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For Library research help, please contact Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Sociology / Anthropology by email (moninder_lalli@sfu.ca) or Ask a librarian

Essay

Start Your Research Here - This page gives you an overview of the research process, or in other words how to find materials for your essay.

Background information

Encyclopedia of global religion
Encyclopedia of religion
Encyclopedia of religion in America
The new Blackwell companion to the sociology of religion
The Oxford handbook of sociology of religion [print]
Routledge International Handbook of Veils and Veiling Practices

Journal articles

How to Find Journal Articles" tutorial

If the full-text of the article is not available, use the "Get@SFU" link to find it.

Sociological Abstracts - theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science
Social Sciences Full Text - broad coverage of social science journals
Anthropology Plus — key database for Anthropological journal articles
ATLA Religion Database - covers world religions
Index Islamicus - The international classified bibliography on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world
Women's Studies International - for topics related to feminism, feminist, gender, sexuality, and women's studies.
CBCA Complete - Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA) - indexes Canadian publications
Communication & Mass Media Complete - covers journals in the fields of communication and mass media studies
Social Theory - documents from prominent social sciences theorists
Annual reviews - Literature reviews and topic overviews in the sciences and social sciences.

Selected journals

Find books in the Library

Library Catalogue search guide

Search the SFU Library Catalogue

You can also use SFU Library Catalogue: Advanced Search

Combine different concepts using AND
Combine same concepts using OR
Use quotation marks to search for a phrase
Use brackets for synonyms
Use asterisk (*) for different endings of words

Note: For Catalogue Search, when combining concepts, use CAPITAL letters ( "OR", "AND")

Keyword searching

madagascar AND religi*
canad* AND religi*
[Name of a religion] AND [Geographic region]
religi* AND media AND (ethn* OR anthrop*)
religi* AND (migra* OR diaspor*) AND [name of a group]
religi* AND (internet OR "social media" OR "online communit*" )
- Results limited by selected subjects
religi* AND global*
(gender OR women) AND Sikh*
(islam* OR muslim) AND women AND religion AND (anthr* OR sociol*)
- Results limited by selected subjects
"anthropology of religion"
"sociology of religion"
- Results limited by selected subjects

You will find books such as: Sociology of Relgion: a Reader

Browse subject headings

Check subject headings of relevant titles in your list and click on the "subject" links. In addition, in Catalogue Search you can "browse by subject" to find books on a topic. Examples, below.

Anthropology of religion
Atheism
Religion
- Try browsing for the subheading "Religion" under names of countries, cities, ethnic groups
- Canada -- Religion
Religion and sociology

Google searching

Search tips for Google, Google Scholar, DuckDuckGo, and other search engines

Search results limited to words in the title of document, using "intitle:". Use capital "OR" for synonynms. Put braces "()" around words that mean the same thing.

intitle:Madagascar intitle:(feminist OR feminism)

Results

intitle:Madagascar intitle:Christianity

Results

Search for documents from a particular country's domain. The example below is for India, with country code of ".in"
Web country codes

site:.mg feminist Christianity

Bridging the divides