RCC Library Subject Guide-World Religions

iLink is the RCC Online Catalog of all the materials available in the RCC Library. Also included are the holdings of 46 other community college libraries that make up the Community Colleges Libraries in North Carolina consortium (CCLINC). You can search the catalog by author, keyword, title, periodical title, series, or subject.

Eastern Religions: Origins, Beliefs, Practices, Holy texts, Sacred places (Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Shinto) (200.95 Eas)

The Rivers of Paradise : Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and Muhammad as Religious Founders
(291.63 Riv)

World Religions: Western Traditions (Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Islam) (291 Wor)

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Online reference collection featuring full-text content from hundreds of reference books covering a broad range of subjects. It’s a search engine like Google, but instead of searching the entire Internet, your results come from a comprehensive library of trusted reference sources without advertisements, clutter, or irrelevant hits.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (available through NC Live)
Searchable collection of E-Book reference titles including: Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, Encyclopedia of Religion and the Encyclopedia of Science and Religion.

NetLibrary (available through NC Live)
Provides easy access to the full text of more than 24,000 reference, scholarly, and professional books. Includes fiction and non-fiction titles.

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Academic Search Premier – Magazines and journals on many subjects including peer-reviewed and scholarly works

Britannica Online Academic Edition – Over 120,000 articles, an updated world atlas, thousands of images and videos, an online dictionary and thesaurus, over 300,000 articles from respected magazines and journals, news headlines, a guide to the Web's best sites, and much more

CQ Researcher Online – Offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy

MasterFile Premier – Covers a wide variety of topics from about 3,100 magazines and journals from 1984 to present

ProQuest Newspapers – Contains many full text articles from Christian Science Monitor; Los Angeles Times; New York Times; Wall Street Journal; and The Washington Post

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Provides a one-stop source of information on social issues; includes viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites and full-text magazine/newspaper articles.

Introduction to Islam
Online version of the 1988 book by M. Cherif Bassiouni, the purpose of which is "to convey to a non-Muslim audience an understanding of Islam, its history, culture, and contribution to civilization." Includes maps, charts, pictures, and drawings.

Judaism 101
An "online encyclopedia of Judaism, covering Jewish beliefs, people, places, things, language, scripture, holidays, practices and customs." Searchable and browsable. Created and maintained as a personal project by librarian Tracey Rich, "a traditional, observant Jew who has put in a lot of research."

Meeting God: Elements of Hindu Devotion
Created to accompany an exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History, this site explores aspects of Hinduism, including worship in the home, community, and temple. Other topics include the importance of daily prayers; the functions of processionals, shrines, images, vows, trances, possessions, and renunciation; and Hinduism's core center of the absolute divine. Searchable.

Religion & Ethics-Religions
Information on the history, beliefs, holy days, subdivisions, texts, places, rites & rituals, and ethics of the world's major religions. Includes related links. From the British Broadcasting Company (BBC).

Religion Online
Resources designed "to assist professors, scholars and general 'seekers' who are interested in exploring religious issues." This site aims "to develop an extensive library of hundreds of entries, presenting many different points of view, but all written from the perspective of sound scholarship." Contains nearly 5,500 articles in such topics as the Bible, practical theology, ethics, social issues, history of religion, and education. Includes links to over 200 full-text books. Searchable and browsable.

Resources for the Study of Buddhism
Contains a short introductory reading list; links to general sites, Sutras, and texts; and links and writings related to Buddhism and children, Theravada and Mahayana teachings, science, vegetarianism, animal welfare, death and dying, and respect for parents. Compiled by Dr. Ron Epstein, Philosophy Department, San Francisco State University.

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Evaluating Websites, Online Citation & Writing Tools

Citation Styles Online (using MLA, APA, Chicago, & CBE to cite online information)

Evaluating Websites: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly; or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Samples of APA Style (RCC approved)

Samples of MLA Style (RCC approved)

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