duPont Library: Religion Research Guide: Getting Started

Welcome

This guide is intended to direct you to fundamental resources to use when performing research in the area of religious studies. The resources here are by no means comprehensive, but are intended to help you achieve a sound start to your work. Please feel free to contact me if you have suggestions for additions or other ways to improve this guide.

Credo Reference Search Box

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 3,000,000 reference entries on topics from all the major
academic subject areas serving as a great starting point for research. Full text articles plus images, audio files, and videos. Credo Reference also includes cross-references to other full text titles containing related information.
Includes more than 450 encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, guides, and atlases in all fields. Sources are selected from 100 major publishers, such as ABC Clio, Bloomsbury, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Greenwood, Penguin, Routledge, Sage, Thames and Hudson, Wiley, and more.

Online Reference Collections

Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
A growing collection of significant subject-specific encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference sources.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Contains nearly 200 fully-indexed, cross-searchable reference works published by Oxford University Press.
We have the Premium Collection and the Western Civilization Collection.
Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new window
A library of discipline-based subject modules created by leading scholars. Each guide includes the most important and significant sources in a specific area of study, with unique editorial commentary to show how the cited sources are interrelated. We have these subjects: Anthropology, Biblical Studies, Buddhism, and International Relations. Click on Browse by Subject to view these subjects.

Jessie Ball duPont Library

Religion Research Guide

Religious Studies & Philosophy Librarian

Welcome

Credo Reference Search Box

Online Reference Collections