Bibliography of encyclopedias: religion

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This is a list of encyclopedias as well as encyclopedic and biographical dictionaries published on the subjects of religion and mythology in any language.

Contents

Entries are in the English language unless specifically stated as otherwise.

General religion and mythology

Agnosticism and atheism

Ancient Greek and Roman religion

Baha'i Faith

Bible

Biblical archaeology

  • Avi-Yonah, Michael, ed. (1975–1978). Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land[Entsiklopedyah la-hafrot arke'ologiyoi be-Erets Yisrael]. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. [24]
  • Blaiklock, Edward M.; R. K. Harrison, eds. (1983). The New International Dictionary of Biblical Archaeology. Grand Rapids, MI: Regency Reference Library, Zondervan. [6] [24]
  • Cabrol, Fernand, Henri Leclercq, Henri Marrou. Dictionnaire d'archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie. Letouzey et Ané, 1907–[1953]. [5]
  • Negev, Avraham, ed. (1972). Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land. New York: Putnam's. [6] [24]
  • Negev, Avraham, Shimon Gibson. Archaeological encyclopedia of the Holy Land. Continuum, 2001. ISBN   0-8264-1316-1. [5]
  • Pfeiffer, Charles F., ed. (1966). The Biblical World: A Dictionary of Biblical Archaeology . Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House. [24]
  • Stern, Ephraim. The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land. rev. ed., Simon & Schuster, 1993. [6]

Buddhism

Chinese Buddhism

  • Hackmann, Heinrich Friedrich, ed. (1951–1954). Erklarendes Worterbuch zum chinesischen Buddhismus (in German). Leiden: Brill. [32]
  • Soothill, William Edward and Lewis Hodous (1937). A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhism Terms. London: Kegan Paul. [30]
Zen Buddhism
  • Baroni, Helen Josephine. The illustrated encyclopedia of Zen Buddhism. Rosen, 2002. ISBN   0-8239-2240-5. [5]

Nichiren Buddhism

  • Montgomery, Daniel B. Fire in the lotus : the dynamic Buddhism of Nichiren. Mandala, 1991. ISBN   1-85274-091-4.

Chinese religion

Chinese Buddhism

  • Hackmann, Heinrich Friedrich, ed. (1951–1954). Erklarendes Worterbuch zum chinesischen Buddhismus (in German). Leiden: Brill. [32]
  • Soothill, William Edward and Lewis Hodous (1937). A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhism Terms. London: Kegan Paul. [30]
Zen Buddhism
  • Baroni, Helen Josephine. The illustrated encyclopedia of Zen Buddhism. Rosen, 2002. ISBN   0-8239-2240-5. [5]
  • Fischer-Schreiber, Ingrid, Stephan Schuhmacher, Gert Woerner. The encyclopedia of Eastern philosophy and religion: Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Zen. Shambhala, 1989. ISBN   0-87773-433-X. [5]

Confucianism

  • Yao, Xinzhong. RoutledgeCurzon encyclopedia of Confucianism. Routledge, 2003. ISBN   0-7007-1199-6. [5]

Taoism

  • Fischer-Schreiber, Ingrid, Stephan Schuhmacher, Gert Woerner. The encyclopedia of Eastern philosophy and religion: Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Zen. Shambhala, 1989. ISBN   0-87773-433-X. [5]
  • Fischer-Schreiber, Ingrid, Werner Wünsche. The Shambhala dictionary of Taoism. Shambhala, 1996. ISBN   1-57062-203-5. [5]
  • Pas, Julian F., Man Kam Leung. Historical dictionary of Taoism. Scarecrow Press, 1998. ISBN   0-8108-3369-7. [5]

Christianity

Christian art

  • Giorgi, Rosa, Stefano Zuffi. Saints in art. J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003. ISBN   0-89236-717-2. [18]
  • Rochelle, Mercedes. Post-Biblical saints art index: A locator of paintings, sculptures, mosaics, icons, frescoes, manuscript illuminations, sketches, woodcuts, and engravings, created from the 4th century to 1950, with a directory of the institutions holding them. McFarland, 1994. ISBN   0-89950-942-8. [18]
  • Sill, Gertrude Grace. Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art. Macmillan, 1975. [40]
  • Speake, Jennifer. The Dent dictionary of symbols in Christian art. J. M. Dent, 1994. ISBN   0-460-86138-7. [18]

Biography

  • Anderson, Gerald H. Biographical dictionary of Christian missions. Macmillan Reference USA, 1998. ISBN   0-02-864604-5. [5]
  • Biographisch-bibliographisches Kirchenlexicon. Hamm, Westfalia: Verlag Traugott Bautz. 1975–1978.. Also available online here. [14] [37]
  • Biographical dictionary of Chinese Christianity. Overseas Ministries Study Center, 2006–. Available online here. [14]
  • Bowden, Henry Warner, ed. (1977). Dictionary of American Religious Biography . Westport, CT: Greenwood Pr. ISBN   9780837189062. [37]
  • Carey, Patrick W., Joseph T. Lienhard. Biographical dictionary of Christian theologians. Greenwood Press, 2000. ISBN   0-313-29649-9. [5] [14]
  • Haag, Eugene; Emile Haag, eds. (1846–1859). La France protestante (in French). Paris: Cherbuliez. [37]
  • Larsen, Timothy, D. W. Bebbington, Mark A. Noll. Biographical dictionary of evangelicals. InterVarsity Press, 2003. ISBN   0-8308-2925-3. [5] [14]
  • Moyer, Elgin Sylvester, ed. (1982). Wycliffe Biographical Dictionary of the Church (Revised ed.). Chicago: Moody Press. [37]
  • Musser, Donald W., Joseph L. Price. A new handbook of Christian theologians. Abingdon Press, 1996. ISBN   0-687-27803-1. [5] [14]
  • Overseas Ministries Study Center. The dictionary of African Christian biography. Overseas Ministries Study Center, 2002–. Available online here. [14]
  • Sprague, William Buell, ed. (1857–1869). Annals of the American Pulpit. New York: R. Carter. [37]
  • Weis, Frederick Lewis (1936). The Colonial Clergy and the Colonial Churches of New England. Lancaster, MA.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) [37]
  • Weis, Frederick Lewis (1950). The Colonial Clergy of Maryland, Delaware and Georgia . Lancaster, MA.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) [37]
  • Weis, Frederick Lewis (1957). The Colonial Clergy of the Middle Colonies. Worcester, MA: Amer. Antiquarian Soc. [37]
  • Weis, Frederick Lewis (1955). The Colonial Clergy of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Boston, MA.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) [37]
  • Who's Who in Religion (2nd. ed.). Chicago: Marquis. 1977. [37]
  • Williams, Ethel I. (1975). Biographical Dictionary of Negro Ministers (Third ed.). Boston: G. K. Hall. [37]
Saints

Christian history

  • Di Bernardino, Angelo. Encyclopedia of the Early Church. Oxford University Press, 1992. [5] [42]
  • Ferguson, Everett, Michael P. McHugh, Frederick W. Norris. Encyclopedia of early Christianity. Garland, 1998. ISBN   0-8153-3319-6. [5] [42]
  • Hillerbrand, Hans Joachim. The Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation. Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN   0-19-506493-3. [5]
  • Jouanna, Arlette. Histoire et dictionnaire des guerres de religion. R. Laffont, 1998. ISBN   2-221-07425-4. [43]
  • Ollard, S. L., Gordon Crosse, Maurice Francis Bond. A dictionary of English church history. A.R. Mowbray; Morehouse-Gorham, [1948]. [5]

Christian liturgy and worship

  • Bradshaw, Paul F. The new Westminster dictionary of liturgy and worship. Westminster John Knox Press, 2002. ISBN   0-664-22655-8. [5]
  • Pfatteicher, Philip H. A dictionary of liturgical terms. Trinity Press International, 1991. ISBN   1-56338-026-9. [5]
Roman Catholic liturgy and worship

Christian philosophy and theology

  • Carey, Patrick W., Joseph T. Lienhard. Biographical dictionary of Christian theologians. Greenwood Press, 2000. ISBN   0-313-29649-9. [5] [14]
  • Fabella, Virginia, R. S. Sugirtharajah. Dictionary of Third World theologies. Orbis Books, 2000. ISBN   1-57075-234-6. [5]
  • González, Justo L., Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi, Suzanne E. Hoeferkamp Segovia. The Westminster dictionary of theologians. Westminster John Knox Press, 2006. ISBN   0-664-22989-1. [5]
  • Hart, Trevor A., Richard Bauckham. The dictionary of historical theology. Paternoster Press; W. B. Eerdmans, 2000. ISBN   1-84227-002-8. [5]
  • McGrath, Alister E. The Blackwell encyclopedia of modern Christian thought. Blackwell, 1993. ISBN   0-631-16896-6. [5]
  • McGuckin, John Anthony. The Westminster handbook to patristic theology. Westminster John Knox Press, 2004. ISBN   0-664-22396-6. [5]
  • McKim, Donald K. Westminster dictionary of theological terms. Westminster John Knox Press, 1996. ISBN   0-664-25511-6. [5]
  • Muller, Richard A. Dictionary of Latin and Greek theological terms: Drawn principally from Protestant scholastic theology. Baker Book House, 1985. ISBN   0-8010-6185-7. [5]
  • Musser, Donald W., Joseph L. Price. New and enlarged handbook of Christian theology. Abingdon Press, 2003. ISBN   0-687-09112-8. [5]
  • Musser, Donald W., Joseph L. Price. A new handbook of Christian theologians. Abingdon Press, 1996. ISBN   0-687-27803-1. [5] [14]
Augustine of Hippo
  • Fitzgerald, Allan, John C. Cavadini. Augustine through the ages: An encyclopedia. W.B. Eerdmans, 1999. ISBN   0-8028-3843-X. [11]
  • Mayer, Cornelius Petrus, Erich Feldmann. Augustinus-Lexikon. Schwabe, 1986–1996. ISBN   3-7965-0854-5. [11]
Christian ethics
  • Childress, James F. & John Macquarrie. The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Ethics. rev. ed., Westminster, 1986. [34]
  • Harrison, R. K. Encyclopedia of Biblical and Christian Ethics. rev. ed., Thomas Nelson, 1992. [34]

Eastern Orthodox Church

  • Day, Peter D. The liturgical dictionary of Eastern Christianity. Liturgical Press, 1993. ISBN   0-8146-5848-2. [5]
  • Langford-James, Richard Lloyd (1923). A Dictionary of the Eastern Orthodox Church. London: Faith Pr. [44]
  • Parry, Kenneth, John F. Hinnells. The Blackwell dictionary of Eastern Christianity. Blackwell, [2000]. ISBN   0-631-18966-1. [5]
  • Prokurat, Michael, Alexander Golitzin, Michael D. Peterson. Historical dictionary of the Orthodox Church. Scarecrow Press, 1996. ISBN   0-8108-3081-7. [5]

Evangelicals

  • Balmer, Randall Herbert. Encyclopedia of evangelicalism. Baylor University Press, 2004. ISBN   1-932792-04-X. [5]
  • Hillerbrand, Hans Joachim. The encyclopedia of Protestantism. Routledge, 2004. ISBN   0-415-92472-3. [5]
  • Krapohl, Robert H., Charles H. Lippy. The evangelicals: A historical, thematic, and biographical guide. Greenwood Press, 1999. ISBN   0-313-30103-4. [5] [14]
  • Larsen, Timothy, D. W. Bebbington, Mark A. Noll. Biographical dictionary of evangelicals. InterVarsity Press, 2003. ISBN   0-8308-2925-3. [5] [14]
  • Lewis, Donald M. The Blackwell dictionary of evangelical biography: 1730–1860. Blackwell, 1995. ISBN   0-631-17384-6. [5] [14]
  • Moreau, A. Scott, Harold A. Netland, Charles Edward van Engen. Evangelical dictionary of world missions. Baker Books; Paternoster Press, 2000. ISBN   0-8010-2074-3. [5]

Mormonism

  • Bitton, Davis. Historical dictionary of Mormonism. Scarecrow Press, 2000. ISBN   0-8108-3797-8. [5]
  • Hillerbrand, Hans Joachim. The encyclopedia of Protestantism. Routledge, 2004. ISBN   0-415-92472-3. [5]
  • A Latter-Day Saint library: Including the encyclopedia of Mormonism/Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Infobases, 1998. [5]
  • Ludlow, Daniel H. Encyclopedia of Mormonism. Macmillan, 1992. ISBN   0-02-904040-X. [5]

Oriental Orthodox churches

  • Day, Peter D. The liturgical dictionary of Eastern Christianity. Liturgical Press, 1993. ISBN   0-8146-5848-2. [5]
  • Parry, Kenneth, John F. Hinnells. The Blackwell dictionary of Eastern Christianity. Blackwell, [2000]. ISBN   0-631-18966-1. [5]
Coptic Orthodox Church
  • Atiya, Aziz. The Coptic encyclopedia. Macmillan; Collier Macmillan Canada; Maxwell Macmillan International, 1991. ISBN   0-02-897025-X. [5] [26] [42]

Patrology

  • Altaner, Berthold; Alfred Stuiber, eds. (1961). Patrology [Patrologie] (2nd. ed.). New York: Herder. [45]
  • Dizionario patristico e di antichita cristiane (in Italian). Marietti: Casale Monferrato. 1983. [45]
  • McGuckin, John Anthony. The Westminster handbook to patristic theology. Westminster John Knox Press, 2004. ISBN   0-664-22396-6. [5]
  • Quasten, Johannes, ed. (1950–1960). Patrology. Lancaster, MD: Newman. [45]

Protestantism

  • Hillerbrand, Hans Joachim. The encyclopedia of Protestantism. Routledge, 2004. ISBN   0-415-92472-3. [5]
  • Melton, J. Gordon. Encyclopedia of Protestantism. Facts On File, 2005. ISBN   0-8160-5456-8. [5]
Anabaptist–Mennonite
  • Dyck, Cornelius J., Dennis D. Martin. The Mennonite encyclopedia: A comprehensive reference work on the Anabaptist-Mennonite movement. Mennonite Brethren, 1955–1990. ISBN   0-8361-3105-3. [5]
  • Hege, Christian; Christian Neff, eds. (1913–1967). Mennonitosches Lexikon. Frankfurt am Main: Authors. [46]
  • The Mennonite Encyclopedia. Hillsboro, Kansas: Mennonite Brethren Publ. House. 1955–1959. [46]
Anglican
  • Buchanan, Colin Ogilvie. Historical dictionary of Anglicanism. Scarecrow Press, 2006. ISBN   0-8108-5327-2. [5]
Church of England
  • Cockford's Clerical Directory (88th ed.). Oxford: University Press. 1980–1982. [47]
  • Fasti ecclesiae anglicanae, 1066–1300 (Rev. ed.). London, Institute of Historical Research: Athlone Pr. 1968–1977. [47]
  • Fasti ecclesiae anglicanae, 1541–1857 (Rev. ed.). London: Athlone Press. 1969–1979. [47]
  • Harford, George; Morley Stevenson, eds. (1912). The Prayer Book Dictionary. London: Pitman. [48]
  • LeNeve, John, ed. (1854). Fasti ecclesiae anglicanane. Oxford: University Press. [47]
  • Ollard, S. L., Gordon Crosse, Maurice Francis Bond. A dictionary of English church history. A.R. Mowbray; Morehouse-Gorham, [1948]. [5]
Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States
  • Clerical Directory of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. New York: Church Hymnal Corp. 1898–1968. [49]
  • Episcopal Clerical Directory. New York: Church Hymnal Corp. 1975. [49]
  • Harper, Howard V. (1975). The Episcopalian's Dictionary. New York: Seabury Pr. [50]
  • Hein, David, Gardiner H. Shattuck. The Episcopalians. Praeger, 2004. ISBN   0-313-22958-9. [5]
  • Wall, John N., Philippa J. Anderson. A dictionary for Episcopalians. Cowley Publications, 2000. [5]
Baptists
  • Brackney, William H. Historical dictionary of the Baptists. Scarecrow Press, 2009. ISBN   978-0-8108-5622-6. [5]
  • Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists (Rev. ed.). Nashville: Broadman. 1958–1982. [51]
  • Leonard, Bill. Dictionary of Baptists in America. InterVarsity Press, 1994. ISBN   0-8308-1447-7. [5]
Brethren
Charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity
  • Burgess, Stanley. Dictionary of Charismatic and Pentecostal Movements. Zondervan, 1989. [42]
  • Burgess, Stanley M. Encyclopedia of Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity. Routledge, 2006. ISBN   0-415-96966-2. [5]
  • Burgess, Stanley M., Ed M. Van der Maas. The new international dictionary of Pentecostal and charismatic movements. Zondervan, 2002. ISBN   0-310-22481-0. [5]
  • DuPree, Sherry Sherrod. Biographical dictionary of African-American, Holiness-Pentecostals, 1880–1990. Middle Atlantic Regional Press, 1989. ISBN   0-9616056-9-3. [5]
Church of Scotland
  • Macgregor, Malcolm (1934). The Sources and Literature of Scottish Church History. Glasgow: McCallum. [48]
  • Scott, Hew, ed. (1915). Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae (Rev. ed.). Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd (variable). [48]
  • Watt, Donald Elmslie Robertson (1969). Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae medii aevi ad annum 1638. 2nd draft. Edinburgh: Smith & Ritchie Ltd. for the Scottish Record Society. [48]
Lutheran
  • Bodensieck, Julius, ed. (1965). The Encyclopedia of the Lutheran Church . Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House. [5] [46]
  • Gassmann, Günther, Duane H. Larson, Mark W. Oldenburg. Historical dictionary of Lutheranism. Scarecrow Press, 2001. ISBN   0-8108-3945-8. [5]
  • Luecker, Erwin L., ed. (1975). Lutheran Cyclopedia (Rev. ed.). St. Louis: Concordia. [46]
  • Nielsen, Fredrik; Andersen, Johannes Oskar (2010). Kirke-Leksikon for Norden (in Danish). BiblioBazaar. ISBN   978-1-149-77602-5.
  • Wiederaenders, Robert C. Historical guide to Lutheran church bodies of North America. Lutheran Historical Conference, 1998. [5]
Methodist
Holiness movement
  • DuPree, Sherry Sherrod. Biographical dictionary of African-American, Holiness-Pentecostals, 1880–1990. Middle Atlantic Regional Press, 1989. ISBN   0-9616056-9-3. [5]
  • Kostlevy, William. Historical dictionary of the Holiness movement. Scarecrow Press, 2009. ISBN   978-0-8108-5832-9. [5]
Quakers
  • Abbott, Margery Post, Mary ELlen Chijioke, Pink Dandelion. Historical dictionary of the Friends (Quakers). Scarecrow Press, 2003. ISBN   0-8108-4483-4. [5]
  • Hinshaw, William Wade, Thomas Worth Marshall. Encyclopedia of American Quaker genealogy. Genealogical Pub., 1991. ISBN   0-8063-0178-3. [53]
Reformed
  • Benedetto, Robert, Donald K. McKim. Historical dictionary of the Reformed Churches. Scarecrow Press, 2010. ISBN   978-0-8108-5807-7. [5]
  • McKim, Donald K., David F. Wright. Encyclopedia of the Reformed faith. Westminster/John Knox Press; Saint Andrew Press, 1992. ISBN   0-664-21882-2. [5]
  • Reformed Church in America. Commission on History, ed. (1978). Historical Directory of the Reformed Church in America, 1628–1978 (2nd. ed.). Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. [50]
Congregationalism
  • Peel, Albert. The Congregational two hundred, 1530–1948. Independent Press, [1948]. [5]
Seventh-day Adventism
  • Land, Gary. Historical dictionary of Seventh-Day Adventists. Scarecrow Press, 2005. ISBN   0-8108-5345-0. [5]
Shakers
  • Duffield, Holley Gene. Historical dictionary of the Shakers. Scarecrow Press, 2000. ISBN   0-8108-3683-1. [5]
Unitarian Universalism
  • Harris, Mark W. Historical dictionary of Unitarian Universalism. Scarecrow Press, 2004. ISBN   0-8108-4869-4. [5]
United Church of Christ
  • Peel, Albert (1948). The Congregational Two Hundred, 1530–1948. London: Independent Pr. [50]

Roman Catholic Church

  • Addis, William E.; Thomas Arnold, eds. (1957). A Catholic Dictionary (16th ed.). London: Routledge and Paul. [54]
  • Annuario pontificio per l'anno. Tipografia poliglotta vaticana, 1912–. ISSN   0390-7252. [5]
  • Attwater, Donald, ed. (1958). A Catholic Dictionary (3rd ed.). New York: Macmillan. [54]
  • The Catholic Encyclopedia Dictionary. New York: Gilmary Soc. 1941. [55]
  • Bouyer, Louis, ed. (1965). Dictionary of Theology[Dictionnaire theologique]. New York: Desclee. [54]
  • Broderick, Robert. The Catholic Encyclopedia. rev. ed., Thomas Nelson, 1987. [6]
  • Bunson, Matthew, Margaret Bunson, Timothy M. Dolan. OSV's encyclopedia of Catholic history. Our Sunday Visitor, 2004. ISBN   1-59276-026-0. [5]
  • Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Encyclopedia Pr. 1907–1922. [5] [6] [9] [56]
  • Collinge, William J. Historical dictionary of Catholicism. Scarecrow Press, 1997. ISBN   0-8108-3233-X. [5]
  • Coppa, Frank J. Encyclopedia of the Vatican and papacy. Greenwood Press, 1999. ISBN   0-313-28917-4. [5]
  • Coulter, Michael L. Encyclopedia of Catholic social thought, social science, and social policy. Scarecrow Press, 2007. ISBN   978-0-8108-5906-7. [5]
  • Dictionnaire de theologie catholique (in French). Paris: Letouzey. 1909–1950. [54]
  • Enciclopedia cattolica (in Italian). Vatican City: Enciclopedia Cattolica. 1949–1954. [54]
  • Glazier, Michael, Monika Hellwig. The modern Catholic encyclopedia. Liturgical Press, 2004. ISBN   0-8146-5219-0. [5]
  • Hardon, John A. (1980). Modern Catholic Dictionary . New York: Doubleday. ISBN   9780385121620. [57]
  • McBrien, Richard P., Harold W. Attridge. The HarperCollins encyclopedia of Catholicism. HarperCollins, 1995. ISBN   0-00-627931-7. [5]
  • Migne, Jacques Paul, ed. (1845–1866). Encyclopedie theologique (in French). Paris: Migne. [54]
  • Murray, Alan V. The Crusades: An encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, 2006. ISBN   1-57607-862-0. [58]
  • New Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: McGraw-Hill. 1967–1979. ISBN   9780070102354. [6] [54]
  • New Catholic encyclopedia. Thomson/Gale; Catholic University of America, 2003. ISBN   0-7876-4004-2. [5]
  • Nevins, Albert J., ed. (1965). Maryknoll Catholic Dictionary. Wilkes-Barre, PA: Dimension Books. [57]
  • O'Carroll, Michael, ed. (1983). Theotokos: A Theological Encyclopedia of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Rev. ed.). Wilmington, Delaware: M. Glazier. [57]
  • Rahner, Karl; et al., eds. (1968–1970). Sacramentum Mundi: An Encyclopedia of Theology. New York: Herder & Herder. [54]
  • Wetzer, Heinrich Joseph, ed. (1882–1901). Wetzer und Welte's Kirchenlexikon. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder. [54]
Biography
Roman Catholic popes
  • Coppa, Frank J. Encyclopedia of the Vatican and papacy. Greenwood Press, 1999. ISBN   0-313-28917-4. [5]
  • Coppa, Frank J. The great popes through history: An encyclopedia. Greenwood Press, 2002. ISBN   0-313-29533-6. [5] [14]
  • Kelly, J. N. D., Michael Walsh. The Oxford dictionary of Popes. Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN   978-0-19-861433-3. [5] [14]
  • Levillain, Philippe. The papacy: An encyclopedia. Routledge, 2002. ISBN   0-415-92228-3. [5]
  • Mann, Horace Kinder (1925–1932). The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages. London: Kegan Paul. [59]
Documents
Eastern Catholicism
  • Day, Peter D. The liturgical dictionary of Eastern Christianity. Liturgical Press, 1993. ISBN   0-8146-5848-2. [5]
  • Parry, Kenneth, John F. Hinnells. The Blackwell dictionary of Eastern Christianity. Blackwell, [2000]. ISBN   0-631-18966-1. [5]
Religious orders
  • Cottineau, L. H. (1935–1970). Repertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieures (in French). Macon: Protat. [59]
  • Dizionario degli instituti di perfezione (in Italian). Rome: Edizione Paoline. 1974–2003. [5] [59]
  • Helyot, Pierre (1859–1863). Dictionnaire des ordres religieux (in French). Paris: Migne. [59]
  • Knowles, David and Richard Neville Hadcock (1972). Medieval Religious Houses, England and Wales (Revised ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. [44]
  • de Troyer, Benjamin, ed. (1969–1970). Bio-bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica (in Dutch). Nieuwkoop.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) [44]
  • de Troyer, Benjamin, ed. (1974). Bio-bibliographia franciscana neerlandica ante seculum XVI (in Dutch). Nieuwkoop.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) [44]
Roman Catholic liturgy and worship

Hinduism

Islam

Qur'an

Sufism

Jainism

Judaism

Biography

  • Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. The dictionary of Jewish biography. Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN   0-19-522391-8. [5] [39]
  • Hyman, Paula, Deborah Dash Moore, Phyllis Holman Weisbard. Jewish women in America: An historical encyclopedia. Routledge, 1997. ISBN   0-415-91936-3. [14]
  • Lapide, Pinchas; Hilmar Schmuck, eds. (1994). Jewish biographical archive[Jüdisches biographisches archiv]. München, Germany: K. G. Saur. ISBN   3-598-33604-7. [5]
  • Lévy, Joseph Josy, Marc Eliany, Josué Elkouby. Dictionnaire biographique du monde juif sépharade et méditérranéen. Éditions Élysée, [2001]. ISBN   0-88545-098-1. Also available on the internet as Dictionnaire Biographique du Monde Juif Sépharade et Méditérranéen, here [14]
  • Marcus, Jacob Rader, Judith M. Daniels. The concise dictionary of American Jewish biography. Carlson Publ., 1994. ISBN   0-926019-74-0. [5] [14]
  • Morgenstern, Hans. Jüdisches biographisches Lexikon: eine Sammlung von bedeutenden Persönlichkeiten jüdischer Herkunft ab 1800. Berlin Münster: Lit, 2011. ISBN   978-3-7000-0703-6. [14]
  • Polner, Murray. American Jewish biographies. Facts on File, [1982]. ISBN   0-87196-462-7. [14]
  • Rosenbloom, Joseph R., ed. (1960). A Biographical Dictionary of Early American Jews. Lexington: University of Kentucky Pr. [68]
  • Who's who in Israel and Jewish personalities from all over the world. Bronfman, 1945–2001. [14]
  • Who's who in world Jewry. Pitman, 1955–1988. ISSN   0511-9138. [14]
  • Wininger, Salomon, ed. (1925–1937). Grosse judische National-Biographie (in German). Jerusalem: Talmudic Encyclopedia Inst. [69]

Handbooks

History

  • Abramson, Glenda, Dovid Katz. The Blackwell companion to Jewish culture: From the eighteenth century to the present. Blackwell Reference, 1989. ISBN   0-631-15111-7. [58]
  • Gribetz, Judah. Timetables of Jewish History: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History. Simon & Schuster, 1993. [64]
  • Kantor, Mattis. Jewish Time Line Encyclopedia. Jason Aronson, 1989. [64]
  • Neusner, Jacob, William Scott Green.Dictionary of Judaism in the biblical period: 450 B.C.E. to 600 C.E. Macmillan Library Reference, 1996. ISBN   0-02-897292-9. [5]
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Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Kister, 1994, p. 412.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Sheehy, 1986, p. 345.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Kister, 1994, p. 417.
  4. 1 2 3 Guide to Reference: Gender Studies
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 Guide to Reference: Religion
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Kister, 1994, p. 418.
  7. 1 2 Kister, 1994, p. 415–416.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Sheehy, 1986, p. 346.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Kroeger, 1911, p. 10.
  10. ↑ Guide to Reference: Astronomy
  11. 1 2 3 4 Guide to Reference: Philosophy
  12. ↑ Kister, 1994, p. 328.
  13. 1 2 Guide to Reference: Encyclopedias
  14. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Guide to Reference: Biography
  15. ↑ Sheehy, 1986, p. 345–346.
  16. 1 2 Guide to Reference: Anthropology and Ethnology
  17. 1 2 Kister, 1994, p. 416–417.
  18. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Guide to Reference: Art and Architecture
  19. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Kister, 1994, p. 417–418.
  20. 1 2 3 4 Sheehy, 1986, p. 354.
  21. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Sheehy, 1986, p. 355.
  22. 1 2 3 Kister, 1994, p. 412–413.
  23. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Sheehy, 1986, p. 356.
  24. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Sheehy, 1986, p. 357.
  25. ↑ Sheehy, 1986, p. 356–357.
  26. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Kister, 1994, p. 413.
  27. ↑ Sheehy, 1986, p. 3545–356.
  28. ↑ Sheehy, 1986, p. 354–355.
  29. 1 2 Sheehy, 1986, p. 382.
  30. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sheehy, 1986, p. 383.
  31. ↑ RoutledgeOnline.com.
  32. 1 2 Sheehy, 1986, p. 382–383.
  33. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Sheehy, 1986, p. 362.
  34. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Kister, 1994, p. 420.
  35. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Sheehy, 1986, p. 361.
  36. ↑ Sheehy, 1986, p. 361–362.
  37. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Sheehy, 1986, p. 363.
  38. ↑ Sheehy, 1986, p. 362–363.
  39. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Guide to Reference: History of Asia
  40. ↑ Kister, 1994, p. 325.
  41. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Sheehy, 1986, p. 364.
  42. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Kister, 1994, p. 416.
  43. 1 2 Guide to Reference: History of Europe
  44. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sheehy, 1986, p. 381.
  45. 1 2 3 Sheehy, 1986, p. 367.
  46. 1 2 3 4 5 Sheehy, 1986, p. 373.
  47. 1 2 3 4 5 Sheehy, 1986, p. 371.
  48. 1 2 3 4 Sheehy, 1986, p. 372.
  49. 1 2 3 Sheehy, 1986, p. 374.
  50. 1 2 3 Sheehy, 1986, p. 375.
  51. 1 2 Sheehy, 1986, p. 370.
  52. ↑ Kroeger, 1911, p. 17.
  53. ↑ Guide to Reference: Genealogy
  54. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Sheehy, 1986, p. 378.
  55. ↑ Sheehy, 1986, p. 378–379.
  56. ↑ Sheehy, 1986, p. 377.
  57. 1 2 3 4 5 Sheehy, 1986, p. 379.
  58. 1 2 3 Guide to Reference: General History
  59. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sheehy, 1986, p. 380.
  60. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Kister, 1994, p. 415.
  61. 1 2 Sheehy, 1986, p. 384.
  62. ↑ Sheehy, 1986, p. 384–385.
  63. ↑ Kroeger, 1911, p. 10–11.
  64. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Kister, 1994, p. 414.
  65. 1 2 Sheehy, 1986, p. 388.
  66. ↑ Sheehy, 1986, p. 388–389.
  67. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Sheehy, 1986, p. 389.
  68. ↑ Sheehy, 1986, p. 389–390.
  69. 1 2 3 4 Sheehy, 1986, p. 390.
  70. 1 2 Kister, 1994, p. 410.
  71. ↑ Kister, 1994, p. 408.
  72. ↑ Guide to Reference: History of the Americas
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  74. ↑ Kister, 1994, p. 421.

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