LibGuides: Religious Studies: Reference Sources

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Print resources on the reference shelves have to be consulted in the library.

Copies of chapters or entries can be made in the photocopy section on level 4 of the library.

Brill Dictionary of Religion, 2006 This link opens in a new window
This title addresses religion in a richly illustrated multi-media reference source on the various forms of religious commitment. It addresses the different theologies and doctrinal declarations of official institutionalized religions.
Brill Online Reference This link opens in a new window
List of various major reference works published by Brill Publishers and accessible to registered Unisa students and staff.
Cambridge Companions Online This link opens in a new window
Cambridge Companions provides subject or theme based collections of full text e-books in the subject areas of literature, classics, philosophy, religion, culture and music. Titles are published by Cambridge University Press.
Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion (2010) This link opens in a new window

Vocabulary for the study of religion / edited by Robert Segal & Kocku von Stuckrad.
The Vocabulary for the Study of Religion offers a unique overview of critical terms in the study of religion(s). The academic study of religion has been an interdisciplinary endeavor since its inception at the end of the nineteenth century. Much of the theoretical vocabulary that is needed to study religion has been imported from adjacent disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, historiography, theology, philology, literary studies, psychology, philosophy, cultural studies, and political sciences. It is the strength of the academic study of religion to bring these approaches into conversation with one another.