Subject Guide - Religious Studies
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eBooks
Visit the eBooks page for links to thousands of ebooks from several providers. RPCC Library's ebook collections are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Students will be prompted to login with their Library User ID or Alt. ID, and PIN to access these ebooks from off-campus.
Databases
Academic Search Complete: Articles from 5,500+ journals and other sources, multiple subject areas.
Gale In Context: Biography: Biographies, magazine articles, images, and website links for more than 900,000 people.
Britannica Online Academic Edition: A full-text encyclopedia with video, maps, & more.
Films On Demand: Academic and Archival Films across all disciplines & Newsreels Collections.
Gale Ebooks: Reference sources for just about any research topic.
JSTOR: The Scholarly Archive: articles from scholarly journals in the arts & sciences, humanities, business, etc.
Oxford Reference: Full-text general and subject-specific reference sources.
Religion and Philosophy Collection: Covers over 300 journals on religious history, theology, and philosophy.
World Book Advanced: Full-text encyclopedia, atlas, dictionary, images, and more.
Streaming Videos
The Black Church: This is Our story, This is Our Song
Religion in Contemporary Society
Browse more religion videos in the Films on Demand database.
Special Topics
Web Resources
Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) Provides quantitative data on American religion, including awesome maps of religious affiliations
BBC: Religions, this section of BBC: Religion & Ethics provides background information on numerous religious beliefs.
BBC: Religion & Ethics offers articles and multi-media resources on topics and controversies in religion and ethics from around the world.
The Bible, on Bartleby.com: Great Books Online, offers the American Bible Society’s KJV, 1999 edition with full-text searching, tables of contents and a quick verse finder, in addition to other related resources.
Discovering Sacred Texts from the British Library “provides access to the richness and diversity of the texts from some of the world’s greatest faiths.” It includes videos, digitized sacred texts, images, history, and more.
LGBTQ Religious Archives Network: An initiative which preserves history and encourages scholarly study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) religious movements around the world.
Official Denominational Web Sites from the Hartford Institute for Religion Research
Pew Research Center - Religion: Find nonpartisan information on global issues.
PRRI: Public Religion Research Institute conducts "independent research at the intersection of religion, culture, and public policy."
Shelf Resources (RPCC Library - Gonzales campus)
Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers (print issues)
Browse Books, DVDs, and Other Shelf Resources by Shelf Number
BL 1 to BL 2790 – Religion. Mythology.
BM 1 to BM 990 – Judaism.
BP 1 to BP 610 – Islam.
BQ 1 to BQ 9800 – Buddhism.
BR 1 to BR 1725 – Christianity.
BS 1 to BS 2970 – The Bible.
BX 1 to BX 9999 – Christian Denominations.
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