Starting Your Research - Religious Studies 308: Special Topics - "Religious Freedom" - duPont Library at University of the South

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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.

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Other Reference Sources

Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion in America
This encyclopedia provides an collection of articles by and for scholars on topics in religion research. The encyclopedia is divided into five sections: Space, Religious Ideas, Race and Ethnicity, Public Life, and Empire. You can search for articles by topic using keywords.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The most substantial, authoritative, and scholarly open-access online encyclopedia in philosophy, but not yet complete. Lengthy articles and extensive bibliographies.

Oxford Reference Online
Contains 187 fully-indexed, cross-searchable reference works published by Oxford University Press. The collection includes subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, and reference works in more than 20 subject areas.
We have the Premium Collection and the Western Civilization Collection.
Oxford Handbooks Online
Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline and unpacks it, explaining the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and setting the agenda for how those debates might evolve. The handbooks offer authoritative and trustworthy guides to the scholarship that defines the field. We only have these 4 subject areas: Business & Management; Philosophy; Political Science; and Religion.
Gale eBooks
A collection of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Credo Reference Search Box

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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.

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Religious Studies 308: Special Topics - "Religious Freedom"

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