Research and Course Guides: Religion: Home

World's Major Religions

Adam Matthew Complete Collection This link opens in a new window
Nearly 80 historical archives are present in this massive and expansive collection. Content from a few collections may be inaccessible, but the majority of the resources are fully activated.

Included are: Church Missionary Society Periodicals; Jewish Life in America 1654-1954..

Use RefWorks to keep track of references
for research projects and automatically
format a paper and the bibliography.

Encyclopedia of American Religions
Detroit : Thomson/Gale, c2003
Describes religious sects and cults across U.S.
Religion in South Carolina
ed. by Charles H. Lippy; Columbia, SC University of South Carolina Press, c1993
The South Carolina Encyclopedia
Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2006
Entries on Asian Religions, Baha'is, Baptists, Catholics, Charismatics, Episcopalians, Jews, Methodists, Muslims, Latter-Day Saints, Lovers of Meher Baba, Pentecostals, Slave Religion, more
Digital South Carolina Encyclopedia
Builds on the 2006 volume; joint project of South Carolina Humanities, the University of South Carolina Press, the USC Libraries, the USC Center for Digital Humanities, the USC College of Arts & Sciences, the USC Institute for Southern Studies, the South Carolina State Library, and many other organizations

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries This link opens in a new window
Online; multiple volumes; set up account for best functionality

Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary This link opens in a new window
Online; 6 volumes; set up account for best functionality

Word Biblical Commentary
Clemson owns many volumes; go to "Local Note" to see them listed

Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this cutting-edge resource directs researchers to the best available scholarship across a wide variety of subjects. Subject sets currently include African American Studies, Biblical Studies, Cinema & Media Studies, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, Latino Studies, Literary and Critical Theory, and Philosophy.

Learning Ancient Greek
from The Center for Hellenistic Studies, Harvard University; textbook should be via PASCAL
Greek 101: Learning an Ancient Language series via Kanopy
presented by Hans-Friedrich Mueller, Ph.D., Union College, Schenectady, NY; includes workbook supplement

Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
brief articles
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices (2014 online; 2nd ed.)
available in print 2006 1st ed.
REF BL 80.3 .W67 2006 (Cooper Library 5th beside Starbucks)
Encyclopedia of Religion
longer, more in-depth articles

ATLA Religion Database This link opens in a new window
index to articles (many with a link to full-text article) published in journals and books from 1949 to the present
Index Islamicus This link opens in a new window
international publications on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world; includes items by western orientalists, social scientists, and Muslims writing in European languages
L'Année Philologique This link opens in a new window
index to literature, languages, archaeology, history, economy, philosophy, art, religion, science, technology, and all other aspects of ancient Greece and Rome (prehistory to 800 C.E.); publications 1924-present

ETANA - Electronic Tools & Ancient Near Eastern Archives
subject gateway; use Abzu for Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, including articles, websites, books and presentations; use Core Texts for digitized versions of ancient Near Eastern texts; use eTact for translations of Akkadian works
How to Be a Perfect Stranger : A Guide to Etiquette in Other People's Religious Ceremonies
"For people of all faiths, all backgrounds" from cover
Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America
print & online; well-illustrated reference collection for anyone interested in the role of women in North American religious life