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Need Help? Ask the Subject Librarian for Religion:
Lee Webb
Librarian, Saint Paul School of Theology
Dulaney-Browne Library, Room 206
(405) 208-5163
Email:lwebb@okcu.edu
Search the library's holdings (the catalog) using the search box above, or search multiple libraries’ holding through WorldCat.
Search EBSCOhost (including ATLA Religion Database and Academic Search Premier) using the search boxes above.
For more controlled searching, search ATLA Religion Database or Academic Search Premier without the other EBSCOhost databases. You can also search the Philosopher's Index.
Search JSTOR
Films from the library and the OCU Film institute may also be located through the library catalog. Type a broad term (for example for example “religion” or “mythology”) in the “Find” box and choose “videorecording” in the drop-down box labeled “Refine your search”
The online catalog, WorldCat, and EBSCOhost databases all use the Library of Congress Subject Heading system. This system has a distinct 19th century American bias, so some of the useful keywords may suprise you. Here are some examples of subject headings related to primal religions:
Anthropology and religion
Australian Aborigines
Cosmology, Amerindian
Creation – Comparative studies
Creation myth
Incantations
Indians of North America—Religion
Initiation rites
Magic
Mayas {or other specific tribe} – Religion
Medicine man
Mythology, Amerindian
Paleolithic period
Primitive societies
Religion – Origin
Religion, Prehistoric
Religion, Primitive
Rites of passage
Shamanism
Sociology and religion
Totemism
Tribes and tribal system
Witchcraft
200.3 En56 2005
Encyclopedia of Religion. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005.
200.3 D561b 1970
A Dictionary of Comparative Religion. New York: Scribner, 1970.
210 En192t 2005
The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005.
299.703 H616e2
Hirschfelder, Arlene B. Encyclopedia of Native American Religions: an Introduction. New York: Facts on File, 2000.
201.3 W893w 1993
World Mythology. New York: Holt, 1993.
201.3 L329 1989
Grimal, Pierre, ed. Larousse World Mythology. New York: Gallery Books, 1989.
A good internet source should include:
