Religion & Theology Databases

This list is comprised of the best religion and theology databases available freely online or through Garrett and Northwestern. The latter will require active login credentials. Check out the Recommended Databases section to see some of the best options.

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These resources are new additions to the religion and theology databases.
Art in the Christian Tradition This link opens in a new window
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The Art in the Christian Tradition (ACT) database is a regularly updated visual image internet resource. Designed for scholars, students, pastors, and religious educators, all of the images may be used for non-commercial purposes, with attribution.
BASE This link opens in a new window
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"BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 300 million documents. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free."
China Historical Christian Database This link opens in a new window
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The China Historical Christian Database (CHCD) quantifies and visualizes the place of Christianity in modern China (1550-1950). It provides users the tools to discover where every Christian church, school, hospital, orphanage, publishing house, and the like were located in China, and it documents who worked inside those buildings, both foreign and Chinese. Collectively, this information creates spatial maps and generates relational networks that reveal where, when, and how Western ideas, technologies, and practices entered China. Simultaneously, it uncovers how and through whom Chinese ideas, technologies, and practices were conveyed to the West.
Database of Religious History This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s) The DRH is designed to serve as a centralized clearinghouse for scholarly knowledge of the historical record, bringing together a core of quantified, standardized data with qualitative comments.
Ingenta This link opens in a new window
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Ingenta contains thousands of free articles. Use this database to discover many free periodicals online. Make sure to select "All Free" from the Show options.
JURN This link opens in a new window
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"JURN is a unique search tool, helping you to find free academic articles and books. JURN harnesses all the power of Google, but focusses your search through a hand-crafted and curated index."
OAIster This link opens in a new window
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Created by OCLC, OAIster is an open access database that contains books, articles, archival files, movies, datasets, and more. All are freely available with a single click.
RefSeek This link opens in a new window
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"RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than five billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers."
Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) Papers This link opens in a new window
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SBL's annual meeting seminar papers from 1971-2003 are available online! Use this link to gain access through the Pitts Library at Emory University.
St Andrews Encyclopedia of Theology This link opens in a new window
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The St Andrews Encyclopedia of Theology is a nascent online, free-to-access encyclopaedia of the highest academic standards, treating the full discipline of Theology with rigor and clarity.
Syriaca This link opens in a new window
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The Syriac Reference Portal is a digital project for the study of Syriac literature, culture, and history. Today, a number of heritage communities around the world have linguistic, religious or cultural identities with roots in Syriac language and culture. Syriaca.org exists to document and preserve these Syriac cultural heritages.
The Free Library This link opens in a new window
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"Since 2003, The Free Library has offered free, full-text versions of classic literary works from hundreds of celebrated authors, whose biographies, images, and famous quotations can also be found on the site. Recently, The Free Library has been expanded to include a massive collection of periodicals."
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