Religion Resources

Books and Media

Earlham Libraries Catalog
Find books and other materials available in the Earlham Libraries.

WorldCat
The world's largest library catalog, covering books and other materials available in OCLC member libraries, primarily in the U.S.

Digital Quaker Collection
A digital library containing full text and page images of more than 500 Quaker works from the 17th and 18th centuries. Individual titles can also be found by searching the online catalog.

Early English Books Online
About 100,000 books published between 1475 and 1750. Individual titles can also be found by searching the online catalog.

netLibrary
Ebooks, both scholarly and general interest, from major publishers. NetLibrary books will also turn up in searches of the online catalog.

Articles

ATLA Religion Database
Indexes international periodicals, multi-author books, and reviews in religion. Includes fulltext of over 75 religion journals, and links to religion content in Academic Search Premier. To print fulltext, use buttons in frame to redisplay the article, then use the browser print functions.
A list of the fulltext journals in ATLAS.
Help with searches in ATLA.

Academic Search Premier
Extensive index to scholarly journals and general periodicals in all subject and interdisciplinary areas, including some full text.

JSTOR
Full text of hundreds of scholarly journals in all disciplines dating back to the 1700s, but usually lacking the last 3-5 years. They can be searched all together, in disciplinary subsets, or as individual titles.

Project MUSE
Full text of over hundreds of scholarly journals in the humanities dating back to the 1990s.

Others
The Earlham Libraries have access to other online fulltext journals. You can look for individual titles on these lists. You might also explore the resources listed in All Databases or other Resources by Subject pages.

Reference

Blackwell Reference Online: Religion
Complete text of 23 Blackwell reference works, providing general articles and essays on theology, world religions, philosophy of religions, Bible, and other topics.

Encyclopaedia Judaica
Online version of the 22-volume set, 2nd edition (Macmillan, 2007). Excellent coverage of Jewish religion and history.

Encyclopedia of Bioethics
Online version of the five volume, 3rd edition (Macmillan, 2004). Excellent coverage of bioethics, broadly defined.

Encyclopedia of Islam and the Modern World
Online version of the two-volume reference set from Macmillan (2004).

Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Online version of the ten volume, 2nd edition (Macmillan, 2006). An excellent starting point for research on topics related to philosophy.

Encyclopedia of Religion
Online version of the fifteen volume, 2nd edition (Macmillan, 2005). An outstanding scholarly work on almost any religious topic.

New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Online version of the six-volume reference set from Charles Scribner's (2004). Interdisciplinary discussion of concepts in culture, theory, and thought.

Oxford English Dictionary
Current, online version of famous dictionary.

Oxford Islamic Studies Online
Includes the text of several major reference works, Qur'anic studies resources, timelines, bibliographies, and more.

Oxford Reference Online: Religion and Philosophy
Searchable fulltext of 14 Oxford University Press reference titles in Bible, church history, world religions, and philosophy.

Reference Universe
A unique tool that can search across the indexes of many reference works. Earlham does not have all of them; the little book icon next to the title indicates we have it. Remote students can use Document Delivery to request specific reference articles not available online.

RefWorks: Manage Citations and Generate Formatted Bibliographies
(off-campus users must obtain Earlham's "Group Code" from a librarian)
Create your own (free) account on this web-based bibliographic manager. Then, you can import citations manually or from databases to manage your citations and generate bibliographies formatted in your preferred style.

Other
Other online reference works can be found on the Resources by Subject pages, and on the Encyclopedias and Dictionaries page.