Databases and E-Resources at the Library of Congress

Religion & Philosophy


Adherents.com
Provides statistical information on over 4,200 religions, denominations, churches, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, and movements taken from census data, polls, surveys and organizational reports.

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American Religion Data Archive
ARDA includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations).

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Année Philologique ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
L'Annee philologique contains citations and abstracts covering all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity.

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Anthropology Plus Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains index to articles and essays in over 5,000 sources published in English and other European languages on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, ethnology, material culture, psychology, religious studies and sociocultural anthropology.

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Asian American Drama ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Brings together more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information.

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ATLA Religion Database Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The literature of religion from more than 600 journals; includes articles, essays, multi-author works, and book reviews.

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BEOnline Plus
Free Internet resources selected and annotated by The Library of Congress reference staff

  • Business and Economics Web sites
  • Humanities and other Social Sciences Web sites available from Alcove 9
  • International Resources Web sites available from Portals to the World
  • Science and Technology Web sites
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Bibliography of Asian Studies ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains nearly 600,000 entries covering books, journal articles, individually-authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften on all subjects (but primarily in the humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, South, and Southeast Asia.

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Brepolis Medieval Bibliographies Online ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The leading bibliography of the European Middle Ages (400-1500) providing a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide.

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Catholic Encyclopedia
Contains articles transcribed from the 1913 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia.

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Catholic Periodical and Literature Index Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Covers all aspects of the Catholic faith and lifestyle, and includes over 419,000 index citations of articles and reviews published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith.

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Christian Periodical Index Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
CPI indexes over 130 selected publications from the broad spectrum of knowledge including religion, science, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, history, sociology, nursing, and education.

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Compact Memory
Internetarchiv jüdischer Periodika is a digital collection of some of the most important German-language Jewish periodicals of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries.

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Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon
Covers all dialects and periods of ancient Aramaic, one of the principal languages of antiquity, with a literature of central importance for history and civilization, and especially for the Jewish and Christian religions.

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Credo Reference : Religion & Philosophy Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Includes the full text of over a dozen reference sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, quotations, and biographies.

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Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
A concise guide to technical terms and personal names often encountered in the study of philosophy.

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Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text to works by more than thirty German authors, allowing users to cross-search an outstanding corpus of classic texts.

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E-Journals in Philosophy and Religion ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Browse an alphabetical subject list of electronic journals in Religion and Philosophy.

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Early British Periodicals ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text of hundreds of periodicals detailing everyday British life from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth.

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Early English Books Online ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
EEBO contains digital images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

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Encyclopaedia Judaica ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd edition, features Jewish history and life in all eras, culture, holidays, language, scripture, and religious teachings.

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Encyclopaedia of Islam ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Online Version of Brill's 11 volume Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd Edition, containing more than 13,000 articles on every aspect of Islamic civilization and culture, from 'Abābda to Zurna.

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Encyclopedia Mythica
Contains more than 7,000 full text articles covering mythology, folklore, and religion from around the world.

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EpistemeLinks.com : Philosophy Resources on the Internet
Provides a database of over 1200 links to electronic full texts by famous philosophers throughout history.

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FRANCIS Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The International Humanities and Social Studies database covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (67%), social sciences (30%), and economics (3%).

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Gnomon Online
Online index to journals and series in classics and archaeology.

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History Reference Online ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
ABC-CLIO History Reference contains the full text of over 600 books focusing on United States and world history, current issues, politics, and geography.

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Humanities Full Text Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Wilson Humanities Abstracts covers over 465 sources in archaeology, food, philosophy, art, journalism, religion, classics, linguistics, space, film, music, world history, folklore, performing arts, and world literature.

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Index Islamicus Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere (including the Arabs in Spain).

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Indice de Hispania Sacra
Index to articles on church history and the history of the Catholic Church in Spain published in the periodical Hispania sacra (Madrid).

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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) contains a collection of articles about philosophy, arranged alphabetically.

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Iter Gateway to the Renaissance and Middle Ages ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Covers all literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

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JewishEncyclopedia.com
Contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906.

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ORB Encyclopedia for Medieval Studies
Browsable full text encyclopedia of the middle ages focusing on the Early, High, and Late periods as well as sections on medieval Slavic/Russian, religion, languages and linguistics, and culture.

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Oxford Reference Online : Humanities & Social Sciences Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text of over 150 books in general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, and business and professional subjects published by Oxford University Press.

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Oxford Scholarship Online Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text of over 1,100 Oxford University Press books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion.

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Perseus Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece
A multimedia interactive database designed to facilitate the study of archaic and classical Greece and to expand the ways in which ancient Greek literature, history, art, and archaeology can be examined.

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Philosopher's Index Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Philosophers Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields.

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PhilSci Archive
A searchable electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science.

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Religion Periodicals via ProQuest Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
ProQuest coverage of religious news and information, along with commentary on general interest topics from various religious perspectives and theological studies, found in more than 90 periodicals.

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Responsa Project (Select Login) ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The Global Jewish Database (the Responsa Project) ia an electronic collection of Jewish texts in Hebrew, embodying thousands of years of Jewish learning and rabbinical literature.

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Scottish Documents
Provides access to a fully searchable index of over 520,000 Scottish wills and testaments dating from 1500 to 1901.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy contains a number of extended articles on a range of topics in philosophy from classical times to the modern day.

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Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists
TOCS - IN provides the tables of contents of a selection of over 180 Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals.

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Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
TBRC is a database of Tibetan literature (especially Buddhist works), people, and history.

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Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Author index to articles published in the 19th century, including biographical information, pseudonyms used, and bibliography of articles written.

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