Paideia Resources Section 21

Print Reference Resources

American National Biography

Reference CT 213 .A68 1999

Provides biographical information of over 17,400 men and women who have influenced United States history. Excludes living people.
Contemporary American Religion

Reference BL 2525 .C65 2000

Over 500 entries cover leaders, traditions, practices, beliefs, movements, ideas, and symbols in the diverse religious life of Americans in the U.S. in the early 21st century.
Encyclopedia of Christianity

Ref BR95 .E8913 1999

Describing Christianity in its global context, the Encyclopedia is a fully international work, with articles written by scholars from many countries and cultural backgrounds. Separate articles for every continent and for over 170 countries present both the history and the current situation of the Christian faith in all its rich spiritual and theological diversity around the world.
Encyclopedia of Protestantism

Ref BX4811.3 .E53 2004

more than 1,000 lengthy signed articles, each with a bibliography.
Encyclopedia of Religion

Reference BL31 .E46 2005 v.1-15

Contains articles on all aspects of Religion and Religious Studies. Also available online.
Encyclopedia of religion in American politics

Ref BL2525 .E52 1999

This encyclopedia is an A-to-Z listing of a broad range of topics related to religious issues and politics, ranging from the religious freedom sought by the Pilgrims in the 1620s to the rise of the religious right in the 1980s.
Encyclopedia of the American religious experience : studies of traditions and movements

Ref BL2525 .E53 1988

This new encyclopedia is composed of 106 essays (mostly fourteen to sixteen large double-column pages in length, with some as long as twenty-eight pages) ranging over a broad spectrum of themes, traditions, movements, and preoccupations of “the American religious experience.”
New Catholic Encyclopedia

Reference BX841 .N44 2003 v.1-15

Contains articles covering all aspects of Catholicism.
Religion and American Cultures: An Encyclopedia of Traditions, Diversity, and Popular Expressions

Reference BL 2525 .R448 2003

Volume 1 includes information about specific religions, including Islam, Native American traditions, and Hinduism. Volume 2 treats contemporary and popular cultural aspects of religion.

Databases and Indexes


ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials	Citations for journal articles, essays and book reviews published 1949 – present. Full text for over 200 journals from ATLA, plus some full text from other journals.	More Info

General Online Databases


Academic Search Complete	An excellent starting point for finding articles in magazines and journals, mostly from fairly recent time periods. Some full-text.	More Info
JSTOR	A full-text collection of over 1,000 major scholarly journals. Excludes the most recent 2 to 5 years for most journals.	More Info
Project Muse	Full text access is available to over 380 journals in the humanities and social sciences.	More Info

Internet Resources


American Jesus ebooks	A webpage containing links to ebook versions of 21 of the books from the bibliography of American Jesus.	More Info

Print Indexes

Encyclopedia of the historical Jesus

Ref BT303.2 .E56 2008

This “Encyclopedia” brings together the vast array of historical research into the reality of the man, the teachings, the acts, and the events ascribed to him that have served as the foundational story of one of the world’s central religions.