Selected Resources
for
IHON 252—Africa's Triple Heritage
October 9, 2008
Gail Egbers Libr 110
535-8869 egbersgl@plu.edu
FINDING
BOOKS: Our computerized catalog
provides access to the materials in our library.
Subject headings relevant to your topic include:
Africa,
Sub-Saharan—Religion
Islam – History
Africa—Civilization
Africa--Social life and customs
Christianity—Africa
AIDS (Disease) -- Africa
Yoruba (African people)--Religion
Sufism
FINDING
ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS: Indexes relevant to your topic
include:
| LOCATING PERIODICALS/JOURNALS: Journals
at PLU gives you access to the full-text journals we have
online and the call numbers of our print and microfilm periodicals. |
REFERENCE
MATERIALS
- African folklore : an
encyclopedia (REF GR350.A33 2004)
- Africana : the
encyclopedia of the African and African American experience (REF
DT14.A37435 2005)
- Britannica encyclopedia
of world religions (REF BL31.B75 2006)
- Dictionary of African
mythology : the mythmaker as storyteller (ref. BL2400.S24 2000)
- Dictionary of Third
World theologies (ref. BR95.D486 2000)
- Encyclopedia of African
history (REF DT20.E53 2005)
- Encyclopedia of African
history and culture (ref. DT3.P27 2001)
- Encyclopedia of African
and African-American religions (ref. BL2462.5.E53 2001)
- Encyclopedia of the
modern Middle East & North Africa (REF DS43.E53 2004)
- Encyclopedia of World
Cultures (ref GN307.E53 1991) (v. 9 is Africa and Middle East)
- Historical dictionary
of pre-colonial Africa (ref. DT17.C65 2001)
- New encyclopedia of
Africa (REF DT2.N48 2008)
- Oxford history of Islam
(ref. BP50.O95 1999)
- Religions of the world
: a comprehensive encyclopedia of beliefs and practices (ref.
BL80.3.R45 2002)
- Routledge Religious
Reference Resources Online (via PLU Library website)
- Science, religion, and
society : an encyclopedia of history, culture, and controversy
(REF BL240.3.S37 2007)
- World Christian
encyclopedia : a comparative survey of churches and religions in the
modern world (ref. BR157.W67 2001)
INTERNET
SOURCES
BEYOND PLU:
PLU's library may not own all of the materials you want to use.
You may either order them from Interlibrary Loan or go to a local
library personally.
To find books beyond PLU use WorldCat (via
PLU Library Website)
We are part of a consortium of
libraries that includes:
• Northwest University
• St. Martin's University
• University of Puget Sound
• Seattle Pacific University
• Seattle University
You may use your PLU ID card to check
out materials from these libraries
If you wish to order from
Interlibrary Loan, be sure to allow sufficient time for the materials
to arrive.
| If
you have questions while doing
library research, ask for help at the reference desk or make an
appointment with me for personal research assistance. My office
hours
are Tuesdays & Thursdays 3:00-5:00 |
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