Resource Guide:
World Religions and Mythology
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Religion
- Judaism
- Christianity
- Confucianism
- Daoism
- Islam
- Taoism
- Orthodoxy
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe
- Religion and Theology
- Religion East and West
- Adventist Review
- Al-Tawhid: A Quarterly Journal of Islamic Thought and Culture
- Mennonite Life
- Hebraica
- Hindu - Christian Studies Bulletin
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Great Religions of the World | BL 80.2 .N347 |
| Empires of Faith : The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700 | D 121 .S27 2011 |
| Sacred and Secular : Religion and Politics Worldwide | BL 65 .P7 N67 2011 |
| The Hindus : An Alternative History | BL 1151.3 .D66 2009 |
| The Saint and the Sultan : the Crusades, Islam, and Francis of Assisi's Mission of Peace | BX 4700 .F6 M675 2009 |
| The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion | BL 48 .G3413 1997 |
| Faith and Freedom: Women's Human Rights in the Muslim World | HQ 1170 .F35 1995 |
| Religious Traditions of the World: A Journey Through Africa, Mesoamerica, North America, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhi | BL 80.2 .R448 1993 |