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Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary database of scholarly articles and a great starting place for research. Covers literature from 1984 to the present.

Acta Sanctorum
A collection of documents examining the lives of Christian saints, organized according to each saint's feast day.

Africa-Wide: NiPAD

Africa-Wide NiPAD contains twenty-seven African, European and North American databases with close to 2 million records indexing printed texts, maps and music recordings on all topics in African studies.Coverage goes back to the 19th century.

Alt-Press Watch
Alt-Press Watch is a full-text database of articles in alternative, independent publications. This multi-disciplinary resource covers publications since the 1990s and offers diverse perspectives on religion.

America: History and Life
Scholarly journal articles covering the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to today. Essential for the study of American religious history. Use it to search for material about a historical time period.

American National Biography
Brief biographies of notable Americans from all eras and walks of life, including religious leaders. Created by scholars, the biographical sketches include bibliographical references. All featured people are no longer living.

American Periodicals (1740-1900)
Searchable, full-text database, with digitized page images, of more than 1,100 American magazines and journals that originated between 1741 and 1900. Subject matter includes religion, theology, missions, abolition.

Analecta hymnica Medii Aevi
An extensive collection and history of the medieval Latin hymns of the Catholic Church, 500-1400 based upon the original 55 volume edition of Guido Dreves.

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries
The Anchor Bible commentaries are intended for the general reader, yet are stringent in their linguistic and historical scholarship. Hebrew and Greek words are transliterated.

Année Philologique
An international index that covers scholarship on all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity, including early Christianity. Search by modern or ancient author, ancient texts, disciplines, and more.

Annual Reviews
Annual Reviews offer authoritative syntheses of the primary research literature in 46 fields including political science, sociology, and anthropology.

Anthropology Plus
Anthropology Plus covers social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology; ethnology, archaeology, folklore and material culture; and interdisciplinary studies from the mid-1800's to the present.

Arabic Literature of Africa Online
Arabic Literature of Africa Online is a bio-bibliography on the Arabic manuscript tradition in the African continent, which continued well into the 20th century CE.It offers authoritative information about African authors, the texts they wrote in Arabic...

Archnet
Archnet is an open access, intellectual resource focused on architecture, urbanism, environmental and landscape design, visual culture, and conservation issues related to the Muslim world.

Art Full Text
Use Art Full Text to find articles in contemporary art and architecture journals published worldwide and in many languages. Includes content on the intersections of art and religion.

Art Index Retrospective
Art Index Retrospective is a database of articles in 600 art, archaeology, and architecture journals, museum bulletins, and yearbooks that were published 1929-1984. Includes content on the intersections of art and religion.

ARTbibliographies Modern
ARTbibliographies Modern contains abstracts of articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, and reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art worldwide. Includes content on the intersections of art and religion.

ARTstor
ARTstor is a digital library of over 2 million high-quality images sourced from museums and other repositories.

Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA)
ARDA provides free access to religion data and statistics. Data are submitted by scholars and research centers, and offers national and international survey findings, local, national and global profiles of religion, and detailed reports.

ATLA Religion Database
Covers contemporary scholarly journal articles, essays, sermons, and book reviews in the study of religion. Materials cover all religions and all theological points of view.

Atlanta Constitution (1868-1942)
A full-text database containing digitized images of the original format of The Atlanta Constitution (1868-1942), with content including articles, photos, and advertisements. All text within the database is searchable.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
This database lists journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, historic preservation, interior design, landscape architecture, and urban planning. Includes articles on churches and other religious...

Baltimore Sun (1837-1987)
A full-text database containing digitized images of the original format of the Baltimore Sun (1837-1987), with content including articles, photos, and advertisements. All text within the database is searchable.

Bar-Ilan University Responsa Project
Searchable rabbinical responsa containing halachic, historical, sociological and economic data reflecting approximately two thousand years of Jewish life.

Bible in English
Twenty different versions of the English Bible from the tenth to the twentieth century. Search them all, or a specific Bible book or Bible version.

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