How to Find Book Reviews in
Religion
Charles Bellinger
ATLA Religion Database
- created by the American Theological Library Association
- the main source for bibliographical citations of book
reviews in religion (more than 400,000)
- Go to TCU library home page: http://lib.tcu.edu/ ; click on Databases
> A > ATLA Religion Database. Type the title of the book in search
box (omit subtitle) and change type of search to "Book Title";
click on Search.
Academic Search Ultimate
- "Academic Search Complete is a large,
multidisciplinary database that abstracts and indexes over 9,000 journals
and includes the full text of 5,500 journals. More than 4,000 of the
journals are peer-reviewed." One of the publications available in
this database is Reviews in Religion and Theology.
- Go to TCU library home page: http://lib.tcu.edu/ ; click on Databases
> A > Academic Search Complete. Type the title of the book in search
box (omit subtitle) and change "Document Type" to Book Review ;
click on Search.
Book Review Digest Plus
- This database contains descriptive summaries of books,
citations for book reviews, and many full text book reviews for both
fiction and non-fiction.
- Go to TCU library home page: http://lib.tcu.edu/ ; click on Databases
> "B," then Book Review Digest Plus. Check the Book
Review Digest Plus box and put the book title in quotes: "terror in
the mind of god". Click Start.
Philosopher's Index
- "The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and
abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It
covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political
philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the
philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and
language."
- Go to TCU library home page: http://lib.tcu.edu/ ; click on Databases
> "P," then Philosopher's Index. Type in title and
choose Book Review under Document Type Phrase.
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