Reference Sources

• Encyclopedias of Religion
• Encyclopedias and dictionaries of Judaism
• Encyclopedias and dictionaries of Islam
• Encyclopedias and dictionaries of Buddhism
• Encyclopedias and dictionaries of Hinduism

Databases

• ATLA Religion Database with ATLAS Serials
  This is the main database for Religious Studies. It covers world religions, Bible Studies, Church history, and religious perspectives on social issues. It includes articles from journals, essays from multi-author works, and book reviews. No abstracts. 1949-onwards. Updated semi-annually.
• Academic Search Premier
  A major multi-disciplinary English-language fulltext database. Indexes academic journals, magazines and some newspapers. Includes abstracts and links to articles. 1975 onwards. Updated daily.
• America: History and Life
  Includes abstracts. Covers all aspects of U.S. and Canadian history, culture and current affairs, including religious history, from prehistoric times to the present.Links to fulltext articles.
• Bibliography of Asian Studies
  Indexes western-language monographs, articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia . No abstracts. No links to CLUES or fulltext.
• Catholic Periodical and Literature Index
  Indexes articles published in Roman Catholic periodicals, as well as to papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith, authored by Catholics, or produced by Catholic publishers. 1981 onwards. No abstracts. Links to articles.
• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
  Covers journal articles, book reviews, dissertations, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. No links to CLUES or fulltext.
• Francis
  A European, multilingual, multidisciplinary database covering journals and other documents in a range of subjects, including religion. Abstracts. Links to fulltext and CLUES.
• Historical Abstracts
  Includes abstracts. Covers the history of all countries of the world except the United States and Canada (see America: History and Life) since 1450.
• Humanities Abstracts
  Indexing from 1984 onwards (with abstracts from 1994) to articles in over major periodicals in the humanities, including theology and religion. .
• International Medieval Bibliography
  Includes abstracts. Multilingual coverage of the literature on the Middle Ages, 1967 onwards. No links to CLUES or fulltext.
• New Testament Abstracts
  Indexes the scholarly literature, journal articles and books, on New Testament studies, from 1985 onwards. Includes abstracts. Links to fulltext and CLUES for articles only.
• Old Testament Abstracts
  Indexes the scholarly literature, journal articles and books, on Old Testament studies, 1978 onwards. Includes abstracts.Links to fulltext and CLUES for articles only.
• Philosophers' Index
  Includes abstracts. Covers the literature of philosophy and related areas. Links to CLUES and fulltext.
• RAMBI
  Index of articles in Jewish Studies selected on the basis of their value for research. Multilingual. 1966- . No links to CLUES or fulltext.
• Religious and Theological Abstracts
  Provides objective summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology. This database also lists a wide variety of periodical literature, including Christian, Jewish, and other World religions and provides English language abstracts of articles in English, Hebrew, Afrikaans, and major European languages.
• Sociological Abstracts
  Abstracts of articles in sociology and related areas, such as anthropology and religion. 1963 onwards. Links to CLUES and fulltext.
• Social Sciences Citation Index and Humanities Citation Index through Web of Science
  Citation databases allow identification of the number of times a particular work or author is cited in the literature as well as topic, keyword, related records and author searches on over 1,000 humanities and 1,700 social sciences journals. Most records include abstracts. 1989 onwards. Links to CLUES and fulltext.

For a complete list of databases in Religion research use the Concordia Libraries Database Finder.

CD-ROM Indexes

• Index to Jewish Periodicals
  Available on CD-ROM in the Webster Library only.

See also the guide to resources in Theological Studies

Theses

To find theses, from Concordia and from elsewhere, see How to find theses, dissertations and MBA research papers.

Journals

To find a specific journal or article for which you have the title of the journal, see our E-Journal Finder.

For more information on finding articles, see How to find articles.