This guide is meant to help you find Primary Source Materials on World Religions. It is not exhaustive but will get you started on finding primary source materials. It is broken down into General Religious sources, which tends to include a variety of world religions, Western (Eurocentric) Religions and Eastern Religions.
A good way to find additional sources is by looking in you secondary source materials. A lot of times primary sources will be reprinted in these sources or at the very least cited.
Also keep in mind how much language changes over time. You may need to use words in your searches that you wouldn't consider using normally.
Finally, if you find any really good websites, books, or other sources of World Religion primary sources please send them my way and I'll add them to this guide for others in your class.
Good luck!
Citations and some full-text for scholarly journals, essays, book reviews, and multi-author works from the American Theological Library Association.
Early English Books (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
Search the full-text of digital images for a wide range of books published from 1701-1800 in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
Full-text digitized collections from the RLUK (Research Libraries UK), including the Hume Tracts, Cowen Tracts on issues of the 1840s to 1880s, Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection, and more.
Full text of all Readex primary historical publications databases.
Formerly Accessible Archives. This link can be used to cross search the full collection. It is also possible to search individual collections (Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue; Pennsylvania County Histories; Civil War; Pennsylvania Newspaper Record, 1819-1870; African-American Newspapers, 19th Century) and single newspapers (The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1815; National Anti-Slavery Standard, 1840-1870; The Liberator, 1831-1865; The Lily, 1849-1853; National Citizen and Ballot Box, 1876-1881; The Revolution, 1868-1872; Frank Leslie’s Weekly, 1855-1922; and Godey’s Lady’s Book, 1830-1898).
Below is a list of useful websites for all World Religions. Many of the links are to research guides similar to this one at other universities or colleges so you may not have access to their databases but you can request materials like books and journal articles via Interlibary Loan.
