Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions.
Keith Crim, general editor ; Roger A.Bullard, Larry D. Shinn, associate
editors. Nashville, Tenn. : Abingdon, 1981.
- CCL, Reference BL31 A24(LC)
Divinity Library, Trowbridge Reading Room BL31 A24
- Includes signed articles and bibliographies
covering the historical development, beliefs, and observances of religions
still practiced. Includes articles on regional developments of religions
which have spread across wide geographical areas.
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- Browning, W. R. F. A Dictionary of the
Bible. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
- SML, Main Reference BS440 B73X 1996 (LC)
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- A Dictionary of Comparative Religion.
General editor, S.G.F. Brandon.. N.Y.: Weidenfeld & Nicholson,1970.
- SML, Main Reference Room BL31 D53 (LC)
Divinity Library, Trowbridge Reading Room BL31 D54
A scholarly, one-volume encyclopedia with signed articles by known authorities
covering the world's major and minor religions, modern and ancient.
Most of the articles include bibliographies. A unique feature is the
inclusion of a "synoptic index" for the major religions which provides
a list of all related terms found in the dictionary under the names
of both religions and countries.
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- Dowson, John. A Classical Dictionary
of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature.
11th ed. London, Routledge & Paul, 1968.
- CCL, Reference BL1105 D68 1968
SML, Main Reference Room BL1105 D68 1950 (LC) (7th ed.; 1950)
Published in many editions with few changes since 1879.
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- Encyclopedia of African American Religions.
Edited by Larry G. Murphy, J. Gordon Melton, Gary L. Ward. New York
: Garland Pub., 1993.
- Divinity Library, Trowbridge Reading Room
Oversize BR563 N4 E53
Almost two-thirds of the entries in
this work are biographies, but it also provides a basic bibliography,
a directory of churches and religious organizations, lists of religious
leaders by denomination, and a detailed chronology beginning in 1618.
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- Encyclopedia
of American Religions.
- This online encyclopedia includes information
on more than 2,300 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.
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Encyclopedia of the American Religious
Experience : Studies of Traditions and Movements. Charles H. Lippy
and Peter W. Williams, editors. New York : Scribner, 1988. 3v.
- SML, Main Reference Room BL2525 +E53 1988
(LC)
Divinity Library, Trowbridge Reading Room Oversize BL2525 E53 1988
An authoritative, comprehensive work by leading scholars in history,
religion, theology, American studies, sociology, and philosophy. It
consists of 105 essays arranged under nine broad subjects: Approaches
to religion in America; North America:contexts and backgrounds; Jewish
and Christian traditions; Religions outside the Jewish and Christian
traditions; Movements in American religion; American religious thought
and literature; Liturgy, worship and the arts; Religion and the political
and social orders; The dissemination of American religion. Includes
selected bibliographies.
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- Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Edited
by G.P. Malalasekera. Colombo: Govt. of Ceylon, 1961.
- SML, Main Reference Room BL1403 E52 (LC)
Divinity Library, Stacks BL1403 E5
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- The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy
and Religion: Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Zen. Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber
[et al.] ; editors, Stephan Schuhmacher, Gert Woerner; translators,
Michael H. Kohn, Karen Ready, Werner Wunsche. Boston : Shambhala, 1989.
- CCL, Reference BL1005 L4813 1989
Divinity Library, Stack Reference BL1005 L4813 1989
This work was written by specialists for the use of the general reader
and presents the basic terminology and doctrinal systems of the four
major religions of the East. The longer entries often include references
to important translations of texts or other studies, and it contains
a long classified bibliography that includes both primary and secondary
sources.
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- Encyclopaedia Iranica. Center for
Iranian Studies, Columbia University, 1982-.
- SML, Arabic/Islamic Reading, Rm 508 DS253
E53+
SML, Starr Main Reference Room DS253 E53+
Now nearly half completed, the Encyclopaedia Iranica is the most extensive
compendium ever conceived on the past and present culture of the people
who speak an Iranian language and their contribution to the broader
history of human civilization. It is the only precise and reliable reference
work on the lands, life, culture and history of all Iranian peoples
and their interaction with other societies.
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- The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New ed.
Prepared by a number of leading Orientalists. Edited by J. H. Kramers,
H. A. R. Gibb and E. Levi-Provencal, under the patronage of the International
Union of Academies. Leiden, Brill, 1954- . (In progress)
- SML, Main Reference Room DS37 E5 1954
SML, Arabic/Islamic Reading, Rm 508 DS37 E51 1954
A completely new edition of the most important, authoritative reference
work in English on Islam and Islamic subjects. Includes long, signed
articles, with bibliographies. Special emphasis is given in this edition
to economic and social topics, but it remains the standard encyclopedic
reference on the Islamic religion in English.
For a source which focuses primarily
on Islam as a religion (rather than a culture), see Glasse (below).
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- Encyclopedia of Judaism & Dictionary
of Jewish Biography. Chicago: Davka Corporation, 1996.
- SML, Electronic Text Center, Room 509
The Encyclopedia... is an English-language,
one-volume encyclopedia of Judaism. Authorities have contributed over
1000 articles, covering a variety of topics, from biographical entries
on heroic rabbis to the customs and traditions of Jewish communities.
The Dictionary... includes about 1000 biographies of Jewish individuals.
It includes figures from various fields: writer, philosophers, politicians,
Nobel prize winners. It covers 5000 years of history extending from
Biblical times to the present day.
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- Encyclopaedia Judaica. Jerusalem,
Encyclopaedia Judaica; [New York] Macmillan [c1971-72, v. 1, c1972].
16 v.
- SML, Main Reference Room DS102.8 +E63
Divinity Library, Trowbridge Reading Room Oversize DS102.8 E496 (LC)
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The Encyclopedia of Religion. Editor
in chief, Mircea Eliade. N.Y.: MacMillan, 1986-87. 16v.
- SML, Main Reference Room BL31 +E56 (LC)
CCL Reference BL31 +E56 1986(LC)
Divinity Library, Trowbridge Reading Room Oversize BL31 E46 1987
Now the standard, scholarly encyclopedia in the general field of religion,
replacing Hastings' Encyclopedia of religion and ethics (1908-27).
It is intended to "introduce educated, non-specialist readers to important
ideas, practices and persons in the relgious experience of human-kind
from the Paleolithic past to our day." (Foreword) Its long, signed articles
by over 1,400 contributors contain bibliographies and deal with all
aspects of religion: doctrines, myths, theologies, ethics, cults, sacraments,
and religious groups. The final volume is a comprehensive index, including
a synoptic outline.
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- Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics.
Ed. by James Hastings.... N.Y.: Scribner, 1908-27. 13v.
- SML, Main Reference Room BL31 +H37(LC)
A work of major importance covering religion in all of its aspects and
histories, including related subjects in anthropology, mythology, folklore,
biology, psychology, economics, and sociology. Now largely updated by
The encyclopedia of religion (1986-87), but still important for
its historical perspective. The articles are signed and include comprehensive
bibliographies.
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- Glasse, Cyril. The Concise Encyclopedia
of Islam. San Francisco, CA : Harper & Row, 1989.
- SML, Main Reference Room BP40 G42 1989
(LC)
Divinity Library, Trowbridge Reading Room BP40 G42 1989
Divinity Library, Stacks BP40 G42 1989b
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- Grimes, John A. A concise dictionary
of Indian philosophy : Sanskrit terms defined in English. New and
rev. ed. Albany : State University of New York Press, c1996.
- SML, Main Reference Room B131 G67 1996
(LC)
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- The HarperCollins Bible Dictionary.
General editor, Paul J. Achtemeier ; associate editors, Roger S. Boraas
... with the Society of Biblical Literature. San Francisco: Harper San
Francisco, 1996.
- SML, Main Reference Room BS440 H237 1996
(LC)
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- Hinnels, John R. The Facts on File Dictionary
of Religions. New York: Facts on File, 1984.
- SML, Main Reference Room BL31 F33 1984(LC)
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- Humphreys, Christmas. A Popular Dictionary
of Buddhism. 1st pbk. ed. London : Curzon Press, 1984.
- SML, Main Reference Room BQ130 H85 1984
(LC)
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- Mead, Frank Spencer. Handbook of Denominations
in the United States. 7th ed. Nashville: Abingdon, 1980.
- SML, Main Reference Room BR516 M38 1980(LC)
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- Melton, J. Gordon. The encyclopedia of
American religions. 5th ed. Detroit : Gale Research, 1996.
- SML, Main Reference Room BL2525 +M449 1996
(LC)
Divinity Library, Trowbridge Reading Room
Covers religious groups in both the United States and Canada and consists
of essays on the history of religion in those countries, on various
religions and religious movements, and a directory which includes both
historical and contemporary information on those religions and movements.
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- New Catholic Encyclopedia. Prepared
by an editorial staff at the Catholic University of America. 2nd ed.
Detroit : Thomson/Gale, 2003.
- Connect
to New
Catholic Encyclopedia online.
SML, Main Reference Room BX841 N44 2003 (LC)+
DIVINITY, Trowbridge Reading Room BX841
N44 2003
"An international work of reference on the teachings, history, organization,
and activities of the Catholic Church and on all institutions, religions,
philosophies, and scientific and cultural developments affecting the
Catholic Church from its beginnings to the present." (Subtitle)
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- The New Scaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of
Religious Knowledge: Embracing Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal and Practical
Theology and Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Biography, from
the Earliest Times to the Present Day New York: Funk & Wagnalls,
1908-12. 13v.
- SML, Main Reference Room BR95 +S32 (LC)
CCL, Reference BR95 S32 1966 (LC)
Divinity Library, Stack Reference BR95 S43
Divinity Library, Stacks BR95 S43
BEINECKE, Reference BR95 S32 1959 (LC)
Despite its age, still one of the most important encyclopedias in the
field of religion in English. It's based on the third edition of Johann
Jakob Herzog's Realencyklopadie fur protestantische Theologie und
Kirche (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1896-1913), but new material was added
and the bibliographies accompanying the articles were enhanced. Supplemented
by:
- New 20th-century Encyclopedia of Religious
Knowledge . Edited by J.D. Douglas ; consulting editors, Robert
G. Clouse ...[et al.]. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Book House,
c1991.
- SML, Main Reference Room BR95 N395X 1991
(LC)
- CCL, Reference BR95 N395X 1991 (LC)
- DIVINITY, Trowbridge Reading Room BR95
N395 1991
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- Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic
World. New York : Oxford University Press, 1995. 4v.
- SML, Main Reference Room DS35.53 +O95 1995
SML, Arabic/Islamic Reading, Rm 508 DS35.53 +O95 1995
CCL, Reference DS35.53 +O95 1995
Divinity Library, Trowbridge Reading Room Oversize DS35.53 O95 1995
"... the first comprehensive encyclopedia dedicated to the institutions,
religion, politics, and culture in Muslim societies throughout the world.
The focus throughout is on the Islamic dimension of the Muslim experience
in recent history, with background articles that ground the information
in its historical context. Emphasis is placed on the practice and theory
of Islam in Muslim societies around the globe, including the Arab heartland
and South and Southeast Asia, and Europe and the Americas." (Publisher's
catalog)
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- Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
. Hans J. Hillerbrand, editor in chief. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1996. 4v.
- SML, Main Reference Room BR302.8 +O93X
1996 (LC)
DIVINITY, Trowbridge Reading Room Oversize BR302.8 O93 1996
"... the first major reference to cover the subject of the Reformation
in its entirety. Setting the issues of theology and ecclesiology within
the broader context of the social and intellectual history of the time,
it is the most authoritative reference available on early modern European
society as a whole." (Publisher's catalog)
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- Parrinder, Edward Geoffrey. A Dictionary
of Non-Christian Religions. Philadelphia: Westminster Pr., 1971.
- SML, Main Reference Room BL31 P37 (LC)
CCL, Reference BL31 P37 1971 (LC)
Divinity Library, Trowbridge Reading Room BL 31 P36
SSL, Reference BL31 P37 (LC)
Focuses on Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam, but includes entries on religion
and religion-related topics (e.g. gods, heroes, cults, beliefs, and
places) of all the religions of the world.
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- The Shambhala dictionary of Buddhism
and Zen. Editors, Stephan Schuhmacher, Gert Woerner; translator,
Michael H. Kohn. Boston : Shambhala ; New York : Distributed in the
U.S. by Random House, 1991.
- SML, Main Reference Room BL1005 L4813 1991
(LC)
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- Stutley, Margaret. Harper's Dictionary
of Hinduism : Its Mythology, Folklore, Philosophy, Literature, and History
. New York : Harper & Row, 1977.
- SML, Main Reference Room BL1105 S79 1977
(LC)
Divinity, Trowbridge Reading Room BL1105 S88 1977
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- Vidal, Jacques. ed. Dictionnaire des
religions. 2e ed. corr. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France,
1984.
- SML, Stacks, BL31 D55 1985(LC)
Divinity Library, Stack Reference, BL31 D55 1985 (LC)
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- Walker, Benjamin. Hindu World: An Encyclopedic
Survey of Hinduism. London, Allen & Unwin, 1968. 2 v.
- CCL, Reference BL1105 W35
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