Religious Studies: Research Databases

This database functions as an index to the research literature of religion, including Biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues. It indexes scholarly journals, books, edited volumes worldwide, and book reviews related to religion and theology, representing a wide selection of Christian traditions (including Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Evangelical, and Pentecostal), Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shinto, Taoism, Confucianism, and other religious traditions.

An electronic version of the complete printed text of Acta Sanctorum, from the edition published in sixty-eight volumes by the Société des Bollandistes in Antwerp and Brussels. It is a collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organized according to each saint's feast day, and runs from the two January volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940. It contains the entire Acta Sanctorum, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indices; Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina reference numbers and references for scholars are also included.

The BTL Online database provides electronic access to all editions of Latin texts published in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana, ranging from antiquity and late antiquity to medieval and neo-Latin texts.

Transcriptions and facsimiles of documents, including papal and synodal decrees, catechisms and inquisitorial manuals, biblical commentaries, theological treatises and systems, liturgical writings, saints' lives, and devotional works by Catholic authors of the 16th and 17th centuries.

A range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras for those studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries.

A useful index of scholarship for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. It indexes academic literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Records included in the index cover almost 100 years of publications on the world of Islam, and journals, conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews are monitored for inclusion in the database.

An index on Jewish history, activity and thought. This database provides a guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in journals devoted to Jewish affairs.

An index of research, policy and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. Includes coverage on political affairs & law, cultural heritage, ethnic diversity & anthropology, significant religious events & movements and recent history & archaeology.

An electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. The Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. The database contains the complete Patrologia Latina, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes. Migne's column numbers, essential references for scholars, are included.

A comprehensive dictionary of ancient Latin containing lemmata from a to relinquo. It is compiled on the basis of all Latin texts surviving from antiquity (until AD 600), both literary and non-literary. It records all meanings (including technical usages) and all constructions, documents peculiarities of inflection, spelling, and prosody, and addresses etymology.

Contains detailed statistics on religious affiliation for every country of the world. It provides source material, including censuses and surveys, as well as best estimates for every religion to offer a definitive picture of international religious demography.

Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and the Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK combines worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, and commentaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.

The texts included in this database range from early German writing to the works of major authors of the nineteenth century, including historical, philosophical, theological, political and art history texts. Collections of essays, speeches and other non-literary material add context and background.

GenderWatch contains archival material dating back to 1970. This database includes journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings and governmental NGO and special reports devoted to women's and gender issues.

Provides bibliographical coverage of the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada), including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more.

Provides access to scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. In addition to journal articles, users can access book chapters, ebooks, and primary source documents.

Index to journal articles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences including some published as far back as 1770. Includes periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages. Includes Journals such as Journal of Religion, Japanese Journal of Religious Stuidies, and Archivum historicum Societatis Iesu (Jesuit Journal with articles in several languages).