Religion Research Guide

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Biographical Information
Books: other Catalogs
Citation and Style Guides
Comprehensive Reference
Encyclopedias
Handbooks and Guides
Images
Journals/Magazines
Lectures & Speeches
Maps
Multiple E-Reference Collections
Newspapers
Newspapers of the Period
Religions - Islam
Religions - Judaism
Statistics/Data
Web Sites

Journals/Magazines

ATLA Religion Database Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article
Designed to support religious and theological research. It includes book titles and a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews. 1949-present.

Academic OneFile Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article Some full text available
1980 - current. Interdisciplinary index covering over 10,000 scholarly and popular journals and magazines. Most references include full-text or links to full-text. Contains all of Expanded Academic Index ASAP. Coverage of scientific journals is limited.  Shortcuts:  go/onefile (on campus),  http://go.middlebury.edu/onefile (off-campus).

JSTOR Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article Some full text available
Full-text archive of over 1000 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. For off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. Shortcuts: go/jstor (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/jstor (off campus). All Middlebury alumni can access our JSTOR archived journals, dating up to five years ago. To access JSTOR for Middlebury alumni visit http://go.middlebury.edu/jstoralum.

Index Islamicus Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article Some full text available
Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level. 1906 - present.

Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only
Indexes mainly western language publications on all parts of Asia and all subjects. 1971 - present online. 1941 - 1970 available in print.  Davis Family Library Reference DS5 .A1

Project Muse Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article Some full text available
Offers full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics from the 1990s to present. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted.  Shortcuts: go/muse (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/muse (off-campus).

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only
Comprehensive bibliography of scholarly materials pertaining to the study of European and other cultures between A.D. 400 and 1700.  Currently indexes articles, books, and reviews.

Philosopher's Index Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article
1940 - present. Includes journal articles, books, book chapters such as contributions to anthologies, and book reviews. The Philosopher's Index monitors over 550 journals from more than 40 countries and is updated quarterly.

Google Scholar Unrestricted Resource Link to Article
Searches for many types of primarily scholarly sources including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other organizations. Some documents will be available for free while others require a subscription or a one-time access fee.

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  • To prompt Google Scholar to display links to resources in Middlebury's collection: 1) Go to "Scholar Preferences" (click on the cogwheel in the upper-right), 2) Search "Library Links" for "Middlebury," 3) Select all displayed Middlebury locations, and 4) "Save Preferences."

Newspapers

alt.muslim Unrestricted Resource
Progressive Muslim news site

Books: other Catalogs

NExpress Unrestricted Resource
Use the  button in Midcat to search for and request items from a consortia of 6 other northeastern libraries, Middlebury borrowers can also visit these libraries and check out items directly. These libraries are: Williams, Bates, Bowdoin, Wellesley, Colby, and Northeastern University.  See the NExpress page for full details.

WorldCat Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article
Use this union catalog of over 40 million books, documents, reports, and media from libraries worldwide to identify books to request via InterLibrary Loan. If we don't own the book and you want to borrow it from another library, click on the ILL icon from the record. (OCLC)

LibWeb: Library Servers via WWW Unrestricted Resource
If you want to search a particular Library's online catalog, use LibWeb to find the link.

CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available Resource contains images
A selection of full-text books, conference reports, and working papers on international affairs.

Henry Sheldon Museum Catalog Unrestricted Resource
Search  books, archival and manuscript documents related to Middlebury and Addison County history in the Museum's Research Center.

Multiple E-Reference Collections

Religion and Philosophy Collection Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
Articles from popular and general interest magazines and journals. A Gale InfoTrac database.

Web Sites

The Jewish History Resource Center Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
The Jewish History Resource Center is a project of the Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History. Over 6000 links to websites in more than 30 categories dealing with Jewish History were visited by our team and have been found to be of value to those interested in Jewish History.

Monastic Matrix Unrestricted Resource
A collaborative scholarly effort that documents women's religious communities in medieval Europe. It is arranged in several sections, the largest being the Monasticon, a database of about 3,200 establishments that can be explored by place; name; saint, person, or idea to which they were dedicated; or by time period.

New Religious Movements Gateway Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Gateway page to a variety of other religious movement sites.  Compiled by Librarian Mike Madin, Academic Info site.

Biographical Information

American National Biography Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available Resource contains images
Oxford ANB Online is an exploration of American history through the lives of the men and women who shaped the nation.

Biography in Context Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article Some full text available Resource contains images
600,000+ biographies covering more than 525,000 individuals.  Includes 170+ Gale reference titles, periodical information and multimedia content.

Dictionary of National Biography Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available Resource contains images
Oxford DNB - 56,000 biographies of deceased people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the present. Also available in print- Main Library Reference CT773 .D4 2004.
Note: Oxford

Citation and Style Guides

RefWorks On-campus use only Link to Article
RefWorks will automatically generate bibliographies and format your research papers in any of hundreds of styles including MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian. For more information, see the Middlebury-specific RefWorks Guide located at  http://go.middlebury.edu/refworks?midd.

Is it Protected by Copyright? Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
Copyright information.  American Library Association slide rule tool providing easy links to descriptions of public domain status for works published from before 1923 to the present.

Encyclopedias

CultureVision (Proquest) Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
Religion and Ethnicity database.

Encyclopaedia Judaica Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
Provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures.
Print versions

Encyclopedia Britannica Online Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available Resource contains images
Academic edition. Search by subject or keyword.  In addition to topical essays, timelines, images, and videos, it provides links to full text journal articles and links to related websites.

Encyclopedia of Religion Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
Also in print at Main Library Ref BL31 E46 1986

Encyclopedia of Science and Religion Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available Resource contains images
Browse the index or search for a particular term or phrase.  Subject guides are provided for philosophical themes, world philosophies, periods, and world religions.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
Open access philosophy encyclopedia maintained and kept up to date by experts in the field.

Handbooks and Guides

Cambridge Histories Online Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
Online access to over 300 volumes published since 1960, over 196,000 pages and over 15 different academic subjects from ancient history, economic history, history of music, language and linguistics, theatre studies and performing arts, and religious studies.

Images

ARTStor Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available Resource contains images
ARTStor is a non-profit initiative with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. It is:

  • A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data; The tools to actively use those images; and
  • A restricted usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content users.

Chartres: Cathedral of Notre-Dame Unrestricted Resource Resource contains images
Religious architecture & ornament. A web site devoted to Chartres, with elevations, maps, diagrams, and illustrations of ornamental details, in addition to photographs.

NYPL Digital Gallery Unrestricted Resource
NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 600,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

Maps

Ancient Maps of Jerusalem Unrestricted Resource
The site contains maps of Jerusalem, and basic information concerning the map-makers and the history of cartography in Jerusalem. In the very near future we will index many of the maps and upload aerial photographs and modern maps and paintings of the city.

Newspapers of the Period

ProQuest Historical Newspapers Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available Resource contains images
Search the digitized full-text and images of the New York Times (1851-2007); Wall Street Journal (1889-1993); Los Angeles Times (1881-1987); Washington Post (1877-1994); Chicago Tribune (1849-1987); Boston Globe (1872-1979);  Christian Science Monitor (1908-1997); Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945).  Black Newspapers: Chicago Defender (1910-1975); Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003);  Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)

Statistics/Data

Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
A collection of maps, surveys, polls, and other data, providing demographic and religious membership information about the U.S. and other nations. Includes national (i.e. country) profiles.

Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Research, news, and public opinion polls covering four main areas as they relate to religion: politics, law, domestic policy, and world affairs.

UN Data (formerly UN Common Database) Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Search major UN statistical databases and those of several international organizations. Most data is annual. Covers a diverse range of topics including socio-economic, environmental, health, and more. See also additional UN Databases. Go shortcut = go/undata.  See the UN Monthly Bulletin of Statistics for updates and monthly data for some statistics.

Comprehensive Reference

Oxford Reference Online Premium Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available Resource contains images
General reference resources, including encyclopedias, bilingual dictionaries, chronologies, and maps and illustrations.

Lectures & Speeches

12 Byzantine Rulers Unrestricted Resource Resource contains images Resource contains audio
This history lecture podcast covers the little known Byzantine Empire through the study of twelve of its greatest rulers. Mr. Lars Brownworth presents this series for free through this website and the podcast section of the iTunes store.
Note: Also available at the iTunes store.

Middlebury Digital Lecture Archive Unrestricted Resource Resource contains video Resource contains audio
Collection of university and topical lecture archives; includes both audio and video.

Religions - Islam

alt.muslim Unrestricted Resource
Progressive Muslim news site

Compendium of Muslim Texts Unrestricted Resource
Search the  Qur'an and Hadith.

Index Islamicus Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article Some full text available
Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level. 1906 - present.

Internet Islamic History Sourcebook Unrestricted Resource
Comprehensive site from Fordham University.  Sources from historic, geographic, and theological perspectives.

Islam Links from Hofstra University Unrestricted Resource
Links for art and architecture, history, sects & regions, issues, and media.

Islam Resources (Saudi) Unrestricted Resource
Saudi (Wahhabi) site run by the Ministry of Islamic Affairs

Religions - Judaism

Encyclopaedia Judaica Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
Provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures.
Print versions

RAMBI: the index of articles on Jewish studies Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
RAMBI - The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies -  a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies. Material listed in Rambi is compiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of articles - in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages.



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