Religious Studies (World Religions): Reference Works

A guide to the religions of the world and to the concepts, movements, people, and events that have shaped them.

This six-volume encyclopedia provides comprehensive, global coverage of religion, both larger religious communities and the world's smaller religious outposts. 225 experts from around the globe offer entries on every country of the world, the development of each of the 16 major world religious traditions through institutional expressions, and religious unbelief as expressed in atheism, humanism, and other traditions.

Since many rituals and festivals take place in public, such expressions of faith are societal as well as individual forms of human behavior. The Encyclopedia's entries are contributed by scholars from international universities and institutes. The cross-cultural coverage will help foster interfaith understanding as well as present and explain unfamiliar behaviors and rituals.

A 4-volume encyclopedia providing information on current religious practices around the world with an emphasis on how religions impact the daily lives of their followers. Vol.1, Religions of the World -- Vol. 2-4, Countries A to Z and their significant religions.

New religious movements--commonly known as cults--are defined as organizations that have arisen within the last 200 years. Despite their often unfavorable portrayal in popular culture, new religious movements are a global phenomenon. This updated second edition traces the rise and development of new religious movements throughout the world. The main body of the dictionary consists of close to 600 entries on key figures, ideas, themes, and places related to various new religious movements.

This encyclopedia outlines numerous philosophers, personalities, social issues, and cultural histories of religious practices throughout American history.

A comprehensive guide to spiritual traditions and practices of Native Americans in the U.S. and Canada.

This interreligious, interracial, and multicultural encyclopedia covers 25 years of scholarship on the history and recent state of women's religious experience in North America, with contributions from more than 150 scholars. Articles focus on institutions, movements, and ideas with biographical sketches interwoven into articles.

This dictionary covers historical and contemporary figures, arguments, and terms from world religions and sources, east and west.