Topic: African and African American Religious Studies

Article Databases

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.

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.

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.

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.

Proquest Black Studies

Proquest Black Studies combines primary and secondary sources, including leading Black Historical Newspapers, archival documents and collections, key government materials, videos, writings by major Black intellectuals and leaders, scholarly journals, and...

Race Relations Abstracts
A multidisciplinary source of peer-reviewed and general interest articles related to race relations. Includes scholarship on the intersection of religion and race.

E-Books and E-Texts

Classic Sermon Index
A collection of over 40,000 sermons from ancient to contemporary times. Sermons are continually added to the database and are in English or English translation.

Oxford African American Studies Center
The Oxford African American Studies Center is a reference database on African American and African history and culture, including encyclopedias, biographies, primary sources, images, and other research materials.

Proquest Black Studies

Proquest Black Studies combines primary and secondary sources, including leading Black Historical Newspapers, archival documents and collections, key government materials, videos, writings by major Black intellectuals and leaders, scholarly journals, and...

Images and Sounds

History Makers
Digital collection of video interviews with prominent African Americans including religious leaders. The collection is searchable.

News Media

Liberator (1831-1865)
The most influential newspaper in the antebellum, antislavery crusade in the United States, published in Boston, Massachusetts, by William Lloyd Garrison.

Proquest Black Studies

Proquest Black Studies combines primary and secondary sources, including leading Black Historical Newspapers, archival documents and collections, key government materials, videos, writings by major Black intellectuals and leaders, scholarly journals, and...

Reference Sources

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...

Encyclopaedia of Islam Online
A scholarly encyclopedia in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, with the online version bringing remote access to over 13,000 articles.Fonts must be installed for characters to display properly. Instructions and fonts available on resource home page.

Encyclopedia of Religion
The second edition of a classic reference work covering all aspects of religion. Emphasis is on religion's role in everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture. Articles with bibliographies are authored by scholars of religion.

Encyclopedia of Religion in America
Encyclopedia of Religion in America examines how religious history and practices are woven into the political, social, cultural, and historical landscape of North America. Covers early European settlement to the present day.

Oxford African American Studies Center
The Oxford African American Studies Center is a reference database on African American and African history and culture, including encyclopedias, biographies, primary sources, images, and other research materials.

Oxford Bibliographies Online
Provides annotated bibliographies of essential literature on various subjects in the humanities and social sciences. Guides are updated quarterly, with entries added yearly to each subject area, as well as revisions to existing entries.

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion
The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion seeks to provide accurate, scholarly information about the world’s many religions and topics of research and debate. It will grow and evolve continuously, compiling over time an extensive collection of vetted...

Oxford Research Encyclopedia. African History
A research encyclopedia that when complete will cover the whole range of African history including recent religious movements. Articles are written by scholars who are asked to provide a comprehensive overview of the topic as well as a historiography and...

Pluralism Project
An ongoing research effort, the Pluralism Project studies and interprets religious diversity and interfaith relations in the United States. The site includes an introduction to the religions of the world through the lens of America, a survey of the...

Proquest Black Studies

Proquest Black Studies combines primary and secondary sources, including leading Black Historical Newspapers, archival documents and collections, key government materials, videos, writings by major Black intellectuals and leaders, scholarly journals, and...

Research Guides