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Religious Studies: Article Databases

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ATLA Religion Database

ATLA is a database covering over one million citations in 1,523 journal titles published from 1949 onwards. Topics covered include the Bible, Religion and Social Issues, Church History, World Religions & Religious Studies, Theology, Philosophy, and Ethics.

Philosopher's Index

Is a current and comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. It is considered the most thorough index of journal literature on the subject, features author-written abstracts covering scholarly research published in journals and books, including contributions to anthologies and book reviews.  Includes nearly 570 journals from 43 countries with content representing a variety of languages. Coverage begins in 1940.

Sociological Abstracts

Provides indexes/abstracts for over 1,800 periodicals; also includes books, chapters, dissertations, papers; indexes book reviews on topics such as sociology, social work, social sciences, behavioral sciences.  ins in Coverage begins in 1952.

Multidisciplinary

Academic Search Complete

Our largest multidisciplinary database, Academic Search Complete covers a wide variety of topics, including philosophy and religious studies.

JSTOR

JSTOR is a great choice for topics in the humanities and social sciences. JSTOR is a backfile database, meaning current issues of journals may not be available.