Religious Studies Databases

Project funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. and acts to preserve and improve access to quantitative data on American religion. Includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations).

Index to periodicals, research in ministry, book reviews in religion and Methodist reviews. 1949-present. Updated semi-annually. Includes online versions of the entire runs of a core collection of more than fifty significant scholarly periodicals in the field of religion, most of which go back to 1949.

Includes citations to articles published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers. 1981-present.

The Center at Boston College is dedicated to the growth of new and mutually enriching relationships between Christians and Jews. This website offers educational and dialogical aids, theological articles, official documents, and program information.

This resource brings together several encyclopedias, dictionaries, concordances and other reference sources along with over 3,000 scholarly articles and book chapters, hundreds of source documents and maps and links to other authoritative Web sites to provide thorough coverage of current and historical Islam.

The Institute conducts research on economic, social, and political issues in California. Because of its strengths in ethnic studies and immigration, this site is especially useful for the Local Religion Project.