Key Databases P-T

Reader's Guide Retrospective

Readers' Guide Retrospective indexes popular and general interest magazines published in the United States and Canada. Dates: 1890-1982

Primary sources related to selected religious movements born in the U.S., including Pentecostalism, Mormonism, New Thought, Neopagan religions. Also provides robust coverage of New Age, Wicca, and neo-Christian movements.

Religious and Theological Abstracts

Provides objective summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology. Database lists a wide variety of periodical literature, including Christian, Jewish, and other world religions, and provides English language...

Religious Biographical and Genealogical Information

This guide describes biographical information available from Harvard Divinity School Library and online through the Harvard Library.

Religious Statistics

This guide describes information about religious statistics available from Harvard Divinity School Library and online through the Harvard Library.

Ren wen zi liao ku shi sheng ban 1.1

This database allows searching of the full punctuated text of excerpts from a wide range of Chinese historical, literary, philosophical, and religious texts. The results page provides the sentence in which the search term appears, along with a citation...

Research in Ministry Online

An index of dissertations and theses from theological schools in the USA and Canada on topics related to ministry, theology, and religion with some full text content. Coverage is primarily from 1981 to the present, with some earlier materials.

RILM Abstracts of Musical Literature (1967-present)

Published by the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is an international bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines in 202 languages, including original language titles; title...

RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals

RIPM (Répertoire international de la presse musicale) provides citations to articles from over sixty international nineteenth- and twentieth-century music periodicals including Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung, Caecilia, Dwight's Journal of Music, L'Italia...

Rock's Backpages

Articles spanning from 1948 to the present by music journalists, critics, and artists from major publications like Rolling Stone and Billboard, and smaller, local publications. Topics related to religion are included.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online

Articles in the field of philosophy written by subject experts. Philosophy of religions and ethics are covered. Browsable by topics, periods, regions and religions.

San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922)

The San Francisco Chronicle has been one of the leading newspapers in America since its founding in 1865. Its pages provide a record of westward expansion, including completion of the transcontinental railroad, the Klondike gold rush, and the 1906 San...

Searchable Greek Inscriptions

Ancient Greek inscriptions and papyri held at Duke University, University of Michigan, and Cornell University. The texts are organized by period and corpora; they are available transliterated in Latin characters and in Greek. The database covers Greece...

Sefaria

A free library of Jewish texts, including Tanakh, Midrash, Mishnah, Talmud, Halakhah, and Kabbalah. Sefaria is a non-profit organization.

Shi san jing (13 Classics of China)

This database allows searching of the text of punctuated and unpunctuated editions of the Thirteen Classics of China. The unpunctuated version is the 1815 Ruan Yuan Shi san jing zhu shu; the punctuated one is Duan ju shi san jing jing wen. The results...

Social Explorer

Social Explorer offers user-friendly access historical census data for the United States through the use of interactive maps and reports. Currently provides access to data from 1940 to 2000 at census tract, county, state and national level. Since the...

Social Science Premium Collection

The ProQuest Social Science Premium Collection provides broad coverage of the social sciences, and includes topics related to religion. It provides abstracts and full-text coverage of journal articles, books, and dissertations.

Social Services Abstracts

Social Services Abstracts focuses on social work, human services, and related areas, including community and mental health services, social and health policy, family and social welfare, poverty, homelessness, and gerontology. The database provides...

Social Theory

Social Theory is a database that brings together an extensive range of influential writings representing the most important trends of sociological thought from the eighteenth century to the present day. Included in the more than 150,000 pages of...

Sociological Abstracts

Explore sociology and social science articles, including sociology of religion, from 1973 onward in 30 languages worldwide.

Sources chrétiennes online

Critical editions of texts from the first 1400 years of the Church. This is the searchable version of the Sources Chrétiennes series. The series features original texts in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian, and Georgian, accompanied by French translations.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy organizes scholars from around the world in philosophy and related disciplines to create and maintain an up-to-date reference work.

Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts

An international abstracting database covering key areas of women's and gender studies.

Sunday Times Digital Archive

Since 1822, The Sunday Times has provided thoughtful analysis and commentary on the week's news and society at large. Murder, theatre, sport and politics- all collide in its pages in an abundance of glorious narrative detail. Coverage:1821 -2006

Talmud Yerushalmi Citation Database

Talmud Yerushalmi Citation Database includes the Academy of Hebrew Language's edition of the Talmud Yerushalmi (searchable by column/row, Mischna, word, subject, and comment) and citations to references to the Talmud Yerushalmi in early commentaries...

Television News Archive (Vanderbilt University)

The Vanderbilt Television News Archive database is the guide to the collection of network television news programs at Vanderbilt University. Online video is available for CNN news broadcasts from October 1995 to the present. Requires recent version of...

The Treasury of Lives

The Treasury of Lives is a biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalayan region. The Treasury provides biographies of a wide range of figures, from Buddhist masters to artists and political officials; most essays are peer reviewed...