Religious Studies
Guide to key sources for research in Religion
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries - Christianity
Core:
- New Catholic Encyclopedia 2nd ed.
-- also available in print - Call Number: BX841 .N48 2003 | Location - Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
- Note print only version of the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (location) provides longer articles and more extensive bibliographies
Call Number: BR95 .O8 2005
Other Examples:
- Acta Sanctorum- "electronic version of the complete printed text of Acta Sanctorum, from the edition published in sixty-eight volumes by the Société des Bollandistes in Antwerp and Brussels. It is a collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organised according to each saint's feast day, and runs from the two January volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940."
- Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions
Call Number: BV 3700 B53 1998 | Location - Butler's Lives of the Saints (12 vols)
Call Number: BX 4654 B79 | Location - Coptic Encyclopedia (8 vols)
Call Number: BX 130.5 C66 1991 | Location - Dictionnaire d'Archaeologie Chretienne et de Liturgie (15 vols in 30)
- also have print copy: Call Number: BR 95 C3 1907 | Location
- Articles on art, institutions, liturgy and rites of the early Church up to the time of Charlemagne - Encyclopedia of Early Christianity (2 vols)
Call Number: BR 162.2 .E52 1997 | Location - Encyclopedia of Monasticism
Call Number: BX 2420 .E53 2000 | Location - Encyclopedia of the Early Church (2 vols)
Call Number:BR 66.5 D5913 1992 | Location - Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
- Encyclopedia of Christianity (4 vols)
Call Number: BR 95 E8913 | Location - Jesuit Historiography Online - articles on Jesuit history wordwide with extensive references
- New Handbook of Christian Theologians
Call Number: BT 28 N 48 1996 | Location - The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (13 vols) - (available online through Christian Classics Ethereal Library) - also selected volumes available open access through HathiTrust
Call Number: BR 95 S34 1949 | Location - see also the dictionary edition - Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
- Oxford Dictionary of Popes
- Oxford Dictionary of Saints
- Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
- also available in print - Reallexikon fur Antike und Christentum (19 vols)
Call Number: BR 95 K42 1950 | Location - Who's Who in Christianity
Handbooks - Christianity
Lexicons and Language Dictionaries
LBG (Lexicon zur byzantinischen Gräzität) - "The LBG is the foremost lexicographical resource in Byzantine Studies mainly covering the period from the 4th to the 15th century A.D. taken from more than 3,000 texts. Seven fascicles have appeared to date, with one more scheduled to appear in 2016. When completed the dictionary will consist of more than 2,000 printed pages, containing approx. 80,000 lemmata."
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