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Chicago Manual of Style Online
- Falvey’s short introduction and overview to the Chicago-Style Notes and Bibliography System which is most commonly used in the humanities.
- Notes and Bibliography: Sample Citations (Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide)
- Notes and Bibliography Chapter: Table of Contents
- Author-Date References: Sample Citations (Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide)
- Author-Date References Chapter: Table of Contents
- The Chicago Manual of Style Online: Table of Contents
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The Library has a large collection of reference works, most of them in electronic format, but some classics are still only available in print. Use the custom search box below to search across most of the Library's electronic encyclopedias, handbooks, and companions.
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Chicago Manual of Style Online, 17th ed.The 17th edition of the Manual is the most current. The online version includes a Citation Quick Guide with examples. The Library's website offers a short introduction and overview to the Notes and Bibliography System commonly used in the humanities.
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E-ZBorrow and Interlibrary LoanInterlibrary loans are only available for books and journals which are not owned by Falvey. The E-ZBorrow service can be used for books which the library owns, but which are currently checked out. E-ZBorrow books are provided by a local library network and tend to arrive faster than interlibrary loans.
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Falvey Library CatalogThe Library's catalog enables patrons to search & browse Falvey Memorial Library’s collection of books, journals, audio/video materials, electronic resources and more.
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Journal FinderUse this link to locate journals or specific articles that may be available via Falvey Memorial Library.
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Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press)Contains the complete text of the second edition of the 20-volume Dictionary. Presents authoritative information on words in the English language, including their form, definition, history, pronunciation, and etymology. Approximately 1,000 new and revised entries are added on a quarterly basis.
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Vocabulary for the Study of ReligionLeading dictionary in English offering an overview of terms essential to religious studies.
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WorldCat (FirstSearch)Presents a combined catalog of the catalogs of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. WorldCat highlights publications available at Villanova University. Other items can be requested via an inter-library loan request form.
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Concise Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church Concise Oxford dictionary of world religions Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed.Provides extensive facts and a detailed overview of Judaism, Jewish life and the contribution of Jews to world cultures from ancient to modern times. Source published in 2007. Online access via Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice Encyclopedia of Bioethics (Gale)Covers a wealth of topics on the ethics of health professions, animal research, population control and the environment. This work helps researchers to consider the impact of new scientific knowledge and its potential to harm or benefit present and future generations.
Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy (Gale)Examines the philosophical and ethical issues underlying contemporary and historical environmental issues, policies, and debates. Covers concepts, institutions, topics, events and people, including global warming, animal rights, environmental movements, alternative energy, green chemistry, industrial ecology, and eco-sabotage.
Encyclopedia of Human Development Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Gale)The Encyclopedia contains more than 2,100 entries including 1,000 biographical entries on major figures in philosophical thought throughout history.. Among the many topics covered are African, Islamic, Jewish, Russian, Chinese, and Buddhist philosophies; bioethics and biomedical ethics; art and aesthetics; epistemology; metaphysics; peace and war; social and political philosophy; the Holocaust; feminist thought; and much more.
Encyclopedia of Religion (Gale) Encyclopedia of Religious and Spiritual Development (SAGE) Encyclopedia of World Poverty Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception OnlineContains the most current state of knowledge on the origins and development of the Bible in the canons within Judaism and Christianity. It documents the history of biblical reception, not only in Christian churches and the Jewish Diaspora, but also in Islam, other non-Western religious traditions and movements. Source originally published 2010 and continuously updated. Online access via De Gruyter.
Human Rights EncyclopediaProvides a country-by-country analysis of over 175 nations and their approach to human rights, followed by detailed examinations of topics such as torture, slavery, asylum, genocide, hostages, indigenous peoples, freedom of the press, and the right to education.
New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd ed.Explores many branches of knowledge with an emphasis on the Catholic worldview, the practices, places and personalities of Catholicism, the teachings of the Catholic Church, as well as topical articles on the Bible, theology, ethics, and philosophy. Content is from the revised New Catholic Encyclopedia, and includes entries from supplemental volumes. Online access via Gale Virtual Reference Library.
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas New Pauly Online (advanced search)Electronic access to Brill´s New Pauly, Der Neue Pauly, and their supplements.
Oxford Dictionary of ByzantiumWith more than 5,000 entries by an international group of eminent historians, this is the standard research tool on 1,100 years of Byzantine history. Exhaustive in its coverage, entries on patriarchy and emperors coexist with entries on surgery, musical instruments, and the baking of bread, bringing to life this vastly important culture and empire, from the 4th century to the 15th.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt600 original articles written by leading scholars cover the ancient Egyptian civilization, from the pre-dynastic era to its eclipse in the seventh century CE. Topic covered include art, architecture, religion, language, literature, trade, politics, everyday social life and the culture of the court.
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and RomeOffers a comprehensive overview of the major cultures of the classical Mediterranean world -- Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman -- from the Bronze Age to the fifth century CE. It also covers the legacy of the classical world and its interpretation and influence in subsequent centuries.
Oxford Dictionary of the Bible, 2nd ed. Oxford encyclopedia of the ReformationA definitive source for information about the entire range of religious and social changes that altered the face of Europe in the sixteenth century, encompassing not only issues of church polity and theology but also developments in politics, economics, demographics, art and literature.
The Oxford guide to the historical reception of Augustine Explore reference resources in the library
Anchor Bible Dictionary
Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity
Brill's encyclopedia of Hinduism
Cambridge dictionary of Christianity
Creeds & confessions of faith in the Christian tradition
Dictionary of historical theology
Encyclopaedia of Islam
Encyclopedia of American Social Movements
Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism
Encyclopedia of Catholic devotions and practices
Encyclopedia of Catholic social thought, social science, and social policy
Encyclopedia of Christianity
Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States
Encyclopedia of ancient Christianity
Encyclopedia of fundamentalism
Encyclopedia of mission and missionaries
Encyclopedia of monasticism
Encyclopedia of religious and philosophical writings in late antiquity: pagan, Judaic, Christian
Hispanic American religious cultures
New dictionary of sacramental worship
New dictionary of saints : east and west
Oxford handbook of early Christian studies
Religion past & present : encyclopedia of theology and religion
Sacramentum mundi: an encyclopedia of theology
The Blackwell encyclopedia of modern Christian thought
The Coptic encyclopedia
The concise encyclopedia of the ethics of new technologies
The encyclopaedia of missions : descriptive, historical, biographical, statistical
Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization
The encyclopedia of religion and nature
World Christian encyclopedia : a comparative survey of churches and religions in the modern world / 2nd Ed.
Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity
Brill's encyclopedia of Hinduism
Cambridge dictionary of Christianity
Creeds & confessions of faith in the Christian tradition
Dictionary of historical theology
Encyclopaedia of Islam
Encyclopedia of American Social Movements
Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism
Encyclopedia of Catholic devotions and practices
Encyclopedia of Catholic social thought, social science, and social policy
Encyclopedia of Christianity
Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States
Encyclopedia of ancient Christianity
Encyclopedia of fundamentalism
Encyclopedia of mission and missionaries
Encyclopedia of monasticism
Encyclopedia of religious and philosophical writings in late antiquity: pagan, Judaic, Christian
Hispanic American religious cultures
New dictionary of sacramental worship
New dictionary of saints : east and west
Oxford handbook of early Christian studies
Religion past & present : encyclopedia of theology and religion
Sacramentum mundi: an encyclopedia of theology
The Blackwell encyclopedia of modern Christian thought
The Coptic encyclopedia
The concise encyclopedia of the ethics of new technologies
The encyclopaedia of missions : descriptive, historical, biographical, statistical
Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization
The encyclopedia of religion and nature
World Christian encyclopedia : a comparative survey of churches and religions in the modern world / 2nd Ed.
Digital text collections
Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt (ANRW) 90 vols. onlineAufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt (ANRW) / Rise and Decline of the Roman World
is a work of international cooperation in the field of historical scholarship. Organized as a handbook, ANRW is a survey of Roman Studies in the broadest sense, and includes the history of the reception and influence of Roman Culture up to the present time.
The work is divided into three parts:
I. From the Origins of Rome to the End of the Republic
II. The Principate
III. Late Antiquity
Each part consists of six systematic sections, which occasionally overlap: 1. Political History, 2. Law, 3. Religion, 4. Language and Literature, 5. Philosophy and the Sciences, 6. The Arts.
Corpus Augustinianum Gissense (CAG-online, version 3.0)Provides digital access to all known works of Augustine of Hippo (354-430) in the original Latin. Includes a bibliographic database of secondary literature on Augustine's life and works.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 (Readex)Features most of the books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in America between 1639 and 1800. Titles were selected based on Charles Evans's American Bibliography.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 (Readex)Features most of the books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in America from 1801 through 1819. Contains many state papers and government reports. Titles were selected based on Ralph Shaw's and Richard H. Shoemaker's American Bibliography.
Early English Books Online (ProQuest) TutorialProvides access to digital page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473 to 1700. Includes books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and newspapers. For searchable text of selected titles see Early English Books Online -Text Creation Partnership.
A tutorial for this resource can be found at: https://proquest.libguides.com/eebopqp
Eighteenth Century Collections Online: Parts I&II (Gale)Offers full text access to nearly every English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, alongside thousands of works published in the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. Consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, and ephemera. Multiple editions of individual works are offered where they add scholarly value or contain important differences.
Hathi Trust Digital LibraryProvides full text access to digital copies of books, pamphlets, and journals available in the public domain. Most of the freely available texts are pre-1923 imprints and government documents. Also allows full-text searching of millions of publications that are still under copyright in order to aid discovery of relevant materials. The Hathi Trust collection largely mirrors content available through Google Books, but only the latter platform permits the exports of public domain content.
Humanities Text Initiative Library of Latin Texts: Cross Database Searchtool (Brepols)The Cross Database Searchtool (CDS) enables users to search simultaneously the different full-text Latin databases from Brepols, and consult the entire Library of Latin Texts (LLT, Series A and B) in a combined set of search results. In general, CDS offers the same outlook and possibilities as each of the individual databases. The available filters are common to all databases of Brepols Latin: ‘Period', ‘Author', ‘Title' and ‘Century'. Should it be required, however, to search more specifically, it is always possible to return to the search pages of each of the individual databases and to use other filters which are not common to all databases.
One Literature (ProQuest)Features a digital library of English and American poetry, drama, and prose. Provides access to literary criticism indexed in ABELL and MLA International Bibliography and includes selective access to the full text of academic journals. Also includes full text access to a collection of dictionaries, encyclopedias, and biographical dictionaries.
Loeb Classical Library (Harvard University Press)Offers online access to authoritative editions of Greek and Latin texts. English translations appear on facing pages, following the format of the print editions. The collection is searchable in English and in the original language. Also available in print.
Manchester Medieval Sources (Manchester University Press)Offers access to a growing collection of translations of key primary sources. Series editors are Rosemary Horrox and Simon MacLean. Most volumes are also available in print.
Oxyrhynchus Online (Oxford University)An indexed image database of the the Oxyrhynchus Papyri.
Past Masters (InteLex)Contains selected full text of scholarly editions of many philosophers, theologians and literary writers: Anselm, Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Austen, Chesterton, Descartes, Dewey, Feuerbach, Fichte, Foucault, Francis of Assisi, Hegel, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Leibniz, Locke, Luther, Machiavelli, Marx and Engels, Merleau-Ponty, Montesquieu, Newman, Nietzsche, Ockham, Pascal, Peirce, Plato, Poinsot, Royce, Santayana, Schopenhauer, Shelley, Spinoza, Synge, Wittgenstein and Wollstonecraft, as well as collections for British Philosophy 1600-1900, The Continental Rationalists, The Latin Background: 1100-1550, and The Romantic Age.
Patrologia Graeca (Religion and Technology Center, Inc.)Provides the full text of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologiae Graecae. Contains more than 160 volumes of Greek material (with Latin translations) relevant to the study of the history of the Christian Church from its beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439.
Patrologia Latina (Chadwyck-Healey/ProQuest)Provides the full text of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, a collection of the works of the Church Fathers covering the history of Latin Christianity until AD 1216.
Perseus Digital LibraryCovers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world, including texts and images, and applies what has been learned from Classical Studies to other subjects within the humanities and beyond.
RELMIN (Institut du Pluralisme Religieux et de l'Athéisme - IPRA) Tutorial Access InstructionsPresents legal texts related to the status of religious minorities in the Euro-Mediterranean world (5th-15th centuries). The sources are presented in their original language (Latin, Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, etc.) together with English and French translations, notes, commentaries, and bibliographies. Conference proceedings published by the RELMIN project are available in the open access archive HAL. A detailed description of this project written by its director was published in Medieval Worlds.
The project was funded by the European Research Council and directed by John Tolan, Université de Nantes.
A tutorial for this resource can be found at: https://library.villanova.edu/application/files/6015/7678/9343/RELMIN_Tip_Sheet.pdf
The French language interface is the default access point. A link at the top of the screen toggles to the English language interface. English translations, notes, and commentaries are only available via the English interface.
Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 (Gale)Offers digital access to books, pamphlets, serials, and other sources published worldwide from 1500 to the early 20th century and documenting the history of the Americas. Titles were selected based on Joseph Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (University of California, Irvine) Limitations on Use Access InstructionsIncludes most literary texts written in Greek from Homer (8th century BCE) to the fall of Byzantium (1453 AD).
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The TLG materials are intended for non-commercial scholarly use. Permissive use includes processing, investigation, and analysis of the TLG materials, provided such processing is not undertaken for purposes of producing a commercially published document which includes extensive portions of the TLG materials or which reproduces all or part of the TLG materials in a form differing from the original form primarily as a result of mechanical, electronic, or other manipulation.
Examples of permitted use are the following: searches for words and phrases; statistical analyses; the production of indices and concordances intended for use as intermediate tools by the scholar or scholarly team engaged in research into the data and not intended for wider distribution; and all other text processing and text manipulation activities which are clearly identifiable as scholarly research. Examples of uses which are not permitted are the publication of a Greek text from materials supplied by TLG if such text does not reflect the addition of significant value by the editor, the downloading and reformatting of the texts for redistribution, or the production of scholarly tools which consist primarily of a mechanical, electronic or other similar rearrangement of text and are intended for commercial publication and distribution.
Users are not restricted from publishing the results of scholarly investigation and analysis of the TLG materials. In any publication arising from the use of TLG materials, the author(s) shall acknowledge the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae as the source of the material which assisted the author(s)’s investigations and shall indicate that such material is copyrighted by TLG and the Regents of the University of California.
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• Users may not under any circumstances download, print, make copies of and/or distribute the TLG materials.
• Users may not make back-up or archival copies of the TLG materials.
• Users may not use robots, spiders, or intelligent agents to access, search and/or systematically download any portion of the TLG materials.
• Users may not allow use of the TLG materials by individuals who are not Villanova students, employees, or library visitors.
• Users may not modify, manipulate, or create a derivative work of the TLG materials without the prior written permission of TLG.
• Users may not use the TLG materials for commercial purposes, including but not limited to the sale of the TLG materials, fee-for service use of the TLG materials, or bulk reproduction or distribution of the TLG materials in any form.
Note: All of the above prohibitions and restrictions upon the use of the TLG materials apply equally to reformatted versions of the TLG materials whose data format has been modified to permit analyses on other data processing systems.
The TLG materials are intended for non-commercial scholarly use. Permissive use includes processing, investigation, and analysis of the TLG materials, provided such processing is not undertaken for purposes of producing a commercially published document which includes extensive portions of the TLG materials or which reproduces all or part of the TLG materials in a form differing from the original form primarily as a result of mechanical, electronic, or other manipulation.
Examples of permitted use are the following: searches for words and phrases; statistical analyses; the production of indices and concordances intended for use as intermediate tools by the scholar or scholarly team engaged in research into the data and not intended for wider distribution; and all other text processing and text manipulation activities which are clearly identifiable as scholarly research. Examples of uses which are not permitted are the publication of a Greek text from materials supplied by TLG if such text does not reflect the addition of significant value by the editor, the downloading and reformatting of the texts for redistribution, or the production of scholarly tools which consist primarily of a mechanical, electronic or other similar rearrangement of text and are intended for commercial publication and distribution.
Users are not restricted from publishing the results of scholarly investigation and analysis of the TLG materials. In any publication arising from the use of TLG materials, the author(s) shall acknowledge the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae as the source of the material which assisted the author(s)’s investigations and shall indicate that such material is copyrighted by TLG and the Regents of the University of California.
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Current news and opinion
ABI/INFORM Complete (ProQuest)Provides access to scholarly journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals, and country- and industry-focused reports.
Arts & Letters Dailya service of the Chronicle of Higher Education
BBC NewsVisit BBC News for up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories. BBC News provides trusted World and UK news as well as local and regional perspectives. Also entertainment, business, science, technology and health news.
Catholic News ServiceU.S. Catholic news agengy
EWTN NewsEternal Word Television Network - Vatican and Catholic world news.
Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest)Offers access to the full text of articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. While most of the content is in English, some content in non-English languages is included. Coverage for most newspapers and magazines goes back to the early 1990s, but earlier content is also available.
Internet Public Library NewspapersOnline newspapers from around the world.
New York TimesThis link is for The New York Times website. The full text New York Times archive is also accessible through ProQuest or Lexis Nexis. Click here to view access options.
NewsBank Access World News Nexis Uni Limitations on UseFormerly known as LexisNexis Academic. Provides full text access to national and international newspaper and magazine articles and news transcripts, business, company, and industry information in the U.S. and abroad, and legal documents, including U.S. Federal and State court cases, and law reviews. Coverage varies.
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LexisNexis online services and the materials contained therein are under copyright by LexisNexis. All rights reserved. No part of these Services may be used except for research purposes, and the Services may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the LexisNexis Academic Library Solutions. Materials retrieved from the Services may not be duplicated in hard copy or machine-readable form without the prior written authorization of LexisNexis Academic & Library Solutions, except that limited reproduction of output is permitted solely for individual use by the Authorized User or internal distribution within the Subscribing Institution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement unless further limited or prohibited by the Copyright Act of 1976. Under no circumstances may the Materials or any portion thereof be used to create derivative products or services.
LexisNexis online services and the materials contained therein are under copyright by LexisNexis. All rights reserved. No part of these Services may be used except for research purposes, and the Services may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the LexisNexis Academic Library Solutions. Materials retrieved from the Services may not be duplicated in hard copy or machine-readable form without the prior written authorization of LexisNexis Academic & Library Solutions, except that limited reproduction of output is permitted solely for individual use by the Authorized User or internal distribution within the Subscribing Institution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement unless further limited or prohibited by the Copyright Act of 1976. Under no circumstances may the Materials or any portion thereof be used to create derivative products or services.
OpinionArchivesFeatures electronic archives for selected journals of opinion, including Harper's Magazine, The New Republic, The Nation, Commentary, NACLA, Commonweal, American Spectator, National Review and The New York Review of Books.
Philadelphia Inquirer, 1981- (NewsBank)Provides full text access to articles published since 1981. Does not include ads, calendar listings, horoscopes, sports statistics, stock tables, weather forecasts, and puzzles.
Religion DispatchesIndependent Website with writing on critical and timely issues at the intersection of religion, politics and culture.
Reuters Top US News Data & statistics
ARDA : archive of surveys, polls and other dataThe Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion
CARA : social scientific studies about the Catholic Church Pew Research Center: Global Attitudes & TrendsThe Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project conducts public opinion surveys around the world on a broad array of subjects ranging from people's assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state of the world and important issues of the day. Nearly 300,000 interviews in 59 countries have been conducted as part of the project's work.
Pew Research : Hispanic TrendsLaunched in 2001 as the Pew Hispanic Center, the project seeks to improve public understanding of the diverse Hispanic population in the United States and to chronicle Latinos' growing impact on the nation. The project conducts public opinion surveys, publishes demographic studies and other social science research and is well-known for its estimates of the unauthorized immigrant population in the U.S.
Pew Research : Hot Topics Menu Pew Research : Internet & American LifeIndependent research on the social impact of the internet.
Pew Research : Religion & Public LifeA project of the Pew Research Center.
Pew Research Center : Datasets World Christian Database (Brill)Provides comprehensive statistical information on Christians and denominations world-wide.
World Religion Database (Brill)Contains detailed statistics on global religious affiliation; including census, survey and projection data.
adherents.comstatistics and religious geography citations for world religions
Various freely available Web resources
Catholic Research Resources PortalThe Catholic Research Resources Portal, or "Catholic Portal," provides access to rare, unique and/or uncommon materials in libraries, seminaries, special collections and archives. By electronically bringing together resources in many formats from many collections, the Portal enables easy, effective and global discovery of Catholic research resources.
Christian History TimelinesCopyright © 1990 by the author or Christianity Today/Christian History magazine.
From Jesus to Christ Chronology
"From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians" is a PBS/FRONTLINE series on new and controversial historical evidence which challenges familiar assumptions about the life of Jesus and the epic rise of Christianity.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar internet archiveDocument meta site
Index of Medieval Art (Princeton University)Indexes, describes, and selectively presents medieval art objects with a focus on Christian iconography. Also includes Jewish, Islamic, and non-ecclesiastical subjects. Records include descriptive information, provenance, location and ownership information, bibliographical references, and, when available, a photographic reproduction of the work of art. Formerly known as Index of Christian Art.
Media/Culture ReviewsFrom the University of Queensland, Brisbane, a online publication devoted to analysing and critiquing media and culture.
Theology Librarydocument meta site
Virtual Religion Indexdocument meta site