Religion & Culture

REL 2901: Art in Non-Christian Religions

This page features resources for the course REL-2901: Art in Non-Christian Religions. You can find more by searching the Library catalogue, or look up databases and journals by title.

Suggested Keywords:

Art and religion
Architecture and religion
[religion name] art
[religion name] sculpture
[religion name] mural painting and decoration
[religion name] art and symbolism

Scholarly Journals

Material Religion
Explores how religion happens in material culture - images, devotional and liturgical objects, architecture and sacred space, works of arts and mass-produced artifacts - and the many different practices that put them to work. Ritual, communication, ceremony, instruction, meditation, propaganda, pilgrimage, display, magic, liturgy and interpretation constitute many of the practices whereby religious material culture constructs the worlds of belief.
Ars Judaica
Showcases the Jewish contribution to the visual arts and architecture from antiquity to the present from a variety of perspectives, including history, iconography, semiotics, psychology, sociology, and folklore.
Ars Orientalis
Annual volume of scholarly articles and book reviews on the art and archaeology of Asia, including the ancient Near East and the Islamic world. Fostering a broad range of themes and approaches, it is intended for scholars in diverse fields. Formerly "Ars Islamica".
Religion and the Arts
Promotes the development of discourses for exploring the religious dimensions of the verbal, visual and performing arts

Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibitions

Images and descriptions of artistic objects featured in curated exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Databases

AtlaSerials [EBSCOhost]

AtlaSerials combines an index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals. It includes citations from journals, essay, multi-author works, book review and multimedia. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association.

eHRAF World Cultures

eHRAF World Cultures contains ethnographic collections covering all aspects of cultural and social life. eHRAF is unique in having subject indexing at the paragraph level. This allows detailed and precise searching for concepts not easily found with keywords.

Bloomsbury Cultural History

Bloomsbury Cultural History is a digital reference tool comprising curated and illustrated reference works alongside extensive eBook and image collections. It offers an authoritative survey of a wide range of subjects throughout history. Each subject is looked at in Antiquity, the Medieval Age, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Age of Empire and the Modern Age and thematic coverage is consistent across all periods so that users can either gain a broad overview of a period or follow a theme through the ages.

Indigenous Studies Portal

The Indigenous Studies Portal (iPortal) connects faculty, students, and researchers to electronic resources, such as books, articles, theses, documents, photographs, archival resources, and maps.