DELCAT is the online catalog of the University of Delaware. Use DELCAT to search for books, journals, media and other materials in the library collection. The catalog may be searched using three types of searches: Basic, Advanced and Common Command Language. For more information on DELCAT, go to the Quick Guide to DELCAT located on the catalog HELP screen.
Two major subject headings to search world religions in DELCAT are religions or religion.
Keywords to search include:
Faith
Global Religions
World Religions
Specific names of religions (e.g., Islam, Buddhism, Christianity)
Overview
Adams, Charles Joseph, ed. A Reader's Guide to the Great Religions. New York: Free Press, 1977.
Location: Morris Library (BL80.2B .A33 1977)
Comprised of articles on primary religious divisions.
Ballow, Robert Oleson. The Bible of the World. New York: Viking Press, 1939.
Location: Morris Library (BL70 .B35)
Bowker, John. World Religions. New York: DK Pub, 1997.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref BL82 .B68 1997)
Clearly presented and well illustrated overview of religions from ancient to native and includes maps, chronology and further reading.
Juergensmeyer, Mark. Global Religions: An Introduction. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2003.
Location: Morris Library (BL80.3 G56 2003)
General Reference Sources
Bowker, John, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref BL31 .O94x 1997)
Cookson, Catharine, ed. Encyclopedia of Religious Freedom. New York: Routledge,
2003.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref BV741 .E47 2003)
This volume, more textbook than encyclopedia, covers seven major elements of religious freedom.
Encyclopedia of Creation Myths. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO,
1994.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref BL325 C7 L44 1994)
A comparative study of various narratives that describe the original ordering of the universe.
Encyclopedia of Religion. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1987.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref BL31 E46 1987)
The purpose is to look at the history of religions in an historical and systematic (comparative, psychological, sociological, etc.) manner to arrive at the nature of religion.
Religious Holidays and Calendars: An Encyclopedia Handbook. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 1998.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref CE6 .R45 1998)
World Christian Encyclopedia: A Comparative Survey of Churches and Religions
in the Modern World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref BR157 .W67 2001)
Zehavi, A.M. Handbook of the World's Religions. New York: Watts, 1973.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref BL80.2 Z43)
This introduction to the subject of world religions offers details and access to basic information about the organized religions of the world.
Comprehensive database of more than 8,000 journals covering the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subjects. Most of the journals are in full text.
Bibliographic database covering the world's scholarly literature in history (excluding the United States and Canada), with some links to full text. Historical Abstracts includes article abstracts and bibliographic citations of books and dissertations on the history of the world, except the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present.
The Journals Database is a bibliography of approximately 230,000 articles and reviews drawn from over 500 medieval and Renaissance journal titles. The Books Database (under construction) is a bibliography of monographs, material published in monographs, and collected essays pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and
related fields. Corresponds to the print publication Philosopher's
Index (Library
Annex B1B .A1P53).
Provides access to the full text of over 100 journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics published by The John Hopkins University Press and other publishers.
Religion Index One: Periodicals. Evanston, IL: American Theological Library Association, 1977-1999
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref BL1B .A47)
Continuation of Index to Religious Periodical Literature (1949-1977).
Religion Index Two: Multi-Author Works. Evanston, IL: American Theological
Association, 1970-1997
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref BL1B .A471)
A series which indexes separately published works which are the collections of works of more than three authors. The publications may be festchriften prepared or collected in honor of scholars or events, conference proceedings, or issues of regularly or irregularly published series or annuals.
Bibliography
Johnston, William M. Recent Reference Books in Religion: A Guide for Students,
Scholars, Researchers, Buyers & Readers. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn
Publishers, 1998.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z7751 .J65x 1998)
This source incorporates a schema by dividing reference books into twenty-two types. The cutoff date for inclusion of new titles is 1995.
Online access to citations and abstracts for every title in the Dissertations
Abstracts database. The database includes citations for materials ranging from
the first U.S. dissertation, acceped in 1861, to those accepted as recently as
last semester. Some 100,000 dissertations have been digitized and are available
in full text. Those University of Delaware dissertations which have been digitized
are free to University of Delaware faculty, students, and staff.
