Resources for Pacific Seminar II

Reference Books

The library has a number of reference books of potential use for research in this area. For example:

• Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion / edited by Serinity Young
  Ref BL458.E53 1999
• Women in World History: a Biographical Encyclopedia / Anne Commire, editor ; Deborah Klezmer, associate editor.
  Ref HQ1115.W6 1999
• A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs : a Reference Guide to more than 700 Topics Discussed by the Early Church Fathers / David Bercot, editor.
  Ref BR66.5.D53 1998
• Gale Virtual Reference Library:  An online collection of reference books.  You can search a single eBook, or across an eBook collection.
• Oxford Reference Online:  Another online collection of online reference books.  This includes dictionaries of the Bible, the Christian church, saints, and more.

Books

In PacifiCat, search under keywords such as “women and religion”, “early church and women”, or browse by subjects such as “women in Christianity -- history”, “monasticism and religious orders”, or  “Christian literature – early”. For example, look at:

• Goddesses and the Divine Feminine:  a Western Religious History / Rosemary Radford Reuther. [Electronic book ; click title to view]
• Fragmentation and Redemption:  Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion / Caroline Walker Bynum.  BT741.2. B95 1990
• Daughters of the Church: Women and Ministry from NewTestament Times to the Present / Ruth A. Tucker and Walter L. Liefeld.  BV639.W7 T83 1987

Articles

In addition to Academic Search Complete, try the following:

• JSTOR:  full-text of the backfiles of hundreds of scholarly journals, including history, culture, and religion
•  Arts and  Humanities:  Covers a wide range of humanities and religious studies topics.
• Project Muse culture, humanities, religion
• SpringerLink:  The section “humanities, social sciences and law” includes the full-text of many articles on religious studies.

Reliable Websites

Web sources you can trust!

• Patristics Bibliography #9:
  Useful lists of sources on women in the time of the early Church.
• Religious Life – Female:
  Another solid reading list on the lives of women in the early Church and medieval times.