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Subject Guide: Religious Studies

Books

Selected Reference Books in McQuade Library (First Floor):

Dictionaries

  • The Dictionary of Bible and Religion (REF BR95 .D46)
  • Dictionary of Biblical Imagery (REF BS 537 .D48 1998)
  • A Dictionary of Buddhism (REF BQ130 .D5)
  • A Dictionary of Comparative Religion (REF BL31 .D54 1970)
  • Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period: 450 B.C.E. To 600 C.E. (REF BM50 .D525 1996)
  • Encyclopedic Dictionary of Religion (REF BR95 .E494)
  • The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (REF BM50 .O94 1997)
  • Dictionary of Christian Biography (REF B1700 2001)
  • A Dictionary of Christian Theology (REF BR95 .R47)
  • Dictionary of Christianity in America (REF BR515 .D53 1990)
  • A Dictionary of Comparative Religion (REF BL31 .D54 1970)
  • Dictionary of Qur'¯anic Terms and Concepts (REF BP133 .M57 1987)
  • Historical Dictionary of Islam (REF BP50 .A33 2001)
  • The Maryknoll Catholic Dictionary (REF BX841 .M36 1965)
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Popes (REF BX955.2 .K45)
  • The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (REF BR95 .O8 1997)
  • The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (REF BM50 .O94 1997)
  • The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Ethics (REF BJ1199 .W47)

Encyclopedias

  • Encyclopaedia Judaica (REF DS102.8 .E496)
  • The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History (REF BX1406.2 .E53 1997)
  • The Encyclopedia of American Religions (REF BL2525 .M449 1989)
  • Encyclopedia of American Women and Religion (REF BL 2525 .B45 1998)
  • The Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religions (REF BL2462.5 .E53 2001)
  • Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy (REF BX1753 .E595 2007)
  • Encyclopedia of Mormonism (REF BX 8605.5 .E62 1992)
  • Encyclopedia of Native American Religions: An Introduction (REF E98.R3 H73 2000)
  • The Encyclopedia of Religion (REF BL31 .E46 1987)
  • The Encyclopedia of the Jewish Religion (REF BM50 .W45)
  • Encyclopedia of the Vatican and Papacy (REF BX955.2 .E53 1999)
  • Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion (REF BL458 .E53 1999)
  • Jesus in history, thought, and culture: an encyclopedia (REF BR145.3 .H68 2003)
  • New Catholic Encyclopedia (REF BX841 .N44)
  • The Papacy: An Encyclopedia (REF BX955.2 .D53 2002)
  • World Christian Encyclopedia (REF BR157 .W67 2001)
  • Worldmark Encyclopedia or Religious Practices (REF BL80.3 .W67 2006)

Bibles

  • The Catholic Study Bible (REF BS192.3 1990 .N49)
  • The Holy Bible: 1611 Edition, King James Version (REF BS185 1993 .N3)
  • The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books: New Revised Standard Version (REF BS195.N4 1989 .H65)
  • The Holy Qur'ân: Arabic Text, English Translation (REF BP109 1997)
  • The Interpreter's Bible (REF BS491.2 .I55)
  • New American Bible (REF BS192.3.A1 N4)
  • The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books (REF BS191.5.A1 2001 .N49)
  • The Talmud (REF BM499.5 .E4 1989)
  • Tanakh: A New Translation of the Holy Scriptures According to the Traditional Hebrew Text (REF BS896.A1 P45 1985)

Concordances and Interpretive Materials

  • Complete Concordance of the New American Bible (REF BS425 .N36)
  • The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (REF BS425 .S8)
  • Harper's Bible Commentary (REF BS491.2 .H37 1988)
  • Harper's Bible Dictionary (REF BS440 .M527)
  • The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (REF BS440 .I63)
  • The Interpreter's One-Volume Commentary on the Bible (REF BS491.2 .I57 1971)
  • Jerome Biblical Commentary (REF BS491.2 .B7)
  • The NRSV Concordance Unabridged: Including the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books (REF BS425 .K645 1991)
  • Nelson's Complete Concordance of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible (REF BS425 .E4 1972)

Saints

  • The Book of Saints (REF BX4655 .B6)
  • Lives of the Saints (REF BX4659.G7 F37)
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (REF BX4659.G7 F37)
  • The Saints: A Concise Biographical Dictionary (REF BX4655 .S28)

Search the NOBLE Web Catalog for more print and electronic books owned by McQuade Library. Try these sample subject headings:

Religion Theology
Religion and culture Religion and ethics
Religion and sociology Religions
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Christianity and other religions
Catholic church Saints
Also try narrower terms such as Hinduism, Taoism, Judaism, etc. Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

To find additional related subject headings, scroll down to the bottom of the Web catalog record or consult the Library of Congress Subject Headings (a set of red reference books located near the Reference Desk in McQuade Library).

Articles

Selected print indexes (located in Reference Room) and periodicals:

  • Catholic Periodical and Literature Index [1956 -] (REF AI3 .C32)
  • Humanities Index [1975 -] (REF AI3 .H85)
  • New Testament Abstracts [1956 -] (REF BS 410 .N35)
  • Old Testament Abstracts [1978 -] (REF BS410 .O42)
  • Religion Index One: Periodicals [1981 -] (REF BL1 .R4)

Print and Electronic Journals

The library subscribes to more than 75 religion periodicals in print. These are located in the Periodicals Room on the second floor of the library. There are also many full-text electronic journals available in the library's online databases. For a complete list of the library's periodicals holdings in both formats, go to Journal Finder. Here, you can search by title or subject for all print and full-text electronic periodical holdings.

You can search for a particular periodical by title in the McQuade Library Catalog.

Selected electronic texts, journals, magazines, and newspapers on the Web:

Search these databases to find articles:

  • ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association.
  • Academic Search Premier provides full text for more than 4,500 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals, covering a wide variety of disciplines.
  • Catholic Periodical Literature Index is the product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Library Association. The database covers all aspects of the Catholic faith and lifestyle, and includes over 380,000 index citations of articles and reviews 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
  • Expanded Academic ASAP meets research needs across all academic disciplines from arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers. Contains abstracts and full-text.
  • JSTOR is a searchable digital archive containing back-issues of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. It contains complete runs of these scholarly journals, many of which date from the 1800s. Note: the most recent 3 to 5 years of a journal are not included in this archive.

  • Project MUSE provides 100% full-text, online access to over 300 humanities, arts and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. Every journal is heavily indexed and peer-reviewed.

Web Sites

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