Article Databases (DEI)

Article Databases

• Academic Search Premier: Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary database of scholarly articles and a great starting place for research. Covers literature from 1984 to the present.
• Africa-Wide: NiPAD: Africa-Wide NiPAD contains twenty-seven African, European and North American databases with close to 2 million records indexing printed texts, maps and music recordings on all topics in African studies. Coverage goes back to the 19th century.
• America: History and Life: Scholarly journal articles covering the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to today. Essential for the study of American religious history. Use it to search for material about a historical time period.
• ATLA Religion Database: Covers contemporary scholarly journal articles, essays, sermons, and book reviews in the study of religion. Materials cover all religions and all theological points of view.
• Proquest Black Studies: Proquest Black Studies combines primary and secondary sources, including leading Black Historical Newspapers, archival documents and collections, key government materials, videos, writings by major Black intellectuals and leaders, scholarly journals.
• Race Relations Abstracts: A multidisciplinary source of peer-reviewed and general interest articles related to race relations. Includes scholarship on the intersection of religion and race.

E-Books and E-Texts

• Classic Sermon Index: A collection of over 40,000 sermons from ancient to contemporary times. Sermons are continually added to the database and are in English or English translation.
• Oxford African American Studies Center: Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Oxford African American Studies Center provides thousands of articles by top scholars in the field.
• Proquest Black Studies: Proquest Black Studies combines primary and secondary sources, including leading Black Historical Newspapers, archival documents and collections, key government materials, videos, writings by major Black intellectuals and leaders, scholarly journals, and…

Images and Sounds

• History Makers: An African American oral video history archive containing interviews of African Americans who have made a significant contribution in area of American life or culture, or who have been associated with a particular movement or organization.

News Media

• African American Newspapers: Guide to Databases at Harvard: This research guide identifies and links directly to Harvard’s major collections of African American news sources in databases. It also points to African American news sources on microfilm, microfiche and in print.
• Liberator (1831-1865): The most influential newspaper in the antebellum, antislavery crusade in the United States, published in Boston, Massachusetts, by William Lloyd Garrison.
• Proquest Black Studies: Proquest Black Studies combines primary and secondary sources, including leading Black Historical Newspapers, archival documents and collections, key government materials, videos, writings by major Black intellectuals and leaders, scholarly journals.

Reference Sources

• Arabic Literature of Africa Online: Arabic Literature of Africa Online is a bio-bibliography on the Arabic manuscript tradition in the African continent, which continued well into the 20th century CE.
• Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions: Abridged version of the Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
• Dictionary of African Christian Biography: Biographical accounts and church histories–from oral and written sources–integral to a scholarly understanding of African Christianity.Biographical accounts and church histories–from oral and written sources–integral to a scholarly understanding of African Christianity.
• Encyclopaedia of Islam Online: A scholarly encyclopedia in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, with the online version bringing remote access to over 13,000 articles. Fonts must be installed for characters to display properly. Instructions and fonts are available on the resource home page.
• Encyclopedia of Religion: Online version of Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed., published in print in 2005. It includes almost all the original 2,750 entries (many updated) from the first edition edited by Mircea Eliade and published in 1987 plus almost 600 new articles.
• Encyclopedia of Religion in America: Encyclopedia of Religion in America examines how religious history and practices are woven into the political, social, cultural, and historical landscape of North America. Covers early European settlement to the present day.Encyclopedia of Religion in America examines how religious history and practices are woven into the political, social, cultural, and historical landscape of North America. Covers early European settlement to the present day.
• Oxford African American Studies Center: Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Oxford African American Studies Center provides thousands of articles by top scholars in the field.
• Oxford Bibliographies Online: Provides annotated bibliographies of essential literature on various subjects in the humanities and social sciences. Guides are updated quarterly, with entries added yearly to each subject area, as well as revisions to existing entries.
• Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion: The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion seeks to provide accurate, scholarly information about the world’s many religions and topics of research and debate.
• Oxford Research Encyclopedia. African History: A research encyclopedia that when complete will cover the whole range of African history including recent religious movements.
• Pluralism Project: An ongoing research effort, the Pluralism Project studies and interprets religious diversity and interfaith relations in the United States. An ongoing research effort, the Pluralism Project studies and interprets religious diversity and interfaith relations in the United States.
• Proquest Black Studies: Proquest Black Studies combines primary and secondary sources, including leading Black Historical Newspapers, archival documents and collections, key government materials, videos, writings by major Black intellectuals and leaders, scholarly journals.