Databases

The Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple, sponsored by the Special Collections of Library and Information Access at San Diego State University, is designed to give personal and scholarly perspectives on a major event in the history of religion in America. 

Its primary purpose is to present information about Peoples Temple as accurately and objectively as possible. Included are remembrances of those who died and those who survived the tragedy of 18 November 1978 in order to respect their lives and humanize their deaths; documentation of the numerous government investigations into Peoples Temple and Jonestown through materials released under the Freedom of Information Act; and a presentation of Peoples Temple and its members in their own words: through articles, tapes, letters, photographs and other items.

The Atla Digital Library brings together digital collections of scholarly, historical, and cultural significance that are relevant to the study, teaching, and learning of religion and theology.

Database of Religious History is designed to serve as a centralized clearinghouse for scholarly knowledge of the historical record, bringing together a core of quantified, standardized data with qualitative comments, references to crucial resources, and links to on-line text and image databases.

For scholars, researchers, teachers and the general public, the DRH functions as a gateway to reliable, comprehensive knowledge concerning the history of religions around the world, and cultural history more generally.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Holocaust Encyclopedia is the most visited and comprehensive Holocaust resource online today. It provides the public, educators, faculty, students, and scholars with hundreds of articles, access to digitized collections, critical thinking and discussion questions, lesson plans, oral histories, videos, and much more.

The Latin America Collection at Princeton Theological Seminary, enhanced by the donated library of President Emeritus John A. Mackay in 1983, comprises over 28,000 books in Spanish and Portuguese and 1,300 periodicals supporting instruction and research in Latin American religious culture. The Library’s collecting concentration on religion and theology in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and South America is closely interwoven with Latin American collecting at Princeton University.

La Colección Latinoamericana en el Seminario Teológico de Princeton, renovada por la biblioteca donada por el presidente emérito John A. Mackay en 1983, cuenta con más de 28,000 libros en publicaciones periódicas españolas y portuguesas y 1,300 publicaciones periódicas apoyan la enseñanza y la investigación en la cultura religiosa de América Latina. La colección de la Biblioteca sobre religión y la teología ubicada en México, América Central, el Caribe y América del Sur está estrechamente entrelazada con la colección Latinoamericana de la Universidad de Princeton.

LGBTQ Religious Archives Network (LGBTQ-RAN) is an innovative venture in preserving history and encouraging scholarly study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) religious movements around the world.

The Oxford Handbooks Online collection is a trusted source for scholarly research reviews. Each Handbook contains in-depth, high-level articles by preeminent scholars reviewing the key issues, analyzing points of contention, and outlining arguments for advancing the discussion. Students and faculty have access to all handbooks in the Religion Collection plus any Oxford Handbook titles that are open access.

Titles included in the Religion collection cover topics such as Religious Space, the Bible and American Popular Culture, the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible, Religion and Race in American History, and much more.

The Theological Commons is a digital library of over 150,000 resources on theology and religion. Developed in partnership with the Internet Archive, it contains books, journals, audio recordings, photographs, manuscripts, and other formats dating from 975 C.E. to the present.

The Unitarian Universalist Congregations guide, curated by the Harvard Divinity School Library, is a collection of publications and manuscripts in the public domain that chronicle major events events in the life of historically Unitarian and Universalist congregations in the United States.