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Theology

A guide to finding resources in theology. Guides to specific resources and strategies for individual classes. Taking class online? Limit database searches to "full-text" and Library catalog searches to "Ebooks."

*Taking class online? Request photocopies of print material owned by SHC through the Library liaison.

   Ahlstrom, Sydney E. A Religious History of the American
       People
.
2nd ed. Yale, 2004.

   Keller, Rosemary S. Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in
       North America
.
Indiana University Press, 2006.

   Hill, Samuel S. ed. The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture:
        Volume 1: Religion
. University of North Carolina, 2006.

   Hill, Samuel S. Encyclopedia of Religion in the South.
        Mercer, 1984. BR 535 .E52 1984 Reference Fl. 1


Queen, Edward L, ed. Encyclopedia of American Religious History.
     Fourth edition. Facts on File, 2019.

Lippy, Charles H. editor. Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience :
     Studies of Traditions and Movements
. 3 vols. Scribner, 1988.
      BL 2525 .E53 1988.  Reference Fl. 1

Melton, J. Gordon. American Religious Creeds. 3 vols. Triumph Books, 1991.  
     BL 427 .E52 1991   Reference Fl. 1
           A compendium of more than 450 statements of belief and doctrine.

Palmer, Colin A., ed. Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History,
     2nd ed. 6 vols. Macmillan, 2006.

    See entries for persons. See especially entry for 'Pentecostalism,'
     the 'holiness movement,' and 'African Methodist Episcopal Church.

     Divining America: Essays on Religion in American History
       (17th century-present; National Humanities Center)

    Religion in the United States

       to 1775


Religion in the United States

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century

All American Religious Biographies

samples:

Mary Baker Eddy

Jonathan Edwards

Thomas Merton

Evangelists--United States--Biography

African American evangelists

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Serra, Junipero

Sample: Tinker, George E. Missionary Conquest : The Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993.

Seton, Elizabeth Ann

Women missionaries--United States

Young, Brigham, 1801-1877

Digital editions of pre-1920 editions of known titles by and/or about religious figures and movements may be available from the following archival collections:

Archive.org

Hathi Trust

be certain to select "in this Journal" when searching specific JSTOR titles