2 .N484 The New Interpreter's Bible. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1994- .

Commentaries

BS192.2A1 1964.G3 Anchor Bible. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964- .

BP130.4 .A835 Ayoub, Mahmoud. The Quran and Its Interpreters. Albany, NY: State Univ. of New York, 1984.

BS130 .B4 Bell, Richard. Introduction to the Quran. Edinburgh: Edinburgh, 1953.

BM502.3 .S3 .B64 Bokser, Baruch M. Samuel's Commentary on the Mishnah. Leiden: Brill, 1975.

Ref BS491 .I65 Buttrick, George Arthur, ed. The Interpreter's Bible. NY: Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1951-57.

BM517 .R3 .A3 Freedman, H., and Maurice Simon, eds. Midrash Rabbah. London: Soncino, 1951.

BM506 .A23 Goldin, Judah, tr. The Living Talmud. Chicago: Univ. of Chircago, 1958.

BS1186 .H28 Halivai, David Weiss. Peshat and Derash: Plain and Applied Meaning in Rabbinic Exegesis. NY: Oxford, 1991.

BM506 .A23 .H43 Herford, R. Travers, tr. Pirke Aboth. NY: Schocken, 1962.

BM498.5 .E5 Neusner, Jacob. The Talmud of the Land of Israel. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 1982.

Books

CONSORT, the online catalog, identifies books owned by Ohio Wesleyan. Look up specific religions, such as "Christianity," "Hinduism," or "Islam" or a broader term like "Religion," "Religions" or "Religious ..." to find appropriate subject headings.

Bibliographies list books and other resources

Z7833 .A35 Adams, Charles J., ed. A Reader's Guide to the Great Religions. NY: Free Press, 1977.

Z7751 .B47 Berkowitz, Morris I, and J. Edmund Johnson. Social Scientific Studies of Religion. Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1967.

BL458 .C39 Carson, Anne. Feminist Spirituality and the Feminine Divine. Trumansburg,NY: Crossing, 1986.

BL458.R45 C37 Carson, Anne. Goddesses and Wise Women: The Literature of Feminist Spirituality, 1980-1992. Freedom, CA: Crossing, 1992.

Ref Z7835 .B8 D44 Dell, David J. Guide to Hindu Religion. G. K. Hall, 1981.

Z7751 .D54 Diehl, Katharine Smith. Religions, Mythologies, Folklores. NY: Scarecrow, 1962.

Ref Z7835 .M6 G84 Ede, David. Guide to Islam. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1983.

Ref Z7770 .G66 Gorman, G. E., and Lyn Gorman. Theological and Religious Reference Materials. Westport, CN: Greenwood, 1984.

Ref Z7835 .B8 H64 Holland, Barron, comp. Popular Hinduism and Hindu Mythology. Wesport, CN: Greenwood, 1979.

Z7128 .B93 I53 Inada, Kenneth K. Guide to Buddhist Philosophy. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1985.

Z6366 .K33 Kaplan, Jonathan, ed. Two thousand Books and More. Jerusalem: Magnes, 1983.

Ref Z7835 .M6 L6 Pearson, J. D., comp. Index Islamicus. London: Mansell, 1958-77.

Ref Z7860 .R48 Reynolds, Frank. Guide to Buddhist Religion. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1981.

BP603 .C86 .T87 Turner, Harold W. Bibliography of New Religious Movements in Primal Societies. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1977-90.

Audiovisual Resources

The Audio Visual Center on the lower level of Beeghly has several films of interest to those studying religion. Use "Religion" in the "Media Software Catalog's" to see the range of available titles.

Periodical Indexes & Abstracts

Academic Search Complete includes index, abstracts, and full text for many scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study.

ATLA Religion Index (1949- ) is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion.

Area Resources

The Methodist Theological School in Ohio (METHESCO), located about three miles south of Ohio Wesleyan on highway 23, has additional resources.  Click here to access their online catalog.