A Unique Collection of Archival Sources Essential to Religious Studies
The Religion Archive Collection brings together twelve primary source collections documenting the development of religious thought, theology, and philosophical inquiry across centuries and traditions. The collection provides access to foundational texts, archival correspondence, sermons, treatises, and historical documents that support teaching, learning, and advanced research across religious studies and related disciplines.
Includes Modern Religious Content
Connect religious thought to practice and understand how religion engages with society.
- Includes 20th century primary sources such as archival letters & correspondence, treatises & tracts, social & political writings, sermons, orations, scriptural commentaries, monographs and philosophical writings
- Delivers videos and religious magazines for a first-hand view into religious life in the last few centuries
- Covers Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Eastern religions supporting comparative religion research
- Brings feminist theologians and other previously marginalized and lesser-known voices to allow for more diverse perspectives on religion and theology
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Archival collections
Primary source pages
English Bible versions
Years of texts
Historical Christian Content
Trace the evolution of Christian thought and theology from the saints and the beginning of the Christian era through the Protestant Reformation.
- Offers electronic access to Acta Sanctorum; literature on the lives of the saints from the beginning of the Christian era to the end of the sixteenth century
- Includes the Patrologia Latina, or works of the Church Fathers, with the most influential works of late ancient and early medieval theology, philosophy, history, and literature
- Explores the Protestant Reformation from all perspectives with key writings from both Catholic and Protestant thinkers including Martin Luther and Sir Thomas More
- Contains 20 different versions of the English Bible, including 12 full Bibles, five New Testament texts, two versions of the Gospels, and William Tyndale's translations of the Pentateuch, Jonah, and the New Testament
- Presents a diverse selection of sources including polemical writings, theological treatises, historical writings, devotional works, scriptural commentaries, sermons, and pastoral writings
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Video
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ProQuest One Religion & Philosophy
ProQuest Central Premium
ProQuest One Academic Premium
Includes content from...
Twentieth Century Religious Thought Library
Volume I, Christianity
Volume II, Islam
Volume III, Judaism
Volume IV, Eastern Religions
Volume V, Religion in Video
Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts
Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation
Religious Magazine Archive
Acta Sanctorum
Patrologia Latina
Luthers Werke
The Bible in English
Highlighted Subjects
Biblical studies
Christianity
Church fathers
Eastern religions
Islam
Judaism
Reformation
Religious history
Saints
Theology
Types of Content
Primary source texts
Historical documents
Religious writings
Archival correspondence
Multimedia
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