LibGuides: GU-Q: THEO: Summer Semester 2024: Home

Library Services

This guide is designed to help you find the best resources for your assignments for the courses: "Liberation Theologies on the US" & Human Images in World Religions"

Consultations

Drop by my office (1B15, Library 1st floor), book an appointment with me, or send me an email (pt491@georgetown.edu) to arrange for an individual consultation. I can help you locate academic and scholarly materials for your assignments. d

Working Hours

Librarian: I am available from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Sunday - Thursday.

Library: Working Hours

Reference Sources

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text online versions of general and subject dictionaries and encyclopedias.

Encyclopedia of Religion
Call Number: BL31 .E46 2005
Publication Date: 2005
Presents a cross-cultural approach that emphasizes religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture.
Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements
Call Number: BL80.3 .E539 2006
Publication Date: 2004
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Cults, Sects, and World Religions by Alvin J. Schmidt
Call Number: BL31 .M295 2006
Publication Date: 2006
Up-to-date, well-documented, comprehensive coverage of cults, sects, and world religions, from the historical to the contemporary
Milestone Documents of World Religions
Call Number: BL31 .M56 2011
Publication Date: 2011
The set covers all of the world's major religions, from Christianity and Islam to Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as other religious traditions. Among the documents included in the set are key writings from sacred texts such as the Bible, Koran
Religion and American Cultures [3 Volumes]
Call Number: BL2525 .R448 2003
Publication Date: 2003
Religion and violence: an encyclopedia of faith and conflict from antiquity to the present
Publication Date: 2011
Science, Religion and Society
Publication Date: 2011

Encyclopaedia of Islam (EI2) This link opens in a new window
The major scholarly encyclopedia in Islamic & Middle Eastern studies. This is a multi-volume work containing signed articles on all aspects of the Islamic world: religious, biographical, historical, and social.
Short bibliographies of classical works accompany signed articles. Many articles in the new editions (EI2 & EI3) have been revised and updated. The second edition is now complete. See Transliteration table for Brill OnlineTransliteration table for Brill Online to see how words in Arabic & other non-roman script languages are romanized.

The first edition, now published as E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936, is also useful. Sister titles: Encyclopaedia of Islam Three (EI3), Encyclopaedia Islamica (in progress), Encyclopedia of the Qur'an.

All Brill encyclopedias (EI2, EI3, Ency. of the Qur'an, Ency. Islamica, Ency. of Women & Islamic Cultures, Ency. of Jews in the Islamic World, etc.) can be searched at one time by selecting "Related Publications" on the search page.
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE (EI3) This link opens in a new window
Newest edition of Ency. of Islam (still in progress). Edited by Gudrun Kramer, et al.
"with new articles reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship... The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world."
All Brill encyclopedias (EI2, EI3, Ency. of the Qur'an, Ency. Islamica, Ency. of Women & Islamic Cultures, Ency. of Jews in the Islamic World, etc.) can be searched at one time by selecting "Related Publications" on the search page.
See Transliteration table for Brill Online to see how words in Arabic & other non-roman script languages are romanized.
Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an (EQ) This link opens in a new window
Almost 1,000 entries cover the concepts, personalities, place names, and cultural history of the Qur'an. Includes extended essays on the most important themes of Qur'anic studies. Print edition complete in 6 vols.
Call number:
LAU Ref Stacks BP133 .E53 2001
See Transliteration table for Brill Online to see how Arabic (etc.) words are romanized. Continuously updated in electronic version. Sister titles: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Encyclopaedia Islamica.