LibGuides: Arts & Humanities: Theology &amp; Religious Studies

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Collections Guide for Theology & Religious Studies

Welcome to the Collections Guide for Theology and Religious Studies.

This guide provides tailored information on library collections and links to some of our key resources.

Find handbooks and companions for Theology & Religious Studies

Explore the theology and religious studies collections of a range of scholarly handbooks and companions.

Blackwell Reference Online Blackwell Reference Online is an online library giving access to over 500 reference ebooks. The collection covers topics from across the humanities and social sciences and includes the critically-acclaimed Blackwell Companions and Handbooks in addition to other valuable reference materials such as dictionaries, encyclopedias and concise companions with integrated seamless links to standalone major reference works on the Blackwell Reference Online platform.
Cambridge Companions Online (CCO) Cambridge Companions hosted on Cambridge Core platform are series of authoritative guides, written by leading experts, offering lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods. CCO offers thousands of comprehensive and accessible essays on major authors, periods and genres, written by experts and designed for student readers.King's users have access to the complete collection of Cambridge Companions, which is divided into three subsections: Literature and Classics; Philosophy, Religion and Culture; and Music.
Cambridge Histories Online Cambridge Histories Online hosted on Cambridge Core platform offer access to over 400 volumes published since 1960. The Cambridge Histories series is one of the most trusted reference collections in the academic world, with over 300 titles spanning 15 subject areas. Subject areas include: American History, British History, Economic History, General History, History of Science, History of the Book, Language & Linguistics, Literary Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political & Social Theory, Regional History, Religious Studies, Theatre Studies & Performing Arts and Warfare.
Oxford Bibliographies Online Oxford Bibliographies Online combines elements of an annotated bibliography and an encyclopaedia to offer a time-saving resource. Annotations indicate what is included in the work whilst personalisation features allow saving, annotating and sharing of citations and searches. King's has access to the following modules:  African American StudiesBiblical StudiesClassicsIslamic StudiesPhilosophyVictorian Literature
Oxford Handbooks Online Oxford Handbooks Online covers many different subject areas and the series contains in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field. King's has access to all collections.
Oxford Reference Online Oxford Reference Online: The Core Collection brings together 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries, reference books and Encyclopedias, into a single cross-searchable web database. The Premium Collection offers all of these, plus added functionality and more detailed information from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series, plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. ORO provides integrated, consistent coverage of a broad range of subjects: everything from General Reference, Language and Quotations to Science and Medicine, and from Humanities and Social Sciences to Business and Professional.
Oxford Scholarly Editions Online Oxford’s scholarly editions provide trustworthy, annotated primary texts for scholars and students. OSEO currently includes writers active between 701 and 1901, plus Classical Latin and Greek authors from Aristotle, Austen, Bentham, Catullus, Dickens, and Donne through to Plato, Virgil and Wordsworth. It contains over 1,500 scholarly editions — the equivalent of more than 760,000 print pages.
Oxford Scholarship Online An essential research resource for students, scholars, and academics, Oxford Scholarship Online provides access to prestigious academic books across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine. Available online on Oxford Academic, scholars and students can discover these academic books alongside Handbooks, Very Short Introductions, practitioner medicine and psychology texts, and hundreds of the highest quality journals. King's subscribes to the full or partial sets listed below and has access to some additional single titles:Business & ManagementClassical Studies 2007 – 2013Economics & FinanceHistory 2011 – 2013LawLiterature 2011 – 2013Music 2011 – 2013PhilosophyPolitical ScienceReligion

Find print books for Theology & Religious Studies

Key classmarks for print books:

BL1-2790- Religions, mythology, rationalism
BM1-990- Judaism
BP 1-605- Islam, Bahaism, theosophy
BQ1-9800- Buddhism
BR1-1725- Christianity
BS1-2970- The Bible
BT1-1480- Doctrinal Theology
BV1-5099- Practical Theology
BX1-9999 - Denominations and sects.

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Acta Sanctorum The Acta Sanctorum Database is an electronic version of the complete printed text of Acta Sanctorum. It is a collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organised according to each saint's feast day, and runs from the two January volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940.The Acta Sanctorum Database contains the complete Acta Sanctorum, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indices.
Atla Religion Database (Atla RDB) with AtlaSerials (Atlas) Produced by Atla, a membership association of collectors and connectors in religion and theology, this database combines the premier indexing from Atla Religion Database® (Atla RDB®) with AtlaSerials® (Atlas®), one of Atla's online full-text collections of major religion and theology journals. The Atla Religion Database® (atla RDB®) is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion, with coverage from 1949 and retrospective indexing for some journal issues as far back as the nineteenth century.
Brill Encyclopedia of Christianity Online The Encyclopedia of Christianity Online describes modern-day Christian beliefs and communities in the context of 2000 years of apostolic tradition and Christian history. It is based on the third, revised edition of the critically acclaimed German work Evangelisches Kirchenlexikon, and includes all 5 volumes of the print edition of Encyclopedia of Christianity 1999-2008 which has become a standard reference work for the study of Christianity past and present.
Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts A resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, the Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras. Senate House resources require registering for Senate House library membership. See also our library FAQ for more details.
Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation A resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, the Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras.  Senate House resources require registering for Senate House library membership. See also our library FAQ for more details.
Encyclopaedia of Islam Online The Encyclopaedia of Islam (Second Edition) Online sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World. This unique reference tool is an essential key to understanding the world of Islam: the religion, its followers and the countries in which they live.
Encyclopaedia of Judaism Online (Brill) The Encyclopaedia of Judaism Online offers an authoritative, comprehensive, and systematic presentation of the current state of scholarship on fundamental issues of Judaism, both past and present. More than 200 entries cover a range of topics from the classical literature of Judaism and its history to contemporary issues such as genetic engineering.
Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān Online The Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān Online is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur’ānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur’ānic studies. Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān Online includes direct access to 62 Early Printed Western Qur’āns Online and the Electronic Qurʾān Concordance, a unique online finding aid for textual research.
Past Masters: Philosophy & Religion collections Searchable scholarly, full-text editions in English and/or Latin, of the writings of philosophers and theologians from antiquity into the 20th century. Writers in these collections include: Aristotle, Austin, Locke, Hegel and Wittgenstein among others. King's has access to the selected content only:Aquinas: Collected WorksAristotle: Complete WorksAustin: WorksBritish Philosophy: 1600-1900Continental Rationalists, TheDavidson: Philosophical Essays (2nd Release)Hegel: OUP TranslationsLocke: Philosophical Works, Select CorrespondencePolitical Philosophy: Machiavelli to MillScotus: WorksWittgenstein: Collected Works  
Patrologia Graecae This database contains 161 volumes including an index. It is a complete electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Graecae (1857-1856). It is a collection of medieval texts from late antiquity through the high Middle Ages. Texts are in the original Greek with some translations into English, German, and French.
Patrologia Latina Database An electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. The Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. The Patrologia Latina Database contains the complete Patrologia Latina, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes. Migne's column numbers, essential references for scholars, are also included.
Religious Magazine Archive‎ (1845–2015) A searchable archive of magazines devoted to religious topics, spanning 19th-21st centuries. The publications were originally written by/for a wider populace rather than academic/cultural elites and offer insights into, for example, the influence of belief systems on public life, the history of popular religious movements and the means used by religions to gain adherents and communicate their ideologies. A wide variety of religions and denominations are represented, allowing for comparative studies of religions during this period.Coverage: 1845 - 2015
Theology and Society Online Theology and Society is a comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and ninth centuries CE, it remains the most detailed study of scholarly networks in the early phase of the formation of Islam.
Twentieth Century Religious Thought Twentieth Century Religious Thought Library is a multivolume, cross-searchable online collection that brings together the seminal works and archival materials related to worldwide religious thinkers from the early 1900s until the first decade of the 21st century. It provides resources to further explore Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations and key concepts in theology across religions, including Eastern Religions. It supports research and teaching in comparative religion, theology, world religion, religion and law, religion and politics, and serves as an important resource for courses and scholarship in Middle Eastern studies, social theory, feminist studies, philosophy, and world history.

Find literature online for Arts & Humanities

The following eresources cover a range of disciplines:

Proquest Arts & Humanities collection A collection of ProQuest databases in the Arts & Humanities subject area for King's users. Additional databases may be available via Senate House
JSTOR ebooks and journals JSTOR offers academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Via JSTOR books, King's currently has access to over 54,000 titles from over 42 publishers.King’s subscribes to the following collections within JSTOR: 19th Century British PamphletsArts & Sciences I-XV CollectionBusiness I CollectionBusiness II CollectionIreland CollectionJewish StudiesLanguage & Literature CollectionLife Sciences CollectionMusic CollectionPolitical ScienceFilm StudiesLanguage and LiteraturePhilosophyReligionSociologyBusiness and Economics
Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) PAO – formerly PCI Full Text - is a major online periodical archive that contains hundreds of journal backfiles in the humanities and social sciences. The date range is 1770-2000. A hive of hundreds of digitised journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It provides researchers with access to more than 200 years of scholarship, spread across a wide variety of subject areas. Please note King's College London users have access to Collections 1 to 10 and JISC special collections 1 and 2.
Project MUSE Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content; since 1995, its electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. MUSE books and journals, from leading university presses and scholarly societies, are fully integrated for search and discovery. King's only subscribes to selected journals.
Ebook Central - King's Ebook Central is an ebook platform. King’s have purchased over 21,200 titles covering a range of subjects and provides further access to over 176,350 titles.
Humanities Index (1962-) An international abstracting and indexing tool available via ProQuest for research in the humanities. HI indexes over 400 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK. It covers current affairs, political science, religion, law, history, archaeology, education, economics, environment and gender studies.Updated monthly with approximately 1,500 records added; it also has the capability to link to electronic full text of many journal articles

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