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Contains articles from journals such as The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, the Journal of Religion, and History of Religions.

Search JSTOR for journal articles and book chapters on a sustainability topic.

Non-UWest users may go directly to: https://www.jstor.org/sustainability/

Digitized manuscripts from India.

This is a journal published by the International Association for the History of Religions.

Using previously gathered data, find projections and trends on religious futures through 2050.

"PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers."

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 all ProQuest databases: ABI/Inform Collection, ProQuest Research Library, ProQuest Religion, ProQuest Psychology Journals, ProQuest PsycTests, PsycARTICLES, and Dissertation/Thesis Abstracts.

A weekly TV news program delving into issues of religion and ethics.

Pew Research Center provides survey datasets and articles on the topic of religion and public life all around the world.

From the Pew Research Center, explore the demographics of U.S. religious groups. Survey results include stats on their beliefs, practices, and social & political views.

Contains Dharmaśāstra texts in original Sanskrit & Roman transcription and Bibliography of Hindu Law.

"Discover images from libraries, archives, and museums around the world."

A project of Harvard Law School, that aims to provide comprehensive content and context on Islamic law in a way that is accessible and useful.

"...an electronic database containing bibliographic references to South Asia research articles published in journals, collective volumes, conference proceedings, Festschriften, etc."

A companion website to the book.

A scholarly and refereed encyclopedia hosted by Stanford University.

"...a trans-national virtual 'home' for collecting, digitizing, and documenting various materials produced by South Asia’s exciting popular visual sphere including posters, calendar art, pilgrimage maps and paraphernalia, cinema hoardings, advertisements, and other forms of street and bazaar art."

"A digital repository providing legal documents, analyses, and teaching resources for teaching religion and law."

From the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

An academic guide to resources (publications, syllabi, statements) for the study of religion and ecology.

Over 30,000 images used for teaching Islamic art at the University of Oxford.

"The Pluralism Project is a two decade-long research project that engages students in studying the new religious diversity in the United States. We explore particularly the communities and religious traditions of Asia and the Middle East that have become woven into the religious fabric of the United States in the past twenty-five years."