RE 313: Race, Religion,
and Discourse
SP 250: Critical Analysis
 Research Guide
Fall 2007
Professor: Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Steve Klien
Librarian: Brent Etzel, Margi Rogal
Research Goals for assignment:
Students will
conduct ethnographical research of local African American congregations for a
group-written research paper. Students will be able to contextualize their
anthropological fieldwork historically.
Reference Books
Contemporary American Religion
REF BL 2525 .C65 2000
This is a two-volume encyclopedia that contains information on several faith
communities in the United States. Each entry includes text that explains
trends within the faith community.
Encyclopedia of African American
Religion
REF BR 563 .N4 E53 1993
As the title suggests, this book will be especially useful for students research
denominations that are made up primarily of black Americans.
Encyclopedia of African and
African-American Religion
REF BL 2462.5 .E53 2001
Encyclopedia of American Religion
History
REF BL 2525 .Q44 1996
A concise, two-volume encyclopedia that includes entries for American
denominations as well as significant church leaders and religious movements in
the United States.
Encyclopedia of the American
Religious Experience
REF BL 2525 .E53 1998 (3 volumes)
New Historical Atlas of Religion
in America
REF BR 98 .E4 N4 2000
This large and colorful reference book contains detailed information on the
history of denominations within the United States, as well as helpful maps that
illustrate growth, decline, and migration of American Christian denominations.
Also includes are sections explaining the religion within ethnic groups in the
United States.
Worldmark Encyclopedia of
Religious Practices
REF BL 80.3 .W67 2006
A three-volume reference work in comparative religion, the first volume breaks
down the trends and issues of specific denominations within Christianity.
Circulating Books
ALiCat
Thomas Tredway Library's online book catalog. For this assignment, search for
materials by either using "Boolean Search" (using and, or, not; putting phrases
in quotes), or "Browse Subject." Here are some terms to use:
African Americans—Communication
African Americans—Race Identity
African Americans—Religion
African American Churches
Black theology
I-Share Libraries (combined catalogs of
most Illinois academic libraries)
A direct link to the combined catalogs of Augustana and other
academic libraries in Illinois. The I-Share catalog makes available over 30
million records, most of which are available through interlibrary loan.
Online Databases
America: History & Life
This is an index to the history of the United States and
Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database
comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries. Limited to six simultaneous
users.
AnthroSource
Developed by the American Anthropological Association
(AAA), AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online,
including current issues for 15 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed
publications (including American Anthropologist, American
Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and Medical
Anthropology Quarterly) and an electronic archive of all AAA journals.
ComAbstracts
A comprehensive database of articles and books in human
communication studies, this database offers indexing to over 125 journals.
Search by keyword, phrase, or author. Citations and abstracts, not full text,
are provided. We may have the journal in full text in another database or in
hard copy.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
This database provides an invaluable resource for
students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of
communication and mass media. The database offers full text for over 200 titles
and contains citation coverage for additional sources.
Religion Index (ATLA)
A database containing citations and full text to more than
1100 international journals, essays, and publications in religion and related
fields. This will be a useful resource when trying to find information on the
history and demographics of faith communities in the United States and throughout the world.
Sociological Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in
sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Websites
American Religion Data Archive
A collection of quantitative data
from surveys. From the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Purdue
University.
Religion on the Web
The following information
is intended as a guide and starting point for locating religious studies
information on the web. Faculty in the Religion Department and the Library have
collected some of the most appropriate web resources for the kind of work done
here at Augustana. Included are links to the official websites of
nearly every denomination in the United States.
Websites of
African-American Christian Denominations:
Last updated September 14, 2007.
Created by Brent Etzel, Reference Librarian.
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