INTERNET LINKS 

• American Sunday School Books Digitization Project (Michigan State) is an ongoing effort to digitize 121 American Sunday school books from the Russel B. Nye Popular Culture Collection and the Clarke Historical Library.
• Material History of American Religion Project studies the history of American religion by focusing on material objects and economic themes.
• The North Star: A Journal of African-American Religious History publishes current and back issues online.
• Religion and the Founding of the American Republic - a Library of Congress exhibition.
• The Religious Freedom Page provides links relating to issues of religious freedom worldwide, with emphasis on the US. 

ENCYCLOPEDIAS, DICTIONARIES & HANDBOOKS 

Search Orbis by Subject Heading:

• Catholic Church United States History
• Democracy Religious aspects Christianity
• Freedom of religion United States Dictionaries
• United States Religion Encyclopedias

Dictionary of Christianity in America.  Ed. Daniel G. Reid.  Downers Grove: InterVarsity,  1990.  SML, Reference BR515 D53 1990.  Also in Bass, Reference 

Encyclopedia of American religions Melton, J. Gordon. 7th ed., 2003. (netLibrary : Gale Group)

Encyclopedia of Mormonism.  Ed. Daniel H. Ludlow.  New York: Macmillan, 1992.  5v.  SML, Reference BX8605.5 E62X 1992 

Encyclopedia of Religion in the South.  Ed. Samuel S. Hill.  Macon: Mercer, 1984.   SML, Reference BR535 E52 1984 

Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience: Studies of Traditions and Movements.  Eds. Charles H. Lippy and Peter W. Williams.  New York: Scribner, 1988.  3 v.  SML, Reference BL2525 +E53 1988 

The encyclopedia of American religious history / Edward L. Queen II, Stephen R. Prothero, and Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. ; foreword by Martin E. Marty, editorial advisor. SML, Reference BL2525 .Q44 2001 (LC)

Lewis, James R. Witchcraft Today: an Encyclopedia of Wiccan and Neopaga Traditions. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1999. SML, Reference BF1571 L49X 1999

Queen, Edward, Stephen R. Prothero, and Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr.  The Encyclopedia of American Religious History.  New York: Facts on File, 1996.  SML, Reference BL2525 Q44X 1996.  Also in DIVINITY Reading Room

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BIBLIOGRAPHIES 

Search Orbis by Subject Heading:

• Church historians United States
• United States Religion Bibliography
• Women and religion United States Bibliography

Blumhofer, Edith Waldvogel.  Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism: A Guide to the Sources.  New York: Garland, 1990.   SML, Reference Z7778 U6 B58 1990 

Church and State in America: A Bibliographical Guide.  Ed. John F. Wilson.  New York: Greenwood, 1986-87.  2 v.   SML, Reference Z7776.72 C49 1986 

Dare, Philip N.  American Communes to 1860: A Bibliography.  New York: Garland, 1990.   SML, Reference Z7164 C69 D37 1990 

Miller, Timothy.  American Communes, 1860-1960: A Bibliography.  New York: Garland, 1990. 
 SML, Reference Z7164 C69 M54 1990 

Religion and Society in North America: An Annotated Bibliography.  Ed. Robert deV. Brunkow. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1983.   DIVINITY Z7831 R44 1983 

DATABASES & ONLINE BOOKS

19th Century Masterfile includes Index to Periodical Articles in Religion (1890-1899)

ATLA IBRR Online is a continuation of the Index to Book Reviews in Religion that began in 1949 as part of Religion Index One: Periodicals.

ATLA Religion Database  is designed to support religious and theological scholarship in graduate education and faculty research. The file contains citations from international titles and multi-author works in and related to the field of religion. It also includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, book reviews, and Doctor of Ministry projects from ATLA's print indexes: Religion Index One (RIO), Religion Index Two (RIT), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR). Though coverage is from 1949 to the present, not all publications begin in 1949.

American Religion Data Archive (ARDA) preserves quantitative data on American religion, improves access to this data, increases the use of the data, and allows comparisons across data files. The ARDA collection includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations).

Encyclopedia of American Religions contains information on North American religious groups in the U.S. and Canada -- from Adventists to Zen Buddhists. Essays and directory listings describe the historical development of religious families and give factual information about each group within those families, including, when available, membership figures, educational facilities, and periodicals.

New Catholic Encyclopedia

Religion and Philosophy Collection covers world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.

Religious and Theological Abstracts contains summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of religion and theology. It indexes 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.

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SEE ALSO

Research in American History: a library research guide to American history.

Research in General Religion: a library research guide to general religion.