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General

• Encyclopedia of religion 19 vols.
• Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion, 2014.
• The Brill dictionary of religion -- 500 entries on the different theologies and doctrinal declarations of the official institutionalized religions as well as their role in daily life and public discourse.
• Worldmark encyclopedia of religious practices
• Encyclopedia of science & religion
• The HarperCollins dictionary of religion [print]
• The Concise Oxford dictionary of world religions -- Major and many minor religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Shinto, Sikhism, and Taoism.
• Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy

 Special

• Encyclopedia of religion and society [print]
• The encyclopedia of women and religion in North America. 3 vols. [print]
• Concise encyclopedia of language and religion [print]
• Homosexuality and religion: an encyclopedia [print]
• The religious traditions of Asia : religion, history, and culture / Joseph M. Kitagawa.

By Religion

Buddhism

• Encyclopedia of Buddhism
• Dictionary of Buddhism
• The A to Z of Buddhism [print]
• Bibliography of Asian Studies

Christianity

• The Catholic Encyclopedia -- Navigate the site using the alphabetical index at the top of the page.
• New Catholic encyclopedia
• The encyclopedia of Christianity [print]
• The Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation
• The Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church [print]
• Religion-online.org. Topics include Old and New Testament, Theology, Ethics, History and Sociology of Religion, Communication and Cultural Studies, Pastoral Care, Counseling, Homiletics, Worship, Missions and Religious Education.
• The Mennonite encyclopedia: a comprehensive reference work on the Anabaptist-Mennonite movement [print]

Bible and Bible Concordances

• The Bible: King James Version -- Old and New Testaments, with the Apocrypha.
• Bible Concordances -- Alphabetical lists of words or phrases indicating where those terms are found in the Bible.
• Bible Hub -- Online index featuring topical, Greek and Hebrew study tools, plus concordances, commentaries, dictionaries, sermons and devotionals.
• Complete concordance to the Old and New Testaments [print]
• Nelson's complete concordance of the New American Bible [print]

Hinduism

• A dictionary of Hinduism
• Concise classified dictionary of Hinduism [print]
• Encyclopedia of Hinduism (Routledge, 2008)
• The Hindu world

Islam

• Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim world
• Encyclopaedia of Islam [print]
• The Islamic world : past and present
• The Oxford dictionary of Islam
• The Oxford encyclopedia of the Islamic world
• The Koran / translated by M.H. Shakir [print]
• The Koran -- Searchable and browsable text
• The Koran: with a parallel Arabic text [print]
• Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an [print]

Judaism

• Jewish Encyclopedia
• A concise companion to the Jewish religion

Sikhism

• A popular dictionary of Sikhism
• Encyclopaedia of Sikh heritage [print]

Other

• A popular dictionary of paganism
• Mormonism: a historical encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia of new religious movements