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- BL: Religions, Mythology, Rationalism
- BM: Judaism
- BP: Islam, Bahaism, Theosophy, etc.
- BQ: Buddhism
- BR: Christianity
- BS: The Bible
- BT: Doctrinal theology
- BV: Practical theology
- BX: Christian Denominations

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A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Religion by Bradley L. Herling
Call Number: BL41 .H445 2016
A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Religion provides an accessible, wide-ranging introduction to theories and basic methodology in the field.
Cults and New Religions by Douglas E. Cowan; David G. Bromley
Call Number: BL80.3 .C69 2015
This unparalleled introduction to cults and new religious movements has been completely up-dated and expanded to reflect the latest developments; each chapter reviews the origins, leaders, beliefs, rituals and practices of a NRM, highlighting the specific controversies surrounding each group.
The FBI and Religion by Sylvester A. Johnson (Editor); Steven Weitzman (Editor)
Call Number: HV8144.F43 F264
Publication Date: 2017
The FBI and Religion recounts this fraught and fascinating history, focusing on key moments in the Bureau's history.
Introduction to World Religions by Christopher Partridge
Call Number: BL80.3 .I58 2013
A leading textbook for world religion, this new edition is designed to help students in their study and research of the world's religious traditions.
A Little History of Religion by Richard Holloway
Call Number: BL80.3 .H65
Publication Date: 2016
Richard Holloway retells the entire history of religion--from the dawn of religious belief to the twenty-first century--with deepest respect and a keen commitment to accuracy.
The State and Religion in a Nutshell by Thomas Berg
Call Number: KF4865 .B47 2016
Expert narrative describes and analyzes the religious freedom issues that have occupied the Supreme Court's attention in recent decades and exploded into public debate in recent years.s.
Global Islam: a Very Short Introduction by Nile Green
ISBN: 9780190917234
Publication Date: 2020-11-01
This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the multiple versions of Islam propagated across geographical, political, and cultural boundaries during the era of modern globalization. Showing how Islam was transformed through these globalizing transfers, it traces the origins, expansionand increasing diversification of Global Islam - from individual activists to organizations and then states - over the past 150 years.

Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad by Paul Gwynne
Call Number: BL41 .G99 2014
It offers a trusty thematic guide to the figureheads of three of the largest religions in the world. The comparative approach is descriptive and even-handed, highlighting both similarities and differences across a range of major areas.
Does Religion Cause Violence? by Joel Hodge (Contribution by, Editor); Scott Cowdell (Contribution by, Editor); Chris Fleming (Contribution by, Editor); Carly Osborn (Editor)
Call Number: BP190.5.V56 D64 2018
This volume critically analyses the link made between religion and violence in contemporary theory and proposes that 'religion' does not have a special relation to violence in opposition to culture, ideology or nationalism.
Religion in America: the Basics by Michael Pasquier
Call Number: BL2525 .P355 2017
Religion in America: The Basics is a concise introduction to the historical development of religions in the United States.
Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology by Mary Evelyn Tucker (Editor); John Grim (Editor); Willis Jenkins (Editor)
Call Number: BL65.E36 R68 2017
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology provides the most comprehensive and authoritative overview of the field.
Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics by Jeffrey Haynes (Editor)
Call Number: BL65.P7 R78 2016
The second edition of this successful handbook provides the definitive global survey of the interaction of religion and politics.
Science and Religion by Yves Gingras
Call Number: BL240.3 .G56413 2017
In this book, historian and sociologist of science Yves Gingras retraces the long history of the troubled relationship between science and religion, from the condemnation of Galileo for heresy in 1633 until his rehabilitation by John Paul II in 1992.

Bringing the Sacred down to Earth by Corinne G. Dempsey
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2011
In Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth, Corinne Dempsey offers a comparative study of Hindu and Christian, Indian and Euro/American earthbound religious expressions.
Fundamentalist U : keeping the Faith in American Higher Education by Adam Laats
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2018
Adam Laats offers a provocative and definitive new history of conservative evangelical colleges and universities, institutions that have played a decisive role in American politics, culture, and religion.
Longing and letting go : Christian and Hindu practices of passionate non-attachment by Holly Hillgardner
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2017
This work explores and compares the energies of desire and non-attachment in the writings of two women mystics who lived in very different times and places: Hadewijch, a thirteenth-century Christian Beguine, and Mirabai, a sixteenth-century Hindu bhakti saint.
New models of religious understanding by edited by Fiona Ellis
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2018
New Models of Religious Understanding features contributions from leading scholars in the field, and cuts across the supposed divide between analytic and continental approaches to the subject and engages the interest of a broad range of philosophical and theological readers.
The spirit of early evangelicalism : true religion in a modern world by D. Bruce Hindmarsh
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2018
George Whitefield and the emergence of evangelical devotion -- Evangelical devotion and the transition to modernity -- The classical sources of evangelical devotion -- Evangelicals and the rise of science -- Evangelical spirituality and the natural world -- The making of the evangelical conscience -- Law and conversion in evangelical devotion -- Art and evangelical spiritual aspirations

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