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These databases will help you find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, books, book chapters, statistics, and more. If you are not sure of your topic, start with Academic Search Complete.
Academic Search Complete      Remote Access
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Start your search with this interdisciplinary database of journals and magazines with full text available for many. Other Interdisciplinary Databases may also be useful. Specific subject databases are below. Use the drop-down menu above to select other databases by title.

Catholic Periodical Literature Index      Remote Access
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Thousands of books and more than 100 journals concentrating on the Catholic religion are indexed. No abstracts or full text.

Gale Virtual Reference Library      Remote Access
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Search multiple encyclopedias and other reference works with a single search including the New Catholic Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia of Religion

Religion and Philosophy Collection      Remote Access
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This database provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies.


American Religion Data Archive
Quantitative data sets for the study of American religion.

Bible Browser
Search the full text of the Bible; choose from King James, Revised and Vulgate versions

Bible Gateway
Search terms and topics in the Bible in several different languages.

Bible Tutor
Search for information on people in the Bible, overviews of the books of the Bible, dates and places.

Biblical Studies on the Web
Brings together materials on biblical theology and exegesis, including commentaries, Bible resources, concordances, dictionaries, journals and web links.

Book of Common Prayer
Several versions of the BCP are available as well as information on its historical development.

Calvin's Commentaries
Commentaries by John Calvin, arranged by books of the Bible; a work in progress.

Catechism of the Catholic Church
"This on-line version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church includes the corrections promulgated by Pope John Paul II on 8 September 1997."

Catholic Encyclopedia
An online edition of the 1907 Catholic Encyclopedia.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Arranged by books of the Bible.

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897.

Ecole Initiative: Creating a Hypertext Encyclopedia of Early Church history on the World Wide Web
Search or browse articles, images and timelines on early church history

Explanatory Notes on the Bible (John Wesley)
Organized by books of the Bible.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
This dictionary is from Hitchcock's New and Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible, by Roswell D. Hitchcock, New York: A. J. Johnson, 1874, c1869. It contains more than 2,500 Bible and Bible-related proper names and their meanings.

List of Popes
Complete list of Popes with links to biographical sketches and works written by the Popes.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
Search by book of the Bible and chapter.

Papal Encyclicals
Encyclicals from Pius XII (1929-1958), John XXIII (1958-1963), Paul VI (1963-1978), John Paul II (1978-present), browsable and searchable

Papal Encyclicals Online
Fulltext of many papal encyclicals

Quran Browser
Search the full text of the Quran; choose between versions of three translators

WorldWide Study Bible
Links to "commentaries, meditations, sermons, pictures, word studies, musical settings, historical or archeologic notes -- anything that is relevant" about the Bible. Arranged by book of the Bible, the page indicates that " contributions may not be reviewed or selected for theology or quality; a diversity of theological viewpoints will likely be represented."

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