Online through Gale Virtual Reference
Is considered a standard reference in the field. Offers a cross-cultural approach emphasizing religion's role within everyday life.
Call Number: Available at Cambridge Companions Online
ISBN: 0521485932
Online
This series offers specially-commissioned collections of essays intended to serve as reference works for students and non-specialists. Searchable database.
Online through Gale Virtual Reference
"Covers the significant religious denominations and movements that have originated or flourished in North America, from the beginning of European settlement to the present day."
REF BL 80.3 E53 2004
Provides historical and cultural information necessary for understanding concepts of war and political violence in the major religions of the world. Includes scriptural, doctrinal, and state views. Each article is signed and contains a bibliography.
REF BL 2462.5 .E53 2001
An up-to-date guide to religions of African and African-American people with special attention given to movements in Africa and the religions of the African Diaspora in North America, South America, Central America, and the Caribbean.
Online through Gale Virtual Reference
This title contains the complete text of the 16 print volumes plus yearbooks. Includes photos, images, and maps. A comprehensive source on the Jewish world. Online.
REF BR162.2 .E53 1990
Almost 1,000 entries covering the time period from the life of Jesus to 600 AD. Includes discussion of people, places, doctrines, practice, art, liturgy, heresies, and schisms.
Online
A comprehensive, six-volume set which covers all aspects of this religion and the areas it affects: society, politics, economics, everyday life, culture, and thought.
REF BL715 .O845 2003
This title is drawn from The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd (1996). It covers Greek and Roman myth and religion, as well as regional religions of the Graeco-Roman world plus entries on Judaism and Christianity in the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
REF BX955.2 .K45 1986 (print)
Concise biographies of officially recognized popes, as well as those classified as antipopes. Each entry contains a bibliography.
REF BS895 .J4 2004
Includes the Torah, Nevi'im, and Kethuvim. Jewish scholars introduce each book and provide extensive commentary. In addition, the volume offers two dozen scholarly essays on interpretation.
REF BS440 .I63 4 vols. + supplement
Both a dictionary and an encyclopedia, this work covers terms, personalities, and concepts from the Bible. It also includes history and archaeology of the region.
REF BS425 .S8 1996
This is a thorough verbal index to the Bible as it exists in the partly Hebrew and partly Greek original text and the Authorized and Revised English Versions.