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Databases
Try these for historical and biographical research.
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ATLA Religion Database This link opens in a new windowThe American Theological Library Association gives you access to more than 1,600 religion and theology journals, many of them full-text. During your search, be sure to use the subject list in the left-hand column if you want to narrow your results.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowFull-text articles on most academic topics, often spanning the entire run of academic journals.
Books
Books about religious history.
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A Companion to American Religious History
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ISBN: 9781119583684Publication Date: 2021-01-26The Blackwell Companion to American Religious History explores the key events, significant themes, and important movements in various religious traditions throughout the nation's history from pre-colonization to the present day. Original essays written by leading scholars and new voices in the field discuss how religion in America has transformed over the years, explore its many expressions and meanings, and consider religion's central role in American life. -
The Routledge Handbook of Religious Literacy, Pluralism, and Global Engagement
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ISBN: 9781000509328Publication Date: 2021-12-27This pioneering handbook proposes an approach to pluralism that is relational, principled, and non-relativistic, going beyond banal calls for mere "tolerance." The growing religious diversity within societies around the world presents both challenges and opportunities. A degree of competition between deeply held religious/worldview perspectives is natural and inevitable, yet at the same time the world urgently needs engagement and partnership across lines of difference. -
Understanding Judaism
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ISBN: 9781532154102Publication Date: 2018-08-01Understanding Judaism covers the history of Judaism and explores how the religion has evolved and expanded. Readers learn about the branches of Judaism, Jewish beliefs, and the influence Jews have had on the world. This title also discusses anti-Semitism Jews have faced, both today and during history. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. -
The faiths of others : a history of interreligious dialogue
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ISBN: 9780300258561Publication Date: 2021The first intellectual history of interreligious dialogue, a relatively new and significant dimension of human religiosity. In recent decades, organizations committed to interreligious or interfaith dialogue have proliferated, both in the Western and non-Western worlds. Why? How so? And what exactly is interreligious dialogue? These are the touchstone questions of this book, the first major history of interreligious dialogue in the modern age. -
Claiming and Making Muslim Worlds
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ISBN: 9783110726534Publication Date: 2021-07-05To what extent can Islam be localized in an increasingly interconnected world? The contributions to this volume investigate different facets of Muslim lives in the context of increasingly dense transregional connections, highlighting how the circulation of ideas about 'Muslimness' contributed to the shaping of specific ideas about what constitutes Islam and its role in society and politics. Infrastructural changes have prompted the intensification of scholarly and trade networks, prompted the circulation of new literary genres or shaped stereotypical images of Muslims. This, in turn, had consequences in widely differing fields such as self-representation and governance of Muslims. -
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Christianity
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ISBN: 9781118554395Publication Date: 2016-03-24The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Christianity presents a collection of essays that explore a range of topics relating to the rise, spread, and influence of Christianity throughout the world. Features contributions from renowned scholars of history and religion from around the world Addresses the origins and global expansion of Christianity over the course of two millennia Covers a wide range of themes relating to Christianity, including women, worship, sacraments, music, visual arts, architecture, and many more.
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Web Resources
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Project Wittenberg: Selected Works of Martin LutherThe beginning of "an international electronic library of Lutheranism," this database from the Concordia Theological Seminary (Fort Wayne, Ind.) aims to do for Lutheranism what Project Gutenberg does for literature. You can read, for example, Luther's 95 Theses in the original Latin and in English, as well as in Turkish and Dutch.