Global Christian Heritage: 1900-Present
Steve Perisho is the librarian for Church History and the History of Theology
Office: #128 on the Main Level
Phone: 206 281 2417
Email: sperisho@spu.edu
Core Resources
- ATLA Religion Database & ATLA Serials - This database, produced by the American Theological Library Association, indexes journals and essay collections in religion, with links to full text. Its coverage extends from 1949 to the present, with some retrospective indexing underway.(SPU Only)
- Index Theologicus (lxTheo) - indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus Festschriften and congress publications. Its coverage extends from 1970 to the present.
Additional Resources
- Academic Search Premier - This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. Its coverage ranges from 1984 to the present, with some back files (to 1975) and searchable cited references available.(SPU Only)
- America: History and Life - This index of literature covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present, with indexing for 1,700 journals published as early as 1910.(SPU Only)
- Bibliography of the History of Art - This is a scholarly resource on European art from late antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial era to the present, and global art since 1945.(SPU Only)
- Dissertation Abstracts - covers the full range of academic subjects found in dissertations, with coverage extending from 1861 to the present.(SPU Only)
- Google Scholar - This search engine searches for scholarly research across many disciplines and sources. By starting your Google search from the SPU pages, the results will link to SPU-owned full-text.
- International Bibliography of Art - This is a scholarly resource on European art from late antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial era to the present, and global art since 1945.(SPU Only)
- JSTOR - offers digitized versions of core scholarly journals in many disciplines.(SPU Only)
- Literature by and about Karl Barth - offers an online, searchable bibliography of literature by and about the Swiss-German theologian Karl Barth (1886-1968). It contains information about both primary and secondary literature. At present, the database contains most publications from 1995 onward and is kept up to date. Bibliographic references to books and dissertations published prior to 1995 are available in the database, those of articles and reviews are being added gradually.
- MLA International Bibliography - MLA International Biography is a core index to literary criticism and the humanities, with emphasis on literature, folklore, languages, and linguistics. Its coverage extends from 1926 to the present.(SPU Only)
- Philosopher's Index - indexes journals and essay collections in philosophy and related fields, with some full text available online. Its coverage extends from 1940 to the present.(SPU Only)
- RAMBI: The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies - provides a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material listed in RAMBI is compiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of articles in the Jewish National and University Library. Coverage extends from 1966 to the present.
- Religion & Philosophy Collection - offers 300-plus full-text journals, covering world religions, denominations, biblical studies, history of philosophy & religion, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, and moral philosophy.(SPU Only)
- Research Library Complete - covers a broad range of topics, with coverage extending from 1971 to the present.(SPU Only)
- ViVa Women's History - ViVa is a current bibliography of women’s and gender history in historical and women’s studies journals. It offers descriptions of selected articles from 180 international journals, with coverage from 1975 to the present.
Print Resources
Religious and Theological Abstracts - Index Area, SPU Library.
Resources at Other Libraries
Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature - A University of Washington database.
Bibliography of Asian Studies - A University of Washington database.
Catholic Periodical and Literature Index.
Elenchus of Biblica - Lemieux Library Periodicals, Seattle University. Section XX on the history of the biblical sciences (Historia Scientiae Biblicae) is an ongoing index to the literature on the history of interpretation.
Historical Abstracts - A University of Washington database.
Revue d'Histoire Écclesiastique. Bibliographie - A University of Washington database, University of Washington Stacks.