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Gateway for Religion
hand-picked
resources selected by
Wichita State University's
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"Hindoo Gods"
cigarette card
(ca. 1908-1916). From the George Arents collection, New York Public Library
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Books and
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WSU Databases
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E-Resources
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Websites |
Discussion Lists and
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Books and Journals
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Some Library of Congress call numbers
useful for Religion include B:Philosophy; BL:
Religion; D:
History; JC: Political Theory-Theory of the State; M: Music; ND: Illuminating of
Manuscripts and Books; NX: Religious Arts. Works of and about
religious or sacred theatre, ritual, etc. are arranged by country
and time period; try the library's Online Catalog "Keyword
Relevance" search using terms such as sacred drama or
religious theatre england.
The library owns the microfilm set of
Early English Books, an excellent resource for finding primary
material on religion from the 15th through 18th centuries. The films
and indexes are located along the east wall of the Periodicals room.
Many items are individually cataloged in the library's Online
Catalog. Subject, title, and author indexes can also be searched
using the
English Short Title Catalogue of the British Library.
Current journals can be found in the Periodicals area on the main floor,
while older issues are bound and placed in the stacks.
Journals that either no longer
publish or that are
available in full text electronically may have been placed in
Compact Shelving. Items that go into Compact Shelving can be used
and checked out on the same terms as when they were in the general
stacks, but they will have to be requested at the Circulation Desk.
The Reference
Stacks, on the main floor, contain specialized encyclopedias,
dictionaries, etc. These works are catalogued using the same LC system as
books on the lower, second,
and third floors, but they do not circulate.
Recommendations from
the Reference Stacks:
General works on religion:
Works on individual religions and
sacred books:
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The 15 volume New Catholic
Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. (2002) is at BX841.N44
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The Encyclopedia of the
Lutheran Church, 3 vols. (1965) is at BX8007.B6
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The New Encyclopedia of Islam,
3rd ed. (2008) is on order. Check back for the call number.
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An Historical Atlas of Islam
(2002) is on the Atlas Stand
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The 17 volume first edition of
the Encyclopaedia Judaica (1972) is in with the Folio
reference books at DS102.8.E5 and the less tall 22
volume second edition (2007) is at the same call number in
normal order. Check both editions, as the second did not
bring over everything from the first.
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Strong's New Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible
(1990) is at BS425.S8
Works on aspects of religion:
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The Encyclopedia of Religion, Communication, and Media
(2006) is at P94.E48
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The Encyclopedia of Religion in American Politics
(1999) is at BL2525.E52
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The Encyclopedia of Women and
World Religion (1999), in 2 volumes, is at BL458.E53
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The 3 volume Encyclopedia of
Women and Religion in North America (2006) is at
BL458 E52 and is also available as an
e-book
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The History of Science and Religion in the Western
Tradition (2000) is at BL245.H57
Works on myth and folklore:
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Medieval Folklore (2 vols.) (2000) is at
GR35.M43
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There are 21 volumes of Man, Myth and Magic (1995) on
the shelf at BF1411.M25
Related reference:
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The 13 volume Dictionary of
the Middle Ages (1982) and the 6 volume Encyclopedia
of the Renaissance (1999) are on Index Table 4 on
the main floor
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The Oxford Latin Dictionary
(1982) is at E5.O9
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The 10 volumes (bound in 5) of
the 1954 Glossarium Mediae et Infimae Latinitatis are
at PA2889.D8
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The Dante Encyclopedia
(2000) is at PQ4333.D36
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WSU
Databases and E-Resources
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current WSU students, staff,
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Other WSU Libraries subject gateways you
might find useful include
English,
Spanish,
French,
Philosophy,
Medieval/Renaissance, and
History. Not restricted
to WSU students, staff or faculty.
Use the
WSU Libraries Online Catalog from the library's
homepage to search for
books and journals (but not journal articles). Hint: search Journal
Title rather than Title when looking for journals and other
periodicals. The catalog is available to the general public from
offsite. To contact a reference librarian by e-mail, telephone, or
IM/chat, use WUKnows! Not restricted
to WSU students, staff or faculty.
Learn about
the Ransom Butler
Department of Religion at WSU. Not restricted
to WSU students, staff or faculty.
Listen to sacred music or get scores
from WSU's
Music Library, Room C116 Duerksen.
EndNote
is software that helps you store and manage citations for your
research projects and papers. It can format references and
automatically create bibliographies using a variety of style
manuals. Free to download for current WSU students, staff, and
faculty.
See which
electronic
journals the WSU Libraries subscribes to, or search the
Online Catalog for a specific title.
The WSU Libraries provides descriptions
and links to netLibrary
and a number of outside free E-Books
sites. Some electronic reference books on religion include the 7th
edition of the
Encyclopedia of American Religions (2003),
Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America (2006),
the
Concise Encyclopedia of Language and Religion (2001), the
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World (2004),
Humanities Full Text and Social Sciences
Full Text are two
WilsonWeb databases are useful for finding material about
religion, and they are cross-searchable. Here's a
video on using WilsonWeb.
JSTOR is a collection of
searchable full text, pdf-formatted journals in the Arts, Humanities
and Social Sciences. The journals go back to their first issues up
to the last 3-5 years. In some cases there are links to more current
content. HINT: Clicking the article name in a record will only
download one page at a time. Select the "Download" link to see or
print an entire PDF article.
The
MLA International Bibliography
is a database of citations of journal articles, conference papers,
dissertations, books, etc. in the areas of literature, language, linguistics,
and folklore from 1963 to the present. Here's a
guide to help
you. The
MLA Directory of Periodicals provides important information on all of the
5,800 journals they index, such as contact information, submission guidelines,
the number of articles submitted and the number actually published, and so much
more.
The MLA Handbook chapter on
how to cite Internet
sources is available online. You can also try
EasyBib.com, which will format
information from over 50 types of sources and even help you create a
Works Cited list. Free, but with advertising.
Oxford
Art Online (incorporating Grove Art Online) and
Oxford Music Online (incorporating Grove Music Online) combine a
biographical dictionary, encyclopedia, and images. Also contain
excellent external links and citations to scholarly articles.
Oxford Reference Online Premium features electronic versions
of several reference works, including translating dictionaries.
Project MUSE is similar to
JSTOR except that the content includes only the most recent few
years (varying, depending upon the journal). In some cases Project
MUSE picks up where JSTOR leaves off.
The
Religion and Philosophy database from Gale has citations and
full text from a large variety of American, British, and Canadian
publications. Well worth a look, especially for topics that related
philosophy to other disciplines. Currently contains over 730,000
articles.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is WSU's primary database for
scholarly articles about music.
Web of Science can search humanities, social sciences, and
science indexes simultaneously to locate article citations.
WorldCat catalogs books, journals, audio, video, and other
resources from hundreds of libraries worldwide.
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Useful and Interesting Websites
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Bartleby. One of
the oldest sites on the World Wide Web, Bartleby’s goal is to
publish the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference in
full text. If it’s out of copyright and was ever considered
important, chances are good you’ll find it here.
The University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign provides a digitized copy of the
Book of Mormon.
The
Cooperative Digital
Resources Initiative of the American Theological Library
Association and Association of Theological Schools is a repository
of digital images from many sorts of media, all connected to the
study of religion.
The Digital Librarian (Margaret Vail
Anderson) has an outstanding collection of links on her
Religion
and Philosophy page.
For a gorgeous collection of maps of the
Holy Land, see the
Eran Laor
Cartographic Collection. Searchable by persons, date, or site,
and even zoomable with the provided plugin.
Folklinks.
An extensive collection of organized links to reference sources,
full text e-books, scholarly work, and much more having to do with
folklore and fairy tales.
View nice images of the
Göttinger Gutenberg Bible and learn about the significance of
the printed book.
The University of Alberta has a page
containing links to various
Hebrew Biblical texts, translations (to English and other
languages) and related resources.
Luminarium.
The virtual candy store for medieval, Renaissance, and Restoration-studies
kids.
The
Religious Movements Homepage at the University of Virginia
visitors will find "detailed profiles of more than two hundred
different religious groups and movements." Nice overview articles,
links, and bibliographies.
Resources for Electronic Research from the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. A stunning
collection of links to websites of use to researchers working on
topics in the Reformation and Renaissance.
The
Review of Biblical Literature
provides free scholarly book reviews, courtesy of the Society of
Biblical Literature.
The
Internet Sacred Text
Archive bills itself as "the largest freely available archive of
online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on
the Internet.
The
Septuagint, or
Greek version of the Old Testament, is available in a new English
translation online.
Silva Rhetoricae/The
Forest of Rhetoric, from Brigham Young University. The place to go
to learn your asteismus from your thaumasmus.
The
Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy is still being added to, but there are dozens
of high-quality articles available now.
Don't miss
Turning
the Pages, a project
from the British Library, which makes available sections of over a dozen
unique books from the several disciplines in a format that allows the user to virtually
"turn” pages,
magnify sections, and read or listen to commentary. The technology
is to scanning as Wii is to Pong.
The
U.S. Religious Landscape
Survey is a collection of interactive maps, charts, and
information about our religious beliefs and practices. Gleaned from
the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life's interviews of over 35,000
Americans.
The official homepage of the
Vatican, from which
you can take virtual tours, read official papal documents, find out
who has been canonized since 1979, and more.
The
Virtual Religion Index
is a fantastic gateway of links useful to the study of religion.
The
Writing Center at WSU can help students with everything from
developing a topic to specific writing problems. They will not write
a paper for you.
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Discussion Lists and Blogs
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Baylor University hosts
Certain Doubts:
devoted to matters epistemic.
If you're interested in the philosophy
of religion, The
Prosblogion is chockfull of interesting discussions on the
topic.
Tabsir:
Insight on Islam and the Middle East is a blog maintained by
scholars who "are committed to fair, open-ended scholarly assessment
of the current political issues of terrorism, gender inequality and
intolerance."
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