Print Reference Sources
Bible (NRSV, New Oxford Annotated Bible)
Main Ref BS 191.5 A1 2001 .N49
Catholic Almanac
Main Ref AY 81 R6 N3 2007
Encyclopedia of Christianity (5 vols.)
Main Ref BR 95 E8913 1999
Encyclopedia of Early Christianity (2 vols.)
Main Ref BR 162.2 E53 1997
Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics
Main Ref BR 115 E58 2006
Encyclopedia of Protestantism (4 vols.)
Main Ref BX 4811.3 E53 2004
New Catholic Encyclopedia (15 vols.)
Main Ref BX 841 N44 2003
Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Main Ref BR 95 O8 2005
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
Main Ref BR 302.8 O93 1996
Timeline Charts of the Western Church
Main Ref BR 149 P48 1999
Libraries and Research Centers
- A guide to the American Religions Collections at UCSB Special Collections in Davidson Library.
- Includes J. Gordon Melton's manuscript collection.
Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University
- Encourages intellectual exchange and interdisciplinary scholarly studies about religion
- Offers diverse perspectives of the humanities and social sciences.
- Examines religion comparatively and empirically in its diverse historical and contemporary manifestations.
Center for the Study of American Religion & Culture
- A research and public outreach institute devoted to the promotion of the understanding of the relation between religion and other features of American culture.
Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism
- A leading center for the historical study of Roman Catholicism in the United States.
Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Religion and Public Life
- Promotes the study of religious pluralism.
- Provides a useful list of links to other pages about this topic.
Primary Sources
- This is a complete electronic version of the 68 print volumes published by the Société des Bollandistes in Antwerp and Brussels. The contents examine the lives of the saints.
- A collection of religious adherent statistics and religious geography citations. Contains references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc.
All-in-one Biblical Resources Search
- Engine which searches the full text of several versions (in several languages) of the Judeo-Christian Bible.
The American Religion Data Archive
- A database of quanitative data on American religions including churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups.
- Primary History Documents from Western Europe.
- Provides high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects
- Online archive of sacred texts from many of the world's religions. Scroll down the left side and click on a tradition.
- Christian Texts
- Contains the works of the Church Fathers from 200 CE to 1216 CE
- Tufts University's digital library project, containing materials related to: Greece & Rome, Renaissance, 19th century America and more. Access to Greek and Latin lexica.
- This site has thousands of full-text articles on Religious Studies, but its focuses are Christianity and sociology.
- Contains primary and secondary source material for researching the Restoration Movement (out of which came the Churches of Christ, the Christian Churches, and the Disciples of Christ).
- Links to various Shaker manuscripts.
- This database contains nearly all ancient Greek texts (from 8th Century BCE to 600 CE). It also has several texts from 600 - 1453 CE. The collection is steadily growing as more Greek and Byzantine authors are being added.
Online Reference Sources
- Online version of the 1913 edition.
Catholic Studies, UCSB
- An encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and legend. Covers a variety of cultures and time periods.
- Sponsored by the Institute for Religious Research, this page provides criticism on different aspects of the Church of Latter Day Saints.
- Directory of internet resources of possible interest to New Testament scholars.
ORB--Online Encyclopedia for Medieval Studies
- Online encyclopedias, other reference works and links for study of the Medieval Period.
- A Dictionary of the Bible
- Encyclopedia of Middle Ages
- Oxford Companion to the Bible
- Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible
- Oxford Dictionary of Saints
- Oxford Dictionary of Popes
- Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
- Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
- Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Eygpt
- Annotated guide to religion resources on the Internet.
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