Exciting New Online Encyclopedias!

Temple has just purchased electronic access to seven excellent encyclopedias, mainly on religious topics, through The Gale Virtual Reference Library, which is accessible from TUL homepage on the A-Z database list, the eBooks list, and in the Library Catalog. These specialized encyclopedias are great places to start research on unfamiliar topics, providing nice overviews, bibliographies, and linked cross-references. In addition to the great content, The Gale Virtual Reference Library interface is much more user-friendly than those of other e-book vendors, and each encyclopedia can be searched or browsed. Check out the links below!

1) Contemporary American Religion 2 volumes, 1999

• Examples: Angels; Astral Planes; Book of Common Prayer; Born Again Christians; Confucianism, and hundreds more

2) Encyclopedia of Buddhism 2 volumes, 2004

• Examples:Ascetic Practices; Buddhahood and Buddha Bodies; Consciousness, Theories of; Confucianism and Buddhism, and hundreds more

3) Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World 2 volumes, 2004

• Examples:Abu Bakr (573-674); Caliphate; East Asian Culture and Islam; Hadith, and hundreds more

4) Encyclopedia of Religion 2nd ed., 15 VOLUMES, 2005

• Examples: Aegean Religions; Akhenaton; Alphabets; Christian Ethics; Canaanite Religion, The Literature; Conservative Judaism, and thousands more

5) Encyclopedia of Science and Religion 2 volumes, 2003

• Examples: Anthropic Principle; Avicenna; Causation; Creationism; Descartes, Rene, and hundreds more

6) New Catholic Encyclopedia 2nd ed., 15 VOLUMES, 2003

• Examples: Abelard, Peter; Alexandria; Boston College; Celtic Religion; Celibacy, Clerical, History of, and thousands more

7) New Dictionary of the History of Ideas 6 volumes, 2005

• Examples: Anarchism ;Aristotelianism; Black Consciousness; Evolution; Free Will, Determinism, and Predestination, and hundreds

  --Fred Rowland