World Religions
Research Guide
Reference Works
| Library Catalogs | Indexes
| Internet Sites | Writing
Aids
Reference
Works
Specialized reference works like the ones listed
below are very useful for research. Specialized encyclopedias
can provide useful overviews or convenient explanations. Specialized
dictionaries give a more precise defination of terms as they are
used by a particular field of study. Concordances can help you
locate exactly where particular words appear in sacred texts.
All of the titles here are located on the first floor of the Library.
Browse around the same areas to find other useful titles.
- Anchor Bible Dictionary
BS 440 .A54 1992
- Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean:
Greece and Rome
Reference DE 59 .C55 1988
- Civilizations of the Ancient Near East
Reference DS 57 .C55 1995
- Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion
- Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
- Concise
Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
- Concordance of the Quran
Reference BP 133 .K37 1983
- Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Mythology
Reference BL 1060 .L44 1991
- Dictionary of Buddhism
- Dictionary of the Bible
- Encyclopaedia Judaica
Reference DS 102.8 .E496 1996
- Encyclopedia of Afterlife Beliefs and Phenomena
Reference BF 1311 .F8 L48 1994
- Encyclopedia of Creation Myths
Reference BL 325 .C7 L44 1994
- Encyclopedia of Islam
Reference DS 37 .E523
- Encyclopaedia of Middle Eastern Mythology
and Religion
Reference BL 1060 .K58 1993
- Encyclopedia of Mormonism
Reference BX 8605.5 .E62 1992
- Encyclopaedia of the Quran
Reference BP 133 .E53 2001
- Encyclopedia of Religion
Reference BL 31 .E46 1987
- Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
Reference BL 31 .E62 1955
- Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft
Reference BF 1566 .G85 1999
- Guide to the Gods
Reference BL 473 .L43 1992
- Jewish
Encyclopedia (1901-1906)
- New Catholic Encyclopedia
Reference BX 841 .N44
- The NRSV Concordance Unabridged
Reference BS 425 .K645 1991
- Oxford Companion to the Bible
- Oxford Dictionary of Islam
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the
Near East
Reference DS 56 .O9 1997
- Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible
- Reader's Guide to Judaism
Reference BM 50 .R43 2000
Library
Catalogs
Use the catalogs below to locate print and audio-visual
materials.
Indexes
Although the College of DuPage
Library has no print or online indexes specifically for religion,
many of these general sources cover the topic well. In many cases,
the databases will have the full text article available online.
If you are using these databases from off-campus, please be sure
to have your library
card available.
- Online Indexes
- Academic Search Premier
(1984-present)
Indexes over 3,000 journals and magazines.
- eHRAF
Collection of Ethnography
Full text materials on aspects of culture, including religion.
See also the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) below.
- Essay
and General Literature Index (1985-present)
Indexes chapters or essays in books.
- Expanded
Academic Index (1980-present)
Indexes over 2500 journals and magazines.
- JSTOR
JSTOR is an archive of digitized journal articles ranging in date from the 1700's to the early 2000's. These collections span a variety of subjects in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Physical Sciences.
- Newspapers
(1980s-present)
Full text of the Washington Post, Wall Street
Journal, and the New York Times (last 90 days
only).
- Print Indexes
- Human Relations Area Files (HRAF)
This is a collection of ethnographies, primarily books,
which provide mostly historical, but some contemporary information
on people in over 350 cultural groups. Indexes are located
near the Reference Desk; the collection itself is on microfiche.
Internet
Sites
Writing
Aids
Abstracts
You may be asked to write abstracts for the sources
you use in your research. The Purdue University Online Writing
Lab (OWL) has an information sheet available on Writing
Report Abstracts
Citing Sources
The MLA format (Modern Language Association) is commonly
used to create bibliographies or works cited pages. The sources
below may help you.
General Guides
Marianne Berger, Reference Librarian
630.942.2338
berger@cdnet.cod.edu
18 August 2003
