Books you can take with you are in this number range: 200-299
When searching our catalog, use keywords such as names of groups, sects, denominations, religious texts or key figures e.g. Judaism, Muslims, Baptists, Mennonites, Bible, Koran, Talmud, Buddha, Apollo, Martin Luther, etc.
Helpful Reference Books
| Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible | R 220.5203 S |
| American Jewish Yearbook | R 296 A |
| Atlas of the World's Religions | R 290 A |
| Encyclopedia of Buddhism | R 294.303 E |
| Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects and New Religions | R 200.3 L |
| Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World | R 909.0976 E |
| Encyclopedia of Judaica | R 296 E |
| Encyclopedia of Religion | R 203 E |
| Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend | R 291.13 M |
| Guide to the Gods | R 291.211 L |
| How To Be a Perfect Stranger | R 291.38 H |
| Mythology of All Races | R 291 M |
| Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism | R 294.503 L |
| New Catholic Encyclopedia | R 282.03 N |
| Official Catholic Directory | R 282.058 O |
| Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World | R 909.0976 O |
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Free Websites
Hartford Institute for Religion Research
Hartford Seminary
(www.hartfordinstitute.org)
Social scientific religion research information, links to denominational organizations.
American Religion Data Archive
(www.thearda.com)
Surveys on religious groups, and religious professionals; aggregate data on congregations, churches and denominations; and interactive maps and reports on church membership
Virtual Religion Index
Rutgers University Religion Department)
(religion.rutgers.edu/vri)
An extensive, selective, annotated directory of Internet resources on religion and related topics
Beliefnet
(www.beliefnet.com)
News, discussions, culture, prayer, links to sacred texts, pages for Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and many other religions and spiritual beliefs
Classical Myth: The Ancient Sources
(web.uvic.ca/grs/bowman/myth)
Links to "ancient texts and images available on the Web concerning the major figures of Greek and Roman mythology."
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
(www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html)
Includes stories from Aesop, Bulfinch, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Grimm Brothers, Andrew Lang, Longfellow, the Volsunga Saga, and more.