Online version of a standard print encyclopedia containing more than 3000 entries on all aspects of religion...

Large collection of hundreds of online encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographical compilations, and other reference tools...

A collection of online biographical sources, dictionaries, and encyclopedias on world religions...

"A multidisciplinary approach that addresses all aspects of the dialogue between the sciences and the world's religions, reaching into the humanities as well as into the physical sciences and technology...

Contains more than 150 entries concerning indigenous North American religions, religious practices, and rituals...

Contains entries that address "religion as an element of daily life and public discourse...

"Explores contemporary American religion in all its diversity...

Contains more than 200 entries that "cover all aspects of philosophy, theology, ethics, politics, economics and government, providing a brief definition of each term, a description of the principal ideas behind it, its history, development and contemporary relevance, and a detailed bibliography giving the major sources in the field...

Preceded by three introductory essays and a chronology of major events in black religious history from 1618 to 1991, this A-Z encyclopedia includes three types of entries: 773 biographical sketches of African American religious leaders, ranging from a paragraph to several pages 341 entries on African American denominations and religious organizations (including white churches with significant black memberships and educational institutions) Topical articles on important aspects of African American religious life (e...

Contains nearly 500 entries which such cover topics as deities and divinities, the nature of humanity, the end of life, the conquest of fear, and the quest for attainment of harmony with nature and other humans...

"Comprehensive coverage of more than 2,300 North American religious groups in the United States and Canada -- from Adventists to Zen Buddhists...

Contains articles on a "wide range of information that draws from the arts, humanities, medicine, sciences and social sciences...

Contains "over 300 entries that examine the concepts, emotions, and relationships associated with love and world religions...

Contains entries on the names and results of medicine ceremonies, renowned shamans famous for their powers, techniques used by shamans to acquire and control the power of sacred ceremonies, technical terms used by anthropologists, biographies of anthropologists who research these ceremonies, cross-cultural symbolic motifs, plants and sacred paraphernalia associated with ceremonies, and recurring themes that structure these ceremonies...

Contains entries "on over three-hundred movements from almost every country worldwide, both movements that derive from the major religions of the world as well as neo-traditional movements...

"Entries examine topical essays, recent phenomena, concepts, cults, prominent individuals and personalities, organizations and publications, as well as providing entries tracing the development of occultism and parapsychology in particular countries...

Contains more than 100 records on prophets and prophecies from ancient times to the present...

Excellent, though now somewhat dated, 16-volume encyclopedia of world religion...

Contains hundreds of articles which provide a "summary of the insights gained by the principal social sciences of religion: anthropology, psychology, and sociology...

Contains entries which provide "historical and cross-cultural information that will help readers understand war and other forms of political violence in the major religions of the world...

Contains 140 articles which "cover seven major elements of religious freedom: key concepts, US history, world history, world religions, major issues, minority groups and their rights, and key documents...

Contains more than 120 articles on "religious beliefs expressed through ritualized behavior and festivals...

Contains more than 320 articles on the basic concepts in stem cell biology, including the politics, ethics, and challenges currently facing the field...

Contains entries on witchcraft "and its close relations magic and religion" from the ancient world to the present...

Introductory essays on major philosophers and religious thinkers from the oriental tradition...

"Reaching back to Greece in the fifth century BCE and proceeding to the late twentieth century, this work describes the relationship of science and religion throughout history...

Contains about 1,200 entries including biographical sketches of holy men and women, along with 20 survey articles on views of holy people in the major religious traditions such as Islam, Buddhism, and African religions, as well as 64 comparative articles on aspects of holiness and veneration across cultures...

Offers scholarly articles on the debate between and intersection of religion and science...

Contains more than 2000 articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences...

"Covering all aspects of death and dying -- biological, medical, social, sociological, psychological, religious, and philosophical -- the 2-vol...