Religion: A Guide to Library Research

Covers Catholicism and the humanities. In addition to the hundreds of new, signed articles on a wide variety of topics, this edition also features biographies of contemporary religious figures, thousands of photos, maps, and illustrations, and completely updated bibliographical citations.

Catholic, Protestant, and other Christian primary source materials, as well as Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist resources. Includes text and video.

Encyclopedia of religious subjects worldwide. Interdisciplinary articles cover a wide range of topics from history, archaeology, liturgy, law, bible, music, visual arts, politics, social sciences, natural sciences, ethics, and philosophy.

Detailed information on 9,000 Christian denominations and on religions in every country of the world. Extensive data are available on 238 countries and 13,000 ethno-linguistic peoples, as well as on 5,000 cities and 3,000 provinces. Updated quarterly.

International religious demographic statistics and sources.