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Below are suggested resources to use when researching a Philosophy topic. For research strategies and techniques, visit the resources linked from the menu at the left.

Getting Started | Finding Articles | Getting Fulltext

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Getting Started

Before jumping in and looking for research, it is a good idea to have a refined topic and to know a little about it. Start with broad resources like encyclopedias, bibliographies, and handbooks to start to get a sense of what is available on your topic in the universe of information.

Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions
Ref BL31 .A24 

Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
via Oxford Reference Online
Abridged from the acclaimed Oxford Dictionary of World Religions, this Concise version is written by an expert team of 80 international and multi-faith contributors. It contains entries on all the major and many minor religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Shinto, Sikhism, and Taoism. Over 500 entries cover movements, sects, and cults, from Cargo Cults and the New Age movement to Rastafarians and Soka Gakkai. Over 1,000 entries explore the sacred writings of religions worldwide, and short biographies of founders, leaders, gurus, philosophers, mystics, and heretics are given. There are details of sacred sites, customs, religious practices, dogmas, beliefs, traditions, festivals and fasts, and artefacts such as altars, rosaries, icons, and torah ornaments. There are also entries on worldwide religious teachings on abortion, animals, birth control, war, homosexuality, and suicide.

Continuum Dictionary of Religion
Ref BL31 .C67 1994

Dictionary of Comparative Religion
Ref BL31 .D54 1970

Dictionary of Religion and Ethics
Ref BL31 .M3  

Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
Ref BL31 .E4 

Encyclopedia of Religion
Ref BL31 .E46 1986

Encyclopedia of Religious and Spiritual Development
BV4571.3 .E53 2006 

Encyclopedia of Religious Freedom
Ref BV741 .E47 2003 

Encyclopedia of World Faiths: an Illustrated Survey of the World's Living Religions
Ref BL80.2 .E495 1988

Longman Guide to Living Religions
Ref BL80.2 .L66 1994

New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
Ref BR95 .S435
and
Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
Ref BR95 .S435s

Religion: a Cross-cultural Encyclopedia
Ref BL80.2 .L463 1996 

What is religion?
Via ebrary

Finding Articles

Search the following indexes to find articles on the topic of Philosophy. See individual Resources by Subject guides for more specific indexes covering topics within the broader field of Philosophy.

  • Academic Search Complete
    An enormous periodical database covering the academic areas of ethnic and cultural studies, social sciences, humanities, education, language and linguistics, arts and literature, etc. Over 4,000 fulltext titles are included and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Useful for finding articles and interviews by and about important figures, book reviews, and critical essays. 
  • Expanded Academic ASAP
    From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers - with full text and images! Coverage: 1980-present
  • Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    REP Online is the online version of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Originally published in print in June 1998, the online versions is updated every January, April, July and October REP Online features over 2000 original articles from over 1300 leading international experts across the discipline of philosophy. The articles cover an unparalleled breadth of subject matter, including Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy. With a summary providing a rapid orientation at the beginning of every in-depth article, the Encyclopedia is specially designed to meet the needs of all levels of users. The online format makes the Encyclopedia easy to use and highly searchable. It gives you a wealth of data at your fingertips, with: 25,000 hot-linked cross-references between articles; editorially defined links to other philosophy resources; a comprehensive conceptual organisation of key terms, themes and names; and articles organised by theme, philosophical traditions by region, religious traditions, and period.
  • Humanities Index
    An index of articles in the humanities as well as full-text of articles.  Indexes and abstracts more than 300 key humanities publications, including feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays, operas, ballets, dance, musicals, movies, and television and radio programs. 
  • JSTOR
    Primarily covers back-runs of scholarly journals. Full-text access to nearly 600 core scholarly journals covering 44 specialized subject areas. Coverage is spread out over the last 150 years but there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR. In Advanced search, select these discipline groups: African American Studies - 8 journals, African Studies - 10 journals.

Getting Fulltext

Because not all indexes are fulltext--or 100% fulltext--you may have to elsewhere to find an article for which you have a citation. Consult the resources below to find out how to get access to the articles you need.

Finding information on Specific Research Topics

For more information on more specific topics within the discipline of Philosophy, contact a librarian.

African and African-American Religion

African American Religious Experience in America
Ref BL625.2 .P56 2005

Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religions
Ref BL2462.5 .E53 2001  

Bible

Analytical Concordance to the Revised Standard Version of the New Testament
Ref BS425 .M67

Anchor Bible Dictionary
Ref BS440 .A54 1992

Biblical World
Via ebrary

Cambridge History of the Bible
Ref BS445 .C26

Dictionary of the Bible
Ref BS440 .H5 1963

Dictionary of the Bible
via Oxford Reference Online

Encyclopedia of Bible Life
Ref BS440 .M5 1955

Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible
Ref BS425 .S8

Facts on File Dictionary of C lassical and Biblical Allusions
Ref PN43 .F16 2003

Handbook of Biblical Chronology; Principles of Time Reckoning in the Ancient World and Problems of Chronology in the Bible
Ref BS637.2 .F5

Holy Bible, King James Version
Ref BS185 1974 .N44  

Holy Bible, New Revised Standard Edition
Ref BS191.5.A1 1989 .N49

Interdisciplinary Atlas of the Bible : Scripture, History, Geography, Archaeology, and Theology
Ref G2230 .P4413 1999

Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible
Ref BS440 .I63

Interpreter's One Volume Commentary on the Bible
Ref BS491.2 .I57

Nelson's Complete Concordance of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible
Ref BS425 .E4

New English Bible with the Apocrypha
Ref BS192.A1 1970 .L6

Oxford Companion to the Bible
Ref BS440 .M434 1993 and
via Oxford Reference Online

Oxford Guide to People and Places in the Bible
via Oxford Reference Online

Riverside Parallel Bible
Ref BS188.A3 R5

Short Dictionary of Bible Personal Names
Ref BS570 .R63

Torah
Ref BS1223 1963

Who's Who in the Bible
Ref BS571 .C54 1981

Buddhism

Dictionary of Buddhism
Ref BQ130 .D5

Dictionary of Buddhism
via Oxford Reference Online

Catholicism

Catholic Dictionary (The Catholic Encyclopædic Dictionary)
Ref BX841 .C35 1958 

New Catholic Encyclopedia
BX841 .N44 2003

Christianity

Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
via Oxford Reference Online

Oxford Dictionary of the Popes
via Oxford Reference Online
This acclaimed papal Who's Who presents biographical accounts in chronological order of all the officially recognized popes from St Peter to Pope Benedict XVI. This edition has a new expanded entry on John Paul II. Providing a continuous history of the papacy, it also includes all the irregularly elected ‘antipopes’ and discusses the tradition that there had been a female pope. A fascinating read for students of theology and history, as well as the general reader with an interest in Christian history.

Oxford Dictionary of the Saints
via Oxford Reference Online
From the famous to the obscure, this book provides concise accounts of the lives, cults, relationships through patronage, and artistic associations of more than a thousand saints, including entries on the Martyrs of Korea, Mexico, and Vietnam, as well as the recently canonized such as Edith Stein, Padro Pio, and Josémaria Escriva.

Islam and Muslim Culture

Atlas of the Islamic World Since 1500
Ref DS35.6 .R6 1982

Dictionary of Islam: Being a Cyclopaedia of the Doctrines, Rites, Ceremonies, and Customs, Together with the Technical and Theological terms, of the Muhammadan Religion
Ref BP40 .H8 1995 

Historical Atlas of Islam
Ref G1786.S1 H6 2002

Historical Dictionary of Islamic Fundamentalist Movements in the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey
Ref BP60 .M36 1999

Muslim Almanac: A Reference Work on the History, Faith, Culture, and Peoples of Islam
Ref BP40 .M83 1996

Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey
Ref DS35.625.A1 M87

New Encyclopedia of Islam
Ref BP40 .G42 2001

Oxford Dictionary of Islam
via Oxford Reference Online

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
Ref DS35.53 .O95 1995

Popular Dictionary of Islam
Ref BP40 .N48 1992

Judaism and Jewish Culture

Blackwell Companion to Jewish Culture : From the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Ref DS102.8 .B46 1989 

Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion
via Oxford Reference Online

Encyclopaedia Judaica
Ref DS102.8 .E496 2007

Encyclopedia of the Holocaust
Ref D804.3 .E53 1990

History of the Holocaust: a Handbook and Dictionary
Ref D804.3 .E33 1994

Jewish-American History and Culture: an Encyclopedia
E184.J5 J48 1992

Jewish Literacy: the Most Important Things to Know about the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History
Ref BM155.2 .T44 1991

Jewish Religion: a Companion
Ref BM50 .J28 1995

Jewish Women in America: an Historical Encyclopedia
Ref DS115.2 .J49 1997

Jews in America, 1621-1970
Ref E184.J5 S57

Judaica Reference Sources: a Selective, Annotated Bibliographic Guide
DS102 .C87 2004 

New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
Ref DS102.8 .S73 1992 

Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion
Ref BM50 .O94 1997 

Timetables of Jewish History : A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History
Ref DS114 .G68 1993

Where Once We Walked : a Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust
Ref DS135.E83 M65 1991  

Mythology

Ancient Astronomy: An Encyclopedia of Cosmologies and Myth
Ref QB16 .R84 2005  

Bulfinch's Mythology
Ref BL310 .B82 1947

Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit : Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Lore
Ref BL795.H6 C65 1997

Concise Dictionary of Classical Mythology
Ref BL715 .G713 1990

Crowell's Handbook of Classical Mythology
Ref BL303 .T75

Dictionary of Mythology, Folklore and Symbols
Ref GR35 .J6

Dictionary of Native American Mythology
Ref E98.R3 G46 1992  

Dictionary of Non-classical Mythology
Ref BL303 .E25 1937

Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend
Ref GR35 .F82 1984  

Goddesses in World Mythology
BL473.5 .A66 1993

Index to Fairy tales, Myths, and Legends
Ref GR74.6 .E2 1926

Larousse World Mythology
Ref BL311 .G683  

Mythologies
Ref BL311 .D513 1991 

Mythology of All Races
Ref BL25 .M8  

New Book of Goddesses & Heroines
Ref BL473.5 .M66 1997

World Mythology
BL311 .W66 1993

Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary
Ref BL715 .B445 1991

Religious Biography

Dictionary of American Religious Biography
Ref BL72 .B68 

Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft
Ref  BF1566 .G85 1999

Oxford Dictionary of the Popes
via Oxford Reference Online
This acclaimed papal Who's Who presents biographical accounts in chronological order of all the officially recognized popes from St Peter to Pope Benedict XVI. This edition has a new expanded entry on John Paul II. Providing a continuous history of the papacy, it also includes all the irregularly elected ‘antipopes’ and discusses the tradition that there had been a female pope. A fascinating read for students of theology and history, as well as the general reader with an interest in Christian history.

Who's Who in the Bible
Ref BS571 .C54 1981

Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary
Ref BL715 .B445 1991

Religion in America

African American Religious Experience in America
Ref BL625.2 .P56 2005

Contemporary American Religion
Ref BL2525 .C65 2000

Dictionary of Native American Mythology
Ref E98.R3 G46 1992

Encyclopedia of American Religions
Ref BL2525 .M44 1999

Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience: Studies of Traditions and Movements
Ref BL2525 .E53 1988

Encyclopedia of American Religious History
Ref BL2525 .Q44 1996

Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America
Ref BL2525 .M45 1992 

Jewish-American History and Culture: an Encyclopedia
E184.J5 J48 1992

Jewish Women in America: an Historical Encyclopedia
Ref DS115.2 .J49 1997

Jews in America, 1621-1970
Ref E184.J5 S57

New Historical Atlas of Religion in America
Ref G1201.E4 N4 2001 

Women in Religion

Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion
Ref BL458 .E53 1999

Goddesses in World Mythology
BL473.5 .A66 1993

Jewish Women in America: an Historical Encyclopedia
Ref DS115.2 .J49 1997

New Book of Goddesses & Heroines
Ref BL473.5 .M66 1997

Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary
Ref BL715 .B445 1991

Witchcraft and Wicca

Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft
Ref  BF1566 .G85 1999

Witchcraft Sourcebook
Via NetLibrary

 

 

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