General Religious Studies
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General Religious Studies
Databases (Find Articles and Reports)
Includes titles such as Society for the Study of Chinese Religions Bulletin and Journal of Chinese Religions.
Brill is an academic publisher with specialties in humanities and social sciences. A green icon next to a title will indicate full text access.
Get biographical information about religious figures. Includes the latest full text newspaper, journal articles, pictures, and multimedia files.
Includes the database: Religion and the Law. This trial ends on 3/14/2018. If you find this collection or any individual databases useful, please let us know.
Contains articles from journals such as The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, the Journal of Religion, and History of Religions. Non-UWest users can access certain articles in the Register and Read program.
"PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers."
A preprint server hosting unpublished articles on the philosophy of science. Preprint articles are made available online to receive feedback before submission to journals.
This database provides a wide range of primarily full-text, international periodicals for diverse religious and spiritual studies, covering formal theological studies of major religions, as well as the most recent trends and scholarly thought. Included are titles from religious publishing bodies and nondenominational organizations. The resource reflects a wide spectrum of religious belief systems and supports the global study of religion.
Indexes more than 2,500 magazine and journals on art, business, humanities, health, social sciences, and sciences. Interfaces available for many languages. Includes Research Library, ProQuest Religion, ProQuest Psychology Journals, and Dissertation/Thesis Abstracts.
Reference (Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Bibliographies)
"...the world’s first comprehensive online quantitative and qualitative encyclopedia of religious cultural history." Select the 'browse' link to begin your search.
This is the online version of the second edition of this highly regarded encyclopedia (physical version also available: http://uwest.worldcat.org/oclc/56057973). Comes with searchable full text entries, with information intended to reflect both changes in academia and in the world since 1987. Includes almost all of the 2,750 original entries -- many heavily updated -- as well as approximately 600 entirely new articles.
A scholarly and refereed encyclopedia hosted by Stanford University.
