LibGuides: Religion: Books & eBooks

Books from the UC San Diego Library and beyond

Library catalogs are good places to begin looking for books & e-books by keyword, author, title, or subject. Hint: to search the fulltext of millions of books (not all of them available online) use Google Books.

Looking for a journal article? Search by the title of the journal (not the title of the article).

Search UCSD (Roger)
Hint: To find e-books on your topic, limit your search to "electronic materials".

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Use to find books, e-books, videos, and other materials available from the UCSD Libraries. Search by author, title, subject, or keyword.

To view only records for e-books, limit your search to “electronic materials”. To get the e-book, click on the link in the Roger record.

Many e-books can only be viewed by UCSD students/faculty/staff and require proxy or VPN for off-campus use.

Circuit
Is the book you need checked out? Use Circuit to request a copy from another SD library! Use to find books owned by libraries in San Diego (UCSD, SDSU, USD, CSUSM, SD City and SD County Public Library systems). Use Circuit Request function to borrow books from other San Diego libraries. (NOTE: e-books at other libraries will not be available)
Melvyl
Not finding enough at UCSD? Check to see what is available at other UC campuses & request an interlibrary loan. Use to find books, etc. owned by libraries at other University of California campuses. Use Request function to borrow books from other UC campuses. (NOTE: e-books at other libraries will not be available)

A large and growing number of scholarly ebooks are included in both the JSTOR and Project Muse databases, which are described under the tab for Articles.

Sacred Texts

Internet Sacred Text Archive
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Largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet. The site is dedicated to religious tolerance and scholarship, and has the largest readership of any similar site on the web.
The Bible in English
Full text of 20 editions/translations of the Bible in English, dating from the 10th through the 20th centuries.

Browsing Religion Books in Geisel Library

The books in Geisel Library are arranged by a system called Library of Congress Classification. The letters and numbers ("call numbers") on the label applied to the spine of each book represent this classficiation. The call numbers are used to keep the books in order, arranged by subject and subarranged by author. Books on the relgion are generally shelved with in the range of call numbers beginning with BL through BX.

BL = Religions (general and by region)

BM = Judaism

BP = Islam

BQ = Buddhism

BR = Christianity (especially history of)

BS = The Bible (text and works about)

BT & BV = Theology

BX = Christian Demoniations (BX800+ = Catholicism; BX4795+ = Protestanism)

For more detailed information about how religion books are arranged within the BL-BX classification, go to the offical Library of Congress page.