Religious Studies Databases

A cited reference index, indicating which works were cited in the bibliographies of articles in over 1,400 journals in the arts and humanities. 1993-present.

Project funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. and acts to preserve and improve access to quantitative data on American religion. Includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations).

Index to periodicals, research in ministry, book reviews in religion and Methodist reviews. 1949-present. Updated semi-annually. Includes online versions of the entire runs of a core collection of more than fifty significant scholarly periodicals in the field of religion, most of which go back to 1949.

Includes citations to articles published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers. 1981-present.

The Center at Boston College is dedicated to the growth of new and mutually enriching relationships between Christians and Jews. This website offers educational and dialogical aids, theological articles, official documents, and program information.

Version three is not meant to replace the earlier editions, but to update and expand upon them, reflecting a broader geographic, chronological and multidisciplinary scope. Also, this online version is as yet incomplete, with new articles and sections being added as they are completed.

Contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature (ca. 240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It covers all the works from the classical period, the most important patristic works and a very extensive corpus of medieval Latin literature. The complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux, and Thomas à Kempis can thus be consulted. Full description.

Offers more than 42,000 abstracts in English from over 650 journals and more than 15,690 book summaries. Over 800 book summaries are added each year. Coverage begins in the early 1980s.

Indexes and abstracts over 450 journals in the areas of Old Testament studies, archaeology, theology, biblical linguistics, and history of the Middle East. Covers 1978 to the present. Journals indexed are multilingual with abstracts in English.

This resource brings together several encyclopedias, dictionaries, concordances and other reference sources along with over 3,000 scholarly articles and book chapters, hundreds of source documents and maps and links to other authoritative Web sites to provide thorough coverage of current and historical Islam.

The Institute conducts research on economic, social, and political issues in California. Because of its strengths in ethnic studies and immigration, this site is especially useful for the Local Religion Project.

Provides summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of religion and theology, including Christian, Jewish, and other World religions. Provides English language abstracts of articles in English, Hebrew, Afrikaans, and major European languages. Coverage: 1950 to present.