Religious Studies Web Guide

Comprehensive​:

• Index Theologicus (IxTheo): Zeitschrifteninhaltsdienst Theologie der Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen - major index to religion and theology articles (world-wide coverage), essays and books. Particularly useful for German publications. Can limit to open access (small percentage)​
• Research in Ministry Online (RIM Online) -indexes theses from over 100 DMin, DMiss and DEdMin programs accredited by the Association of Theological Schools. Searchable by keyword, author, title, subject and institution.
• Riviste On-line - indexes 174 Italian theology and philosophy journals
• SELADOC  - index to theological articles from Latin America
• Teologia y religiosidad latinoamericana - Index to Theological Periodicals in Latin America - click on the pull down menu beside Buscar and select Seladoc
• Theoldi - Index to Theological and Interdisciplinary literature produced by the School of Theology at the University of Innsbruck. Covers Biblical Literature BILDI, Systematic and Fundamental theology KALDI, Canon law, and Girard Documentation MIMESIS
• Theological Journals Search - custom Google search of over 250 open access theological journals
• TREN (Theological Research Exchange Network Database) - Searchable database of over 23,800 theological theses/dissertations and conference papers

Focused:

• Barth - major database of works by and about Barth
• BIBP: Base d'Information Bibliographique en Patristique - searchable database to 60,000 records from over 1600 journals on patristic studies (Early Christian Church Fathers). While you need to search in French, many of the items are in English
• Bibliografia Misional y Ecumenica 2003 - extensive listing of Spanish works on mission
• Bibliographies for Theology - compiled by William Harmless includes sections for: 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 (Benedict and Medieval Monasticism. Gregory VII , Anselm, Francis of Assisi, Aquinas, Eckhart), the Reformation (Luther, Bucer, Zwingli, Calvin and Ignatius of Loyola), spirituality and mysticism (including Jewish Buddhist, Islamic, Hindu, Taoist, Confucian spirituality), sacraments and liturgy and 20th century theology)
• Bibliographies on Mission Studies compiled by John  Roxborogh
• Bibliography of Christianity in Ethiopia (2003)
• Bibliography in Ecological Ethics and Eco-Theology
• Bibliography of Ecumenicism and the Ecumenical Movement
• Bibliography of Interconfessional Dialogues
• Bibliography of Scholarly Writings about Denominations
• Bibliography of Thai Christianity by Herb Swanson
• Bibliography on Christianity in Palestine/Eretz-Israel
• Charles Hartshorne: Primary Bibliography of Philosophical Works
• Catalogue des Sources Chretiénnes - books and articles on the Fathers of the Church and history of early and medieval Christianity 
• Centre for Process Studies Bibliographies -  includes bibliographies on Hartshorne, Cobb, Ecofeminism, Korean thought and Process Studies, Whitehead, Peirce and Process Thought  etc.
• Chinese Christian Texts Database - created by Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, " The Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database) is a research database of primary and secondary sources concerning the cultural contacts between China and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (from 1582 to ca. 1840). The cultural contacts comprise documents in the various fields of cultural interaction: religion, philosophy, science, art, etc. " References for primary works contain description of content, lists of translations or secondary sources, and notes on facsimile editions and information on the author.
• Christian Encounter with African Traditional Religion compiled by Gailyn Van Rheenen- from missiology.org
• Christian Sexual Ethics Bibliographies from The Feminist Sexual Ethics Project - Includes bibliographies for: Asian and Asian-American Women's Theology and Thought, European-American Christian Women's Theology and Thought, Mujerista and Feminista Theology and Thought, The Bible and Homosexuality and Womanist and African-American Women's Theology and Thought
• Christianity and Ecology bibliography - compiled by Peter W. Bakken - posted at The Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale
• Christianity in China - compiled by Joseph Adler - includes sections for Nestorian Christianity in China and Catholic and Protestant missionaries in China
• Christians and Jews in the Middle Ages: A Bibliography - compiled by Patrick Nugent, from The ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
• Contemporary Religious Life Annotated Bibliography
• Cross in Ango-Saxon Britain
• Deutsches Liturgisches Institut - Search their library for listings of works (books and journal articles) on liturgy including Jewish liturgy.
• Dr Williams's Library and Congregational Library Online - major index to over 40,000 books and 67,000 journal articles on English Protestant Nonconformity
• Ecotheology Book List - compiled by J. B. Cobb
• Global Christian Theology: An Annotated Bibliography with Emphasis on Non-White Theologians  - compiled by Peter T. Vogt, Herbert V. Klem, Robert V. Rakestraw (Bethel Theological Seminary) - last updated 1998
• GlobeTheoLib and GlobeEthics.net  Library - extensive digital library of books and journals on theology and on ethics (political, bioethics, legal, religious, media etc.) worldwide. Most of the identified books and journals articles are freely available
• Lollard Studies -  bibliographies of primary and secondary sources for John Wyclif and Jan Hus
• Megachurch Selected Bibliography - from the Hartford Institute for Religion Research
• Missiology Bibliography  (from missiology.com)
• Missions - Guide to resources for Missions research compiled by Don Meredith
• Natural Sciences and Theology (Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences) - links to websites and  bibliography
• Online-Katalog der Bibliothek des Instituts fur Theologie und Frieden - Books and journal articles on the theology of peace, includes works from an ethical perspective
• Parker Library Bibliography of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
• PThK - Predigtadatenbank fur Theologie und Kirche - index to over 6,000 sermons published in periodical literature. Can search by theme, biblical passage, day and author
• The Study of Christian Monasticism - compiled by Ksenia Medvedeva (April 2015)
• Theologians -  listing of sources fo background information, texts and secondary materials compiled by Steve Perisho
• Theologie-Systematisch - compiled by Herbert Frohnhofen
• Theopoetics bibliography (ARC: A Creative Collaboration for Theopoetics)
• Waldesians Bibliography -  can search by keyword or author and browse index of people, subjects, titles, places
• Women and Christianity - see  Women and Religion
• Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa : 1763-2003: a comprehensive English language bibliography

• Biografisch Lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlandse Protestantisme - biographical dictionary of the history of Dutch Protestantism includes over 2,000 indifiduals.
• Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity - "essential biographical facts of Chinese and foreign Christian missionaries, church leaders, evangelists, and laity chiefly responsible for laying the foundations and advancing the growth of Chinese Christian communities and their influence in societies around the world. While the database is widely inclusive of time periods and faith traditions, the distinctive focus of the project is on the lesser-known Chinese Christians of the modern era (1800 to 1950)."0
• Dictionary of African Christian Biography
• Key Figures from Musée Protestant
• Reallexikon zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte - good for Christian art
• New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge by Philip Schaff - 13 vols. ( from Christian Classics Ethereal Library) - excellent for biographical information
• Surman Index -  brief biographical information on Congregational Ministers

• Christian Classics Ethereal Library - includes author/title/subject index and covers a wide range of authors from St. Augustine To G.K. Chesterton and John Donne
• Christian Works from the Cambridge Digitial Library- biblical manuscripts and liturgical texts covering over 1,000 years
• Church in the Southern Black Community - "The Church in the Southern Black Community" collects autobiographies, biographies, church documents, sermons, histories, encyclopedias, and other published materials. These texts present a collected history of the way Southern African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life. Coverage begins with white churches' conversion efforts, especially in the post-Revolutionary period, and depicts the tensions and contradictions between the egalitarian potential of evangelical Christianity and the realities of slavery. It focuses, through slave narratives and observations by other African American authors, on how the black community adapted evangelical Christianity, making it a metaphor for freedom, community, and personal survival." - includes Guide to Religious Content in Slave Narrative and list of images by subject
• Coptica - various Coptic texts
• Day Missions Collection of annual reports for a variety of Mission Bodies and groups
• Documents, Declarations and Speeches (Center for Christian-Jewish Learning) - Includes interreligious, Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish works
• Gifford Lectures - list of lectures and currently full text for lectures up to 1923.
• GlobeTheoLib (Global Digital Library on Theology and Ecumenism) and GlobeEthics Lib - extensive digitial library of books and journals on "theology, intercultural and interreligious dialogue, ethics and ecumenism in World Christianity
• Goussen Library Collection - specialized library for oriental church history - digitized texts in "oriental languages such as Syrian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Arabic, Armenian and Georgian languages from the 16th to the 20th century (the focus is on the 18th and the 19th century)." - comprehensive index to hymns and hymnals
• History of Missiology Collection  (Boston University School of Theology)
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Roman Church , Crusades, Papacy, Medieval Church
• ISR Reports (Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)
• Jewish-Christian Relations Background resources on Christian-Jewish relations - official statements, historic documents, educational resources, essays - includes a collection of texts on Jewish understanding of non-Jews and a biographical dictionary of Jesuits of Jewish ancestry
• Jewish-Christian Relations: Insights and Issues in the ongoing Jewish-Christian Dialogue
• Monumenta Germaniae Historica  -    Primary sources for the study of German history covering Holy Roman Empire, Benedictines, Bollandistes, Catholic Church, Benedictines, Cistercians
• Online Chinese Christianity Collection - "comprehensive free online collection of Chinese theology and on Christianity in China, including material in Chinese as well in other languages relating to Chinese theology and Christianity" - over 30,000 works - also includes information on Jews in China
• Parker Library on the Web -  extensive digital collection of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts
• Post-Reformation Digital Library - extensive collection of texts for Zwingli and many others -  " collection of  resources relating to the development of theology during the Post-Reformation / Early Modern era (ca. 16th-18th c."
• Puritan Library
• Restoration Movement Texts
• Sermon Online - can search by title, biblical passage, keyword and author
• Theological Collections  (hosted by American Theological Library Association) - 80 digital collections from a variety of Theological libraries- includes manuscripts, texts, images, postcards etc.
• Theological Commons (Princeton Theological Seminary) - over 120,0000 books, journals, photographs, manuscripts etc.

• Art and the Bible - can view biblical images by artist's name. Images are linked to the biblical text.
• Art and Religion  - National Gallery Research Theme - focuses on Christian art
• Art in the Christian Tradition - " The Art in the Christian Tradition (ACT) database is a freely available, regularly updated visual image internet resource. Designed for scholars, students, pastors, and religious educators, all of the images may be used for educational and/or religious non-profit purposes. Images are added regularly. There are currently 4469 images in the collection."
• Basel Mission Archives - "digitized visual and cartographic material.... some 30,000 images, 6700 maps, sketches and plans"
• Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis - digitized medieval manuscripts from the Cologne Cathedral Library
• Illuminated Manuscript Images from the Bodleian Library
• International Mission Photography Archives - "offers historical images from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections in Britain, Norway, Germany, France, Switzerland, and the United States. The photographs, which range in time from the middle of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century, offer a visual record of missionary activities and experiences in Africa, China, Madagascar, India, Papua-New Guinea, and the Caribbean."
• Kunera - Database of Medieval Pilgrimage Art - includes over 13,000 images with accompanying information including links to books and articles
• Medieval Art and Architecture Images  -  project by Alison Stones
• Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts ( Koninklijke Bibliotheek) - you can browse by subject or keyword search this major collection
• Medieval Manuscripts from the Pierpont Morgan Library 
• Monastic Matrix - images from this"scholarly resource for the study of women's religious communities from 400 to 1600 CE"
• Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert
• Pilgerzeichendatenbank - database of European Middle Ages pilgrims badges
• Yale Divinity Library Photographs

Portals:

• Dissenting Academies Online - "Dissenting Academies Online contains: Database entries for 220 academies, c.700 tutors, and c.11,000 students; c.70 biographies of tutors and c.60 academy histories, with more added regularly; Catalogue entries for over 20,000 academy library books; Records of 30,000 library loans made to over 600 borrowers." Includes Congregational, Presbyterian, Unitarian, Baptist, Methodist and nondenominational academies of higher education from the late 17th to late 19th centuries
• John Richard Allison Library at Regent College  -  strong collection of material for Puritan studies
• Missions on Microform -  listing of  major missionary collections on microfilm
• Mundus: Gateway to missionary collections in the United Kingdom - guide to the holdings of over 400 collections of overseas missionary materials held in the United Kingdom
• Unione Romana Biblioteche Ecclesiastiche - links to the catalogs of 18 Libraries
• VthK (Virtueiler Katakog Theologie und Kirche) - Meta-catalogue of over 8 million works including essays held by ecclesiastical and academic libraries in Germany
   

Major Multi-Denominational Libraries

• Cambridge Centre for Christianity Online -  Archives and Library  -   "research and teaching centre in Cambridge, England dedicated to study, reflection, and practical engagement with the global nature of Christianity in the twenty-first century."
• Centro Pro Unione Library - "significant collections of ecumenical theology, the history of ecumenical movement, Vatican II, the WCC and an exhaustive documentation of the interconfessional theological dialogue
• Deutsches Liturgisches Institut Library - indexes works in books and journals - also includes Jewish liturgy
• Dr. William's Library and Congregational Library Online - major index to books and articles on English Protestant nonconformity - link to manuscripts "Archives List" under search all collections
• Goussen Library Collection - specialized library for oriental church history - digitized texts in "oriental languages such as Syrian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Arabic, Armenian and Georgian languages from the 16th to the 20th century (the focus is on the 18th and the 19th century)." - comprehensive index to hymns and hymnals
• Graduate Theological Union Library
• Institut d'Etudes Augustiennes Online Catalogue (Sorbonne Université) - index to essays and books on the first 1,000 years of Christianity (includes Biblical and Semitic studies) Limit search to Etudes Augustiennes
• Online-Katalog der Bibliothek des Instituts fur Theologie und Frieden - Books and journal articles on the theology of peace, includes works from an ethical perspective
• Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts - comprehensive listing of manuscripts produced prior to 1600. Can limit by a wide variety of fields including "liturgical use"
• Universitatsbibliothek Tuebingen
• Yale University Divinity School Library

• Association of Theological Schools Member List - Geographical and Denominational Lists are also available
• Baker's Guide to Christian Online Learning - good guide to Christian Distance Education programs, arranged by type of degree and includes a guide to distance education courses
• Christian Study Centre Database (Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity) 
• Council for Christian Colleges and Universities Member List
• Distance education- Schools and Programs (Wabash Center's Websites on Religion - now being maintained by American Theological Library Association)
• Members of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Theological Schools
• Wabash guide to seminaries and schools - now maintained by the Americanl Theological Library Association)