Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost)
Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary, full text database. It contains full text for over 3,460 scholarly publications and includes full-page images as well as color embedded images. 1975-present. CU

 

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
Collection of major religious and theology journals selected by religion scholars in the United States. Full text journals representing all major religious faiths, denominations and language groups are included. As with the ATLA Religion Database, coverage dates back to 1949. CU

 

Bibliography of Asian Studies
The online Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) references western-language monographs, articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia. 1971-present. CU

 

Brill Dictionary of Religion

A revised ed. of the Metzler Lexikon Religion published 1999-2002. Contains over 500 signed articles with bibliographies, cross references, maps, and illustrations. The articles are organized under the following six thematic fields: the human being; the individual & the group; environment, society, & culture; elements of religious systems; history of religions; and geography & territoriality of religion. Also includes entries on critical terms for the study of religion. The articles within the thematic fields explain the basic elements of religion, present overviews of important religious & philosophical traditions, discuss themes of public interest in contemporary societies, treat important representatives of religious traditions & influential figures in the study of religion, discuss religion in cultural and anthrop-geographical units, provide overviews of historical periods, and give brief information on certain historical phenomena and terms. CU

 

Brill Online

Brill Online includes reference titles in Religion and Classics, including Jacoby and Pauly as well as Index Islamicus. CU

 

Encyclopaedia of Islam

The Encyclopaedia of Islam sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World from religion and history to politics and culture. It embraces articles on distinguished Muslims of every age and land, on tribes and dynasties, on the crafts and sciences, on political and religious institutions, on the geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of the various countries and on the history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities. Its geographical and historical scope encompasses the old Arabo-Islamic empire, the Islamic countries of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia, the Ottoman Empire and all modern Islamic states. CU

 

Encyclopaedia of Judaism

The Encyclopaedia of Judaism presents the authoritative consensus of the present age of learning in the humanities and social sciences upon fundamental issues of Judaism. CU

 

Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an

Drawing upon a rich scholarly heritage, Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an  (EQ) combines alphabetically-arranged articles about the contents of the Qur'an. It is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur'anic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur'anic studies. With nearly 1000 entries in 5 volumes, the EQ is the first comprehensive, multi-volume reference work on the Qur'an to appear in a Western language. CU

 

Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures

The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC) is an interdisciplinary, transhistorical, and global project. It brings together upwards of 1,000 scholars to write critical essays on women, Muslim and non-Muslim, and Islamic cultures in every region where there have been significant Muslim populations. It aims to cover every topic for which there is significant research, examining these regions from the period just before the rise of Islam to the present. EWIC hopes both to offer the state of the art in the broad sweep of topics to inform the general audience and to take on cutting-edge issues to stimulate new research in new terrains. CU

 

Humanities Abstracts/Full Text
Abstracts and some full text covering diverse subject areas of the humanities.
Coverage: Abstracts from 1985 to the present; full text from 1995 to the present. CU

 

Index Islamicus
This database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by an editorial team working at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, established to transmit knowledge about Islamic and Middle East studies, which have traditionally been part of the curriculum of SOAS. Records included in the database cover almost 100 years of publications on the world of Islam. CU

 

Periodicals Index Online
PCI is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. Journals are covered from their first issues (as early as 1790) to 1995. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other languages. CU

 

Philosopher's Index
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language. CU

 

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Features over 2000 original articles from over 1300 leading international experts across the discipline of philosophy. CU

 

UCB Libraries Subject Guide for Religious Studies