Subject guide: religion

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Find articles

• ATLA Religion
  American Theological Library Association's index for religious and theological literature. Full-text available for over 50 journals.
• Catholic Periodical & Literature Index
  Over 300,000 entries from Catholic books, journals, magazines, newspapers, and papal documents.
• JSTOR
  Full-text archive of scholarly articles from journals covering religious topics, such as Islamic, Buddhist, Jewish and Christian studies.
• New Testament Abstracts
  Provides coverage of journal articles and scholarly books on the New Testament and its historical milieu.
• Old Testatment Abstracts
  Content from over 450 journals with topics on antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more.

Off-campus access to these databases is easy. When prompted, sign in with your SMU network/email user name and password. For problems, call 360.486.8803 or email us.

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Find books

• Use the O'Grady Library catalog to find books.
• Use Summit to find books that the O'Grady Library doesn't own.
• Use ILLiad to request books that neither O'Grady Library or Summit owns.

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Websites

• ARDA: The Association of Religion Data Archives
• Bible Gateway
• Blue Letter Bible (Top Pick)
• Holy Land Maps
• Internet Sacred Text Archive
• Official Vatican Website
• Women and Theology

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Reference

Online reference

• Routledge Religion Resource
• Encyclopedia Judaica

Print reference

• Find Religions of the World
• Find Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion
• Find Encyclopedia of Monasticism
• Find Contemporary American Religion
• Find The Encyclopedia of Judaism
• Find Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
• Find Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World
• Find Encyclopedia of Buddhism
• Find New Catholic Encyclopedia