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Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials PLUS (off campus access requires login)

The Atla Religion Database is the premier resource for journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with the largest collection of full text religion and theology journals. This database is produced by Atla, a membership association of collectors and connectors in religion and theology.

Credo Reference: Christian History and Theology (off campus access requires login)

Credo is an excellent place to begin when you are first learning about a topic. On this site, you will be able to search encyclopedias, dictionaries, and handbooks on topics ranging from Christianity to other religions to the interactions between religion and society.

Gun Regulation and Legislation in America
This collection includes periodicals, compiled legislative histories, CRS reports, Congressional hearings, United States Supreme Court briefs, monographs, and other related materials on the difficult and controversial topic of regulating firearms in the United States.

Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture, & Law.
This collection includes legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.

Civil Rights and Social Justice
This collection brings together publications covering civil rights in the United States including hearings and committee prints, legislative histories on the landmark legislations, CRS and GAO reports, briefs from major Supreme Court cases, and publications from the Commission on Civil Rights.

Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson) (off campus access requires login)

A resource that provides full text of notable scholarly resources as well as specialized magazines covering art, classical studies, dance, film, journalism, philosophy, religion and more.

JSTOR: Religion and Theology archive collection (off campus access requires login)

This collection covers the history and philosophy of religious thought spanning traditions, periods, and critical approaches. As an archival collection, it includes the full text of journals from their inception through approximately five years ago.

MasterFILE Reference eBook Collection (off campus access requires login)

A multidisciplinary database providing full text for popular magazines, reference books and other highly regarded sources from world leading publishers.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Find overviews, news, and opinions on hundreds of today's important social issues.

Race Relations Abstracts

Contains abstracts for the top academic journals, books, periodicals and newspapers related to ethnic and racial studies.

Religion and Philosophy Collection (off campus access requires login)

A full-text collection of journal and magazine content on world religions, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and more.

Sustainability Reference Center

A comprehensive full-text database covering all aspects of sustainability and corporate social responsibility.

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Albanese, Jay S., ed. The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2014.

AllSides Red Blue Dictionary. Saint Helena, CA: AllSides, 2019.

Anglim, Christopher, ed. Encyclopedia of Religion and the Law in America. Amenia, NY: Grey House Publishing, 2009.

Arnold, Kathleen R., ed. Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2011.

Conde, Victor. Encyclopedia of Human Rights in the United States. Amenia, NY: Grey House Publishing; 2017.

Ember, Carol R. and Melvin Ember, eds. Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World's Cultures. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2003.

Genovese, Michael A.and Han, Lori Cox. Encyclopedia of American Government and Civics. New York: Facts on File, 2017.

Guido Bolaffi, Raffaele Bracalenti, Peter Braham, and Sandro Gindro. Dictionary of Race, Ethnicity and Culture. London: SAGE Publications, 2003.

Jary, David and Julia Jary, eds. Collins Dictionary of Sociology, 4th ed. Glasgow: Collins, 2005.

Kurian, George Thomas, ed. The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons., 2011.

Leonard, Bill, and Jill Y. Crainshaw, eds. Encyclopedia of Religious Controversies in the United States. 2nd ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2015.

Mason, Patrick L., ed. Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. Detroit: Macmillan, 2013.

McFarland, Ian A., David A. S. Fergusson, and Karen Kilby, eds. Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Powell, John. Encyclopedia of North American Immigration. New York: Facts on File, 2016.

Thompson, Sherwood, ed. Encyclopedia of Diversity and Social Justice. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014.

Turner, Bryan S., ed. Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Watts, Duncan. Dictionary of American Government and Politics. Edinburgh; University of Edinburgh. 2010.

Wuthnow, Robert. Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2007.

Introductions and Handbooks

The Ashgate Research Companion to Migration Law, Theory and Policy, edited by Satvinder S. Juss. Ashgate Publishing, 2013.

Big Ideas Simply Explained: The Politics Book. London: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc., 2013.

Bingham, D. Jeffrey. The Routledge Companion to Early Christian Thought. Routledge Companions. London: Routledge, 2011.

Crow, Ben and Suresh K. Lodha. The Atlas of Global Inequalities. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2015.

Fagan, Andrew. Atlas of Human Rights. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2010.

Hauerwas, Stanley, and Samuel Wells. The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics. 2nd ed. Blackwell Companions to Religion. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Haynes, Jeffrey. Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2016.

Juss, Satvinder S. The Ashgate Research Companion to Migration Law, Theory and Policy. Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2013.

Lovin, Robin W. An Introduction to Christian Ethics: Goals, Duties, and Virtues. Abingdon Press, 2011.

McGraw, Barbara A. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Politics in the U.S. Chichester, UK: Wiley Blackwell, 2018.

Miller, Robert L., and John D. Brewer, eds. The A-Z of Social Research: A Dictionary of Key Social Science Research Concepts. London: Sage, 2003.

Schechter, Stephen. American Governance. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan, 2016.

Scott, Peter, and William T. Cavanaugh. The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology. Blackwell Companions to Religion. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2013.

Weaver, Matthew Lon. Applied Christian Ethics: Foundations, Economic Justice, and Politics. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014.

Wells, Samuel, Ben Quash, and Rebekah Eklund. Introducing Christian Ethics. 2nd ed. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.

Wogaman, J. Philip. Christian Ethics: A Historical Introduction. 2nd ed. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011.

Yip, Andrew K.T. and Stephen J. Hunt. The Ashgate Research Companion to Contemporary Religion and Sexuality. Farnham, UK: Routledge, 2012.

Social Concerns

Gender and Sexuality

Butler-Wall, Annika, Kim Cosier, and Rachel L. S. Harper. Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality. Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools, 2016.

de Jong, Dirk H. Conservative Christianity, Gender Identity, and Religious Liberty: A Primer and a Proposal. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Cornwall, Susannah. SCM Core Text Theology and Sexuality. London: SCM Press, 2013. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]

Edman, Elizabeth M. Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity. Queer Action/Queer Ideas. Boston: Beacon Press, 2016.

Everhart, Ruth. The #MeToo Reckoning: Facing the Church’s Complicity in Sexual Abuse and Misconduct. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2020.

Fessenden, Tracy, and Linell E. Cady. Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.

Jordan, Mark D. Blessing Same-Sex Unions: The Perils of Queer Romance and the Confusions of Christian Marriage. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Surtees, Jennifer, and Jennifer Dyer. Exploring Gender Diversity in the Ancient World. Intersectionality in Classical Antiquity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Race

Barndt, Joseph R. Becoming an Anti-Racist Church: Journeying Toward Wholeness. Prisms. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2011. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]

Blum, Edward J., and Paul Harvey. The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]

Carter, J. Kameron. Race: A Theological Account. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]

Cole, Mike. Racism: A Critical Analysis. London: Pluto Press, 2016.

Cone, James H., and Cornel West. Black Theology and Black Power. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2018.

Cone, James H. The Cross and the Lynching Tree. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2011.

Dattel, Gene. Reckoning with Race: America’s Failure. New York: Encounter Books, 2018.

Draper, Andrew T. A Theology of Race and Place: Liberation and Reconciliation in the Works of Jennings and Carter. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2016.

Feagin, Joe. Systemic Racism: A Theory of Oppression. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Glaude, Eddie S., Jr. An Uncommon Faith: A Pragmatic Approach to the Study of African American Religion. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018.

Gorman, James L. Jeff W. Childers, and Mark W. Hamilton. Slavery’s Long Shadow : Race and Reconciliation in American Christianity. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2019.

Harvey, Jennifer. Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2020.

Hawkins, J. Russell, and Sinitiere, Phillip Luke, eds. Christians and the Color Line: Race and Religion after Divided by Faith. Cary: Oxford University Press, 2013. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]

Helsel, Carolyn B. Preaching About Racism: A Guide for Faith Leaders. Nashville, TN: Chalice Press, 2018.

Kinna, Ruth, and Gillian Whiteley. Cultures of Violence: Racial Violence and the Origins of Segregation in South Africa and the American South. Abingdon: Manchester University Press, 2020.

Lloyd, Vincent W., and Andrew L. Prevot. Anti-Blackness and Christian Ethics. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2017.

Lovchik, John. RACISM: Reality Built on a Myth. Eugene, OR: Resource Publications, 2018.

Marsh, Charles and John M. Perkins. Welcoming Justice: God’s Movement Toward Beloved Community. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2018.

Maxwell, David. Race in a Post-Obama America: The Church Responds. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2016. [access limited to three simultaneous readers]

Mitchem, Stephanie Y. Race, Religion, and Politics: Toward Human Rights in the United States. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.

Nikolić, Marko. Media Reporting and Racism Based Crime. Oakville, ON: Society Publishing, 2019.

Robinson, Elaine A. Race and Theology. Horizons in Theology. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2012.

Ruben Rosario Rodriguez. Racism and God-Talk: A Latino/a Perspective. New York: NYU Press, 2008.

Sechrest, Love L., Johnny Ramírez-Johnson, and Amos Yong. Can “White” People Be Saved?: Triangulating Race, Theology, and Mission. Missiological Engagements Series. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2018.

Smith, R. Drew, William Ackah, Anthony G. Reddie, and Rothney S. Tshaka. Contesting Post-Racialism: Conflicted Churches in the United States and South Africa. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2015.

Swanson, David W. Rediscipling the White Church: From Cheap Diversity to True Solidarity. Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2020.

Tisby, Jemar. The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2019. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]

Politics

Berry, Damon T. Blood and Faith: Christianity in American White Nationalism. Religion and Politics. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2017.

Havers, Grant N. Lincoln and the Politics of Christian Love. Columbia: University of Missouri, 2009.

Jacobson, Robin Dale and Nancy D. Wadsworth. Faith and Race in American Political Life. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012.

Lacorne, Denis. Religion in America: A Political History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.

Leeman, Jonathan. Political Church: The Local Assembly As Embassy of Christ’s Rule. Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2016.

Marsden, George M. Religion and American Culture: A Brief History. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2018.

Marsh, Charles and John M. Perkins. Welcoming Justice: God’s Movement Toward Beloved Community. Downers Grove: IVP Books, 2018.

Mitchem, Stephanie Y. Race, Religion, and Politics: Toward Human Rights in the United States. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.

Noll, Mark A. Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the 1980s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Pregeant, William Russell. For the Healing of the Nation: A Biblical Vision. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2016.

Prothero, Stephen R. A Nation of Religions: The Politics of Pluralism in Multireligious America. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Raboteau, Albert J. American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016.

Schaefer, Christopher. Re-Imagining America: Finding Hope in Difficult Times. Stroud, UK: Hawthorn Press, 2019.

Valelly, Richard M. American Politics: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Wald, Kenneth D., and Allison Calhoun-Brown. Religion and Politics in the United States. 8th ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.

Wuthnow, Robert. Red State Religion: Faith and Politics in America’s Heartland. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.

Economics

Barrera, Albino. Biblical Economic Ethics: Sacred Scripture’s Teachings on Economic Life. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013.

Brunk, Timothy M. The Sacraments and Consumer Culture. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press Academic, 2020.

Cleaver, Harry. 33 Lessons on Capital: Reading Marx Politically. London: Pluto Press, 2019.

Dunlop, Jamie. Budgeting for a Healthy Church: Aligning Finances with Biblical Priorities for Ministry. 9Marks. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2019.

Felber, Christian. Change Everything: Creating an Economy for the Common Good. London: Zed Books, 2019.

Goodchild, Philip. Capitalism and Religion: The Price of Piety. London: Routledge, 2002.

Hinson-Hasty, Elizabeth L. The Problem of Wealth: A Christian Response to a Culture of Affluence. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2017.

Kaushal, Neeraj Blaming Immigrants: Nationalism and the Economics of Global Movement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.

Kotsko, Adam. Neoliberalism’s Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018.

Leshem, Dotan. The Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy From Jesus to Foucault. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.

Marsh, Charles and John M. Perkins. Welcoming Justice: God’s Movement Toward Beloved Community. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2018.

Mayfield, D. L. The Myth of the American Dream: Reflections on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety, and Power. Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2020.

McCloud, Sean, and William A. Mirola. Religion and Class in America: Culture, History, and Politics. International Studies in Religion and Society. Leiden: Brill, 2009.

Miller, Tom. China’s Asian Dream: Empire Building Along the New Silk Road. London: Zed Books, 2019.

Minton, Elizabeth A. Belief Systems, Religion, and Behavioral Economics: Marketing in Multicultural Environments. New York: Business Expert Press, 2014.

Nelson, Robert H. Economics As Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond. University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 2014.

O’Halloran, Sharyn and Thomas Groll. After the Crash: Financial Crises and Regulatory Responses. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.

Ostry, Jonathan D. Prakash Loungani, and Andrew Berg. Confronting Inequality: How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.

Pally, Marcia. Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics, and Theologies of Relationality. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2016.

Sung, Jung Mo. Desire, Market and Religion. Reclaiming Liberation Theology. London: SCM Press, 2007.

Stapleford, John E. Bulls, Bears and Golden Calves: Applying Christian Ethics in Economics. 3rd ed. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2015.

Stensrud, Astrid B. and Thomas Hylland Eriksen. Climate, Capitalism and Communities: An Anthropology of Environmental Overheating. London: Pluto Press, 2019.

Stout, Lynn A., Sergio Gramitto, and Tamara Belinfanti. Citizen Capitalism: How a Universal Fund Can Provide Influence and Income to All. Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2019.

Swatos, William H., Jr, and Lutz Kaelber. The Protestant Ethic Turns 100: Essays on the Centenary of the Weber Thesis. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2016.

Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Routledge Classics. London: Routledge, 2001.

Migration and Immigration

Agosto, Efrain, and Jacqueline M. Hidalgo. Latinxs, the Bible, and Migration. The Bible and Cultural Studies. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Amstutz, Mark R. Just Immigration: American Policy in Christian Perspective. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2017.

Azaransky, Sarah, et al. Religion and Politics in America’s Borderlands. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013.

Bachmann-Medick, Doris, and Jens Kugele. Migration: Changing Concepts, Critical Approaches. Concepts for the Study of Culture (CSC). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018.

Baker, Brenda J., and Takeyuki Tsuda. Migration and Disruptions: Toward a Unifying Theory of Ancient and Contemporary Migrations. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015.

Boda, Mark J., Frank Ritchel Ames, John J. Ahn, and Mark Leuchter. The Prophets Speak on Forced Migration. Society of Biblical Literature: Ancient Israel and Its Literature. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2015.

Boursier. Helen T. Desperately Seeking Asylum: Testimonies of Trauma, Courage, and Love. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019. [access limited to three simultaneous readers]

Campbell, Benjamin C., and Michael H. Crawford. Causes and Consequences of Human Migration: An Evolutionary Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Carroll R., M. Daniel. Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Bible. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2013. [access limited to one simultaneous reader]

Carson, Marion L. S. Setting the Captives Free: The Bible and Human Trafficking. Cambridge, UK: The Lutterworth Press, 2016.

Collier, Paul. Exodus: How Migration Is Changing Our World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Cruz, Gemma Tulud. An Intercultural Theology of Migration: Pilgrims in the Wilderness. Studies in Systematic Theology. Leiden: Brill, 2010.

Glanville, Mark R. Adopting the Stranger As Kindred in Deuteronomy. Society of Biblical Literature: Ancient Israel and Its Literature. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2018.

Goodman, Adam. The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants. Politics and Society in Modern America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.

Heyer, Kristin E. Kinship Across Borders: A Christian Ethic of Immigration. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2012.

Kaushal, Neeraj Blaming Immigrants: Nationalism and the Economics of Global Movement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.

McKay, Steven C., Aims McGuinness, and Sukanya Banerjee. New Routes for Diaspora Studies. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2012.

Padilla, Elaine. Theology of Migration in the Abrahamic Religions. Christianities of the World. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Phan, Peter C. et al. Christian Theology in the Age of Migration: Implications for World Christianity. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020.

Prior, John, and VanThanh Nguyen. God’s People on the Move: Biblical and Global Perspectives on Migration and Mission. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2014.

Rajendra, Tisha M. Migrants and Citizens: Justice and Responsibility in the Ethics of Immigration. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2017.

Strain, Charles R., and Elizabeth W. Collier. Religious and Ethical Perspectives on Global Migration. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014.

Yoo, Justin, Andrea Zerbini, and Caroline M. Barron. Migration and Migrant Identities in the Middle East from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. London: Routledge, 2019.

Climate Change

Benedict XVI. The Garden of God. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2014.

De Rivero, Oswaldo. The Myth of Development: Non-Viable Economies and the Crisis of Civilization. London: Zed Books, 2019.

Ellenblum, Roni. The Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean: Climate Change and the Decline of the East, 950–1072. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Francis (Pope). Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality: On Care for Our Common Home. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2015.

Henry, Claude and Laurence Tubiana. Earth at Risk: Natural Capital and the Quest for Sustainability. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.

Howe, Joshua P. Making Climate Change History: Documents From Global Warming’s Past. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017.

Hogan, Thor. Hydrocarbon Nation: How Energy Security Made Our Nation Great and Climate Security Will Save Us. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.

Magill, Gerard, and Kiarash Aramesh. The Urgency of Climate Change: Political Perspectives. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Philander, S. George. Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2012.

Sasso, Eduardo. A Climate of Desire: Reconsidering Sex, Christianity, and How We Respond to Climate Change. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2018.

Scerri, Andy. Postpolitics and the Limits of Nature: Critical Theory, Moral Authority, and Radicalism in the Anthropocene. SUNY Series in New Political Science. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2018.

Sutterfield, Ragan, and Emily Sutterfield. Church, Creation, and the Common Good: Guidance in an Age of Climate Crisis. New York: Church Publishing, 2018.

Thompson, Allen and Jeremy Bendik-Keymer. Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change: Human Virtues of the Future. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012.

Wyn Jones, R. Gareth. Energy, the Great Driver: Seven Revolutions and the Challenges of Climate Change. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2019.