Getting Started
- Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new windowLiterary guide to significant sources on a variety of subjects. Works as an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.
- Oxford Research Encyclopedias This link opens in a new windowIncludes many articles and references and historiography for subjects such as Obeah, African American religious practices in the Low country, etc. Can select encyclopedia of Latin American history, Religion, or African History. Excellent starting point for research.
- Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new windowArticles and books on Archaeology, Classical Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology. Some content in Business & Management, Economics & Finance, Literature, Psychology, and Religion.
- Oxford Reference This link opens in a new windowReference sources published by Oxford University Press. Dictionaries, subject reference works, language reference sources and key titles in the Oxford Companion series. Some examples are: the Oxford-Duden German dictionaries, A Dictionary of Psychology, A Dictionary of Zoology, The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms, A Dictionary of Writers and Their Works, Oxford Companion to Western Art, Oxford Companion to U.S.History, Oxford Companion to Music, Oxford Companion to Philosophy, and The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, etc.
- Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new windowFull-text access to almost 500 reference volumes, this is a good place to start for background information and suggested sources, both primary and secondary.
- Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American BiographyScroll down to search within the work.
African Religions: Beliefs and Practices Through History by ISBN: 9781610697521Publication Date: 2018Listing of each religion with encyclopedic description of beliefs and practices and recommended source.
Related E-books
The Cambridge History of Religions in America by ISBN: 1107013348Publication Date: 2012-Overview article by Sylvester Johnson on "African Slave Religions,1400-1700" includes Kongolese religious practices ,French Louisiana slave religion, Protestant conversion, etc.
Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the African Diaspora by ISBN: 9780807012215Publication Date: 1995Religion in the African diaspora: Vodou, Candomble, Santeria, and the Black Church.
World of a Slave: Encyclopedia of the Material Life of Slaves in the USISBN: 9780313349430Articles and documents on slave-made objects, canoes, schools, linens, caricatures, dance, music, abolition imagery, etc.
Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage by ISBN: 9780313334801Publication Date: 2007Traces the experience of slaves on the trans-Atlantic passage (e.g., ships, handbooks for slave traders). Overview article on religion begins on p. 321.
