Type: Reference Sources
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.
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...
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
This database provides access to over 15 million biographical entries on current and historical figures worldwide. Entries include name, date of birth (and death), and the publications that contain information about the individual.
Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism
A thematic encyclopedia of Hinduism. Articles written by scholars include bibliographies. Based upon the multivolume print edition and updated with new articles online.
Christian Muslim Relations
A bibliographical history of the relations between the faiths, currently in two parts. Part I covers the period from 600 to 1500 throughout the Mediterranean basin, while Part II covers the period from 1500 to 1914 in all parts of the world.
Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion
A guide to Judaism with information on every aspect of Jewish belief and practice,ancient and modern.
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection)
Covers essential vocabulary for everyday archaeological work in the English language, including principles, theories, techniques, artefacts, materials, people, and places.
Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Abridged version of the Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Contemporary Literary Criticism
A selection of commentary on contemporary writers from around the world, currently active or active during the later twentieth century. Includes full-text or excerpted criticism from various media, and features works related to religion.
CQ Press Library
CQ Press Library is a comprehensive reference resource for research on U.S. politics, elections and public policy. Includes encyclopedias, statistical sources and analyses of issues.
Dictionary of African Christian Biography
Biographical accounts and church histories--from oral and written sources--integral to a scholarly understanding of African Christianity.
Dictionary of Buddhism
Brief entries on history and doctrines of major Buddhist schools, spread of Buddhism, and issues of contemporary concern such as human rights, the role of women in Buddhist teachings, and "engaged Buddhism".
Dictionary of the Bible
Brief entries on the books of the Bible, customs, religions and worship, history, theology, important places and personalities. Includes explanations of technical terms, methods of interpretation, critical analysis and notes on some biblical scholars.
Dictionary of the Social Sciences
Oxford's Dictionary of the Social Sciences is designed to break down the barriers between social science disciplines, as well as to make social scientific language comprehensible to general readers.
Digital Dictionary of Buddhism
This database consists of Chinese ideograph-based terms, texts, temple, schools, persons, etc. found in Buddhist canonical sources in a range of languages including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Pali, Sanskrit and Tibetan.
Encyclopaedia Islamica
Database is based on the abridged and edited translation of the Persian Dā ʾirat al-Ma ʿārif-i Buzurg-i Islāmī, and updated annually set to be complete around 2028. Special attention is paid to Shi ʿi Islam.
Encyclopaedia Judaica
Online version of Encyclopaedia Judaica,2nd. ed.,published in print in 2007. This encyclopedia covers all aspects of Jewish history and culture in the Diaspora and in Israel from ancient times to the 20th century.
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.
Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān
Encyclopedia covering qur'ānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis as well as essays on important themes and subjects within qur'ānic studies. The online version includes the Qur ʼān Concordance.
Encyclopedia of Ancient History
Online version of thirteen volume Encyclopedia of Ancient History .The entries cover the entire Mediterranean world from the late Bronze Age through the seventh century CE. Content is regularly updated and expanded.