General Religion

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Religions
• Individual religions (e.g., Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc.)
• Monotheism
• Polytheism
• Religion
• Sects
• Cults

Contents in this guide:

Indexes and Abstracts
Dictionaries
Encyclopedias
Biographical Sources
Directories and Statistics
Atlases
Bibliographies

Guides to Research

Research Guide to Religious Studies. John F. Wilson & Thomas P. Slavens.
Mugar Reference XBL 41 W5 1982
An introduction to religious scholarship and reference works.

The Religious Right: A Reference Handbook. Glenn H. Utter & John W. Storey.
Mugar Reference XBR 526 .U88 1995

A guide to doing research on the religious right, with brief articles and lists of additional resources.

Keyguide to Information Sources on World Religion. Jean Holm.
Mugar Reference XZ 7833 H66 1992

This source omits Biblical studies and mainstream Christian theology and history. Selective listing of sources with helpful annotations on Bahai, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism,Taoism, and Zoroastrianism.

Religious Information Sources: A Worldwide Guide. J. Gordon Melton & Michael A. Koszegi.
Mugar Reference XZ 7751 M45 1992

Geographical listing of sources, guides to archives, and other material.