Research Guides: A Guide to Religious Studies: Online Bibliographies

Online Bibliographies

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The following Web pages are resources recommended by the Washington University Religious Studies program. They were originally hyperlinked from the program's Web pages but will disappear from there after redesign. At the progam's request, they are archived here.

Buddhism

A Bibliography of Bibliographies on Buddhism
150 bibliographies on Buddhism

Chinese Religions

Introduction to Classical Chinese Historiography
a research guide compiled by Benjamin A. Elman, Professor of East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University
Bibliography of Books on Daoism
maintained by James Miller and the Daoist Studies Group of the American Academy of Religion (AAR)

Christianity

Bibliographies for Theology
New Testament (Gospels, Paul, Historical Jesus and Christology), Early Christianity (Patristics -Ignatius, Origen, Athanasius, Cyril of Alexandria, Augustine, Antony, Cyril of Jerusalem and Early Christian Worship, Melania and Women in the Early Church), Medieval Christianity, the Reformation, spirituality and mysticism, sacraments and liturgy and 20th century theology)
EarlyChurch.org.uk
extensive bibliographies on subjects covering the early church to the rise of the medieval papacy (c. 600CE)
BiblicalStudies.org.uk
extensive bibliographies on each book of the Bible, as well as on hermeneutics, archaeology, criticism, language, etc. - in short almost everything connected with the Bible and its study
MedievalChurch.org.uk
extensive bibliographies on church history from the rise of the medieval papacy to the Reformation

South Asian Religions

Bibliographies on South Asian Topics
from Amir Khusrow to women's rights in India
South Asia Bibliographies
a collection of bibliographies covering South Asian social and political issues, literature, film, history, etc. from the University of Chicago
Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies Bibliography
a bibliography of the philosophical literature of India during its classical phase and the secondary material on this literature that is available (for the most part) in English. This site is an expanded version of the Bibliography which appeared as Volume I of Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies.

Islam

Islam: A Bibliography
books in English on Islam in general, Muhammad, The Qur’an, Shi‘i Islam, Sufism, jurisprudence, the arts, history, geographic regions and states, theology & philosophy, and miscellany

Judaism

Dead Sea Scrolls Bibliography
secondary literature from 1995 to the present, maintained by the Orion Center at the Hebrew University; updated weekly.
Hebrew Prophets
compiled by Dr. Victor Matthews

Topics

Gender and Religion

Bibliography on Women and Religion
by Susan Lau, University of Notre Dame. This version of the bibliography is arranged alphabetically by author's last name. You can search an index that includes all of the words in all of the alphabetical files by typing key words, dates, authors' names, or words from titles.
Diotima
materials for the study of women and gender in the ancient world (Greece, Rome, Judaism, and Christianity)
Gender Studies Bibliographies
compiled by Victor Matthews, professor of Religious Studies at Missouri State University; sections for: ancient Near East, Old Testament, Apocrypha/Pseudepigrapha, New Testament, Classical Studies, Rabbinic/Mishnaic Studies, Church History and Modern Studies

Religion and Science

Annotated Bibliography
by Keith B. Miller, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Geology. Kansas State University