Topic: Religion and the Social Sciences

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.

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.

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.

Business Premium Collection
Extensive full-text database combining scholarly journals and other sources relevant to research in business and economics. Use this database to find information about the administration of nonprofit and religious organizations.

EconLit
Provides bibliographic coverage of a wide-range of the world's economics literature (journals, books, book reviews, dissertations, working papers), including from the American Economic Association.

Environment Index
Use to find articles about environmental studies and related disciplines from around the world. Includes articles in which environmental issues intersect with world religious traditions, communities, or organizations. Updated regularly.

PILOTS Database
PILOTS is an interdisciplinary bibliographical database of over 22,000 entries covering published international literature on traumatic stress.Most entries include abstracts. It is produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic...

PsycINFO
A database from the American Psychological Association covering behavioral and social sciences. It includes journals, book chapters, and dissertations. Coverage in religion includes chaplaincy and pastoral care.

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.

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...

E-Books and E-Texts

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...

Images and Sounds

LGBT Studies in Video
LGBT Studies in Video is a streaming video collection of documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and feature films on LGBT history, culture, politics, social movements, and religion.

News Media

Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis. Use this to find news stories and legal cases related to religion.

Reference Sources

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.

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.

Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religion
Entries provide overview of key concepts concerning sciences and religions, drawing from numerous academic disciplines and global religious traditions. Features include systematic question-answer format.

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.

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...

Research Guides

Religious Statistics

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

Statistics and Data

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.

Religious Statistics

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

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...

World Religion Database (WRD)
Contains detailed statistics on religious affiliation for every country of the world. It provides source material, including censuses and surveys, as well as best estimates for every religion to offer a definitive picture of international religious...