Reference Sources in the Library:

The following is a select list of guides, companions, dictionaries, encyclopedias and other reference sources.  Most of the items listed here can be found on the Main floor of the R.P. Bell Library.

Reference Sources

General

Eliade, Mircea et al., eds.  The Encyclopedia of Religion.  16 vols.  New York : Macmillan, c1986.  BL 31 .E46 1986 REF

Ferngren, Gary B., et al., eds.  The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition : An Encyclopedia.New York : Garland, 2000.  BL 245 .H57 2000 REF 

Hinnells, John R., ed.  A New Handbook of Living Religions.  Oxford [England] : Blackwell, 1997.  BL 80.2 .H275 1997 REF 

Levinson, David.  Religion : A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia.  Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, c1996.  BL 80.2 .L463 1996 REF 

Taylor, Mark C., ed.  Critical Terms for Religious Studies.  Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.  BL 31 .C75 1998 REF 

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Bible  

Barton, John, ed.  The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation.  Cambridge; New York : Cambridge UP, 1998.   BS 511.2 .C35 1998 REF 

Barton, John and John Muddiman, eds.  Oxford Bible Commentary.  New York: Oxford UP, 2001.  BS 491.3 .O94 2001 REF 

Bowker, John Westerdale.  The Complete Bible Handbook.  New York : DK Pub., 1998.  BS 475.2 .B68 1998 REF 

Coogan, Michael D., ed. The New Oxford Annotated Bible: With the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford UP, c2001. BS 191.5 .A1 2001 N49

Dunn, James D.G., ed. Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003. BS 491.3 .E37 2003 REF

Freedman, David Noel, et al., eds.  Anchor Bible Dictionary.  6 vols.  New York: Doubleday, c1992.  BS 440 A54 1992  REF 

Freedman, David Noel, et al., eds.  Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible.  Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, 2000.  BS 440 .E44 2000 REF

Kee, Howard Clark, et al.  The Cambridge Companion to the Bible.  Cambridge; New York: Cambridge UP, 1997.  BS 475.2 .C26 1997 REF

Kroeger, Catherine Clark & Mary J. Evans, eds. The IVP Women's Bible Commentary. Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c2002. BS 521.4 .I97 2002 REF

Mays, James L., et al., eds.  The HarperCollins Bible Commentary.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, c2000.  BS 491.2 .H37 2000 REF

Newsom, Carol A., and Sharon H. Ringe, eds. The Women's Bible Commentary.  London: SPCK; Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992.  BS 491.2 W66 1992 REF

Rogerson, John, ed.  The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible.  Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001.  BS 445 .O94 2001 REF

Ticschler, Nancy. Men and Women of the Bible: A Reader's Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. BS 571 .T57 2002 REF

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Christianity

Bowden, John, ed. Encyclopedia of Christianity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. BR 95 .E47 2005 REF

Cooper, J.C., ed.  Dictionary of Christianity.  Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1996. BR 95 .D47 1996 REF

Di Berardino, Angelo, ed.  Encyclopedia of the Early Church.  Trans. Adrian Walford.  2 vols.  New York: Oxford UP, 1991- .  BR 66.5 D5813 1992 REF

Fahlbusch, Erwin, et al., eds.  The Encyclopedia of Christianity.  Grand Rapids: Eerdmans ; Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1999-  .  BR 95 .E8913 1999 REF

Ferguson, Everett, ed.  Encyclopedia of Early Christianity.  New York: Garland Pub., 1990. BR 162.2 E53 1990 REF

Hart, Trevor A., et al., eds.  The Dictionary of Historical Theology.  Carlisle, Cumbria, U.K.: Paternoster Press; Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans Pub., c2000.  BT 21.2 .D53 2000 REF

Hastings, Adrian, et al., eds.  The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought.  Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000.  BR 95 .O77 2000 REF

McGrath, Alister, ed.  The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Thought.  Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 1993. BR 95 .B58 1993 REF

New Catholic Encyclopedia. 2nd ed. Detroit: Thomson/Gale; Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America, 2003- . BX 841 .N44 2003 REF NEW!

Sunquist, Scott, David Wu Chusing, and John Chew Hiang Chea, eds. A Dictionary of Asian Christianity. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans, 2001. BR 1065 .D52 2001 REF

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Islam

Esposito, John L., et al., eds.  The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World.  4 vols.  New York : Oxford UP, 1995. DS 35.53 .O95 1995 REF

Gibb, H.A.R., et. al., eds.  The Encyclopaedia of Islam.  New ed.  Leiden : E. J. Brill, c1960 - .  DS 37 .E523 [BOOK STACKS]

Kassis, Hanna E.  A Concordance of the Qur'an. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1983.  BP 133 K37 1983 REF

Martin, Richard C., ed. Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference USA : Thomson/Gale, c2004. BP 40 .E525 2004 REF

McAuliffe, Jane Dammen, ed. Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an. 5 vols. Leiden : Brill, 2001- . BP 133 .E53 2001

Nanji, Azim.  The Muslim Almanac : A Reference Work on the History, Faith, Culture and Peoples of Islam.  Detroit : Gale Research, c1995.  BP 40 .M83 1996 REF

Renard, John. Historical dictionary of Sufism. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2005. BP 188.48 .R46 2005

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Judaism

Encyclopaedia Judaica.  16 vols.  Jerusalem: Encyclopaedia Judaica; [New York]: Macmillan, [c1971-72, v. 1, c1972].  DS 102.8 E496 1974 REF

Solomon, Norman.  Historical dictionary of Judaism. Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, 1998.  BM 50 .S65 1998 REF

Terry, Michael, ed.  Reader's Guide to Judaism.  Chicago ; London : Fitzroy Dearborn, c2000.  BM 50 .R43 2000 REF

Werblowsky, R.J. Zwi and Geoffrey Wigoder, eds. The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion.  New York : Oxford University Press, 1997   BM 50 .O94 1997 REF

Wigoder, Geoffrey, Fred Skolnik and Shmuel Himelsteineds, eds. The New Encyclopedia of Judaism. New York: New York University Press, c2002. BM 50 .E63 2002 REF

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Eastern Religions

Buswell, Robert E., ed. Encyclopedia of Buddhism. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference USA/Thomson/Gale, 2004. BQ 128 .E62 2004 REF

Craig, Edward, ed. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 10 vols. London; New York, Routledge, 1998. B 51 .R68 1998 REF

Dallapiccola, Anna L. Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend. New York, NY: Thames & Hudson, 2002. BL1105 .D35 2002 REF

Dogra, R. C., and Gobind Singh Mansukhani.  Encyclopaedia of Sikh religion and culture.  New Delhi : Vikas Pub. House, 1995.  BL 2017.3 D64 1995 REF

Keown, Damien, ed. A dictionary of Buddhism. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003. BQ 130 .K46 2003

Kohn, Michael H., trans.  The Shambhala Dictionary of Buddhism and Zen. Boston: Shambhala ; New York:  Random House, 1991. BQ 130  .L49213 1991 REF

Pas, Julian F., and Man Kam Leung.  Historical Dictionary of Taoism.  Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1998.  BL 1923 .P37 1998 REF

Picken, Stuart D.B. Historical Dictionary of Shinto. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2002. BL 2216.1 .P53 2002 REF

Prebish, Charles S.  Historical Dictionary of Buddhism. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, c1993.  BQ 130 .P74 1993 REF

Sullivan, Bruce M.  Historical Dictionary of Hinduism.  Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1997.  BL 1105 .S95 1997 REF

Wiley, Kristi L. Historical dictionary of Jainism. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2004. BL 1303 .W45 2004 

Yao, Xinzhong, ed. RoutledgeCurzon Encyclopedia of Confucianism. 2 vols. London: Routledge, 2003. BL 1840 .R68 2003 REF

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Ethics

Becker, Lawrence C., and Charlotte B. Becker, eds. Encyclopedia of Ethics.  2 vols.  New York: Garland Pub., 1992.  BJ 63 E55 1992 REF

Carr, Brian, and Indira Mahalingam, eds.  Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy.  London: Routledge, c1997.  B 121 .C66 1997 REF

Chadwick, Ruth, ed.  Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics.  4 vols.  San Diego: Academic Press, c1998.  BJ 63 .E44 1998 REF

Craig, Edward, ed.  Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.  10 vols.  London; New York : Routledge, 1998.  B 51 .R68 1998 REF

Emmanuel, Steven M., ed. The Blackwell Guide to the Modern Philosophers : From Descartes to Nietzsche.
Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.  B 791 .B53 2000 REF

Gorlin, Rena A., ed.  Codes of Professional Responsibility : Ethics Standards in Business, Health, and Law.  4th ed.  Washington, D.C. : Bureau of National Affairs, c1999.  BJ 1725 .C57 1999 REF

Leaman, Oliver, ed.  Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 2001.  B 121 .E53 2001 REF

Michie, Jonathan, ed.  Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences.  London; Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, c2001.  H 41 .R417 2001 REF

Smelser, Neil J., and Paul B. Baltes, eds.  International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.  26 vols.  Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 2001.  H 41 .I58 2001 REF

Terkel, Susan Neiburg, and R. Shannon Duval, eds. Encyclopedia of Ethics.  New York: Facts On File, c1999.  BJ 63 .E56 1999 REF

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Mythology

Bonnefoy, Yves, ed.  Mythologies.  2 vols.  Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1991. BL 311 D513 1991 REF

Cotterell, Arthur.  A Dictionary of World Mythology.  Oxford : Oxford UP, 1986.  BL 303 .C66 1986 REF

Coulter, Charles Russell and Patricia Turner.  Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities.   Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 1999.  BL 782 .C67 2000 REF

Knappert, Jan.  The Encyclopaedia of Middle Eastern Mythology and Religion.  Shaftesbury, Dorset : Element, 1993.  BL 303 .K63 1993 REF

Leeming, David Adams.  A Dictionary of Asian mythology.  New York : Oxford UP, 2001.  BL 1005 .L46 2001 REF

Leeming, David Adams and Margaret Adams Leeming. An Encyclopedia of Creation Myths.  Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c1994.  BL 325 C7 L44 1994 REF

Lurker, Manfred.  A Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, Devils and Demons.  Trans. G.L. Campbell.  London:  Routledge and K. Paul, 1987.  BL 303 .L8713 1987 REF

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Sacred Places

Brockman, Norbert C.  Encyclopedia of Sacred Places.  Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1997.  BL 580 .B76 1997 REF

Wilson, Colin.  The Atlas of Holy Places & Sacred Sites.  New York : DK Pub., 1996.  BL 580 .W55 1996 REF

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Women and Religion

Benowitz, June Melby.  Encyclopedia of American Women and Religion.  Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1998.  BL 2525 .B45 1998 REF

Kroeger, Catherine Clark & Mary J. Evans, eds. The IVP Women's Bible Commentary. Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c2002. BS 521.4 .I97 2002 REF

Young, Serinity, ed.  Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion.  2 vols.  New York : Macmillan Reference USA, c1999.  BL 458 .E53 1999 REF

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Miscellaneous 

Brasher, Brenda E., ed. Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism. New York: Routledge, 2001.
BL 238 .E63 2001 REF

Chryssides, George D.  Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements.  Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2001.  BP 601 .C47 2001 REF

The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism.  3 vols.  New York : Continuum, c1998.   BL 501 .E53 1998 REF

Fabella, Virginia and R.S. Sugirtharajah, eds.  Dictionary of Third World Theologies.  Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, c2000.  BR 95 .D486 2000 

Fenn, Richard K., ed.  The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion.  Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2001.  BL 60 .B53 2001 REF

Haas, Peter J., and William H. Brackney, eds. Human Rights and the World's Major Religions. 5 vols. Westport: Praeger, 2005. BL 65 .H78 H8595 2005

Hillerbrand, Hans J., ed.   The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation.  4 vols.  New York : Oxford UP, 1996. BR 302.8 .O93 1996 REF

Johnston, William M., ed.  Encyclopedia of Monasticism.  2 vols.  Chicago ; London : Fitzroy Dearborn, c2000.  BL 631 .E63 2000 REF

Lewis, James R.  Cults in America: A Reference Handbook.  Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c1998.  BL 2525 .L486 1998 REF

Lewis, James R.  Peculiar Prophets: A Biographical Dictionary of New Religions.  St. Paul, Minn. : Paragon House, 1999. 
BL 72 .L48 1999 REF 

Quinn, Philip L. and Charles Taliaferro, eds. A Companion to Philosophy of Religion.  Cambridge, MA. : Blackwell, c1999.  BL 51 .C634 1999 REF 

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Writing Guides

Avery, Heather.  Thinking it Through: A Practical Guide to Academic Essay Writing.  Rev. 2nd ed.  Peterborough: Academic Skills Centre, Trent University, 1995.  LB 2369 T45 1995 REF

Buckley, Johanne.  Fit to Print: The Canadian Student's Guide to Essay Writing.  4th ed.  Toronto: Harcourt Brace Canada, 1998.  LB 2369 B83 1998 REF

Colin, Norman.  Writing Essays: A Short Guide.  2nd ed.  Kingston: Dept. of English, Queens University, 1987.  PE 1471 N67 1987 REF

Gibaldi, Joseph.  MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.  6th ed.  New York: MLA, 2003.  LB 2369 G53 2003 REF (Previous editions are also available.)

Harvey, Gordon.  Writing with Sources: A Guide for Students.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998.  PE 1478 H37 1998 REF

Northey, Margot.  Making Sense: A Student's Guide to Writing and Style.  3rd ed.  Don Mills: Oxford UP, 1993.  LB 2369 N67 1993 REF

SEE ALSO Research & Citation Guides

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