About the Religious Studies Collection

Find out more about the collection, including strengths, locations, and formats.

Collection Description
Cooperative Agreements
Electronic Book and Text Collections
Electronic Journals
New Acquisitions
Other Libraries and Special Collections
Purchase Recommendation Form

Collection Description

Religious studies materials are collected  in support of the research and teaching needs of those in the undergraduate Religious Studies program, as well as those in area studies departments, history, literature and other interdisciplinary fields.  Scholarly works on all of the world's major religions are collected.  Multimedia and electronic materials are as actively acquired as books and journals.  Most print materials in religious studies are in the Gardner (Main) stacks with additional core English language texts in the Moffitt Undergraduate Library.  The East Asian Library houses all materials in East Asian languages. The non-circulating collections in the Art History/Classics, South/Southeast Asia, Doe Reference and Graduate Services libraries may also be of use to those interested in religious studies.  Videos, DVDs and other multimedia materials are available for use in the Media Resources Center. Electronic materials are available on campus and to UC Berkeley-affiliated users from off-campus via our proxy server service

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Cooperative Agreements

The Library maintains a cooperative collection development policy with the Graduate Theological Union Library, which provides for the sharing of collecting responsibilities for various aspects of religious studies between the two institutions and offers reciprocal borrowing privileges for graduate students and faculty at Berkeley and GTU.  See Other Libraries & Special Collections.

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Electronic Book and Text Collections

Books and other texts in electronic form, available online either individually or as part of larger collections.

Electronic Resources Finder

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Electronic Journals

Journals in electronic form, available online either individually or as part of a larger collection. E-journals only available for the Berkeley campus are listed in Pathfinder. The California Digital Library maintains an alphabetical list of e-journals available to all UC libraries.

ATLA Religion Database
Search for articles by author or subject; link to full text by clicking on
the UC eLinks icon.

Religion, Electronic Journals available to UC Berkeley (CDL)

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New Acquisitions

Monthly lists of new acquisitions in Religious Studies.

May, 2008
April, 2008
March, 2008
February, 2008
January, 2008
December, 2007
November, 2007
October, 2007
September, 2007
August, 2007
July, 2007
June, 2007

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Other Libraries and Special Collections

Listings of relevant library collections (including links to their catalogs). Libraries and collections at Berkeley may also be listed under "Related Pages."

Graduate Theological Union Library.  2400 Ridge Rd, Berkeley, CA 94709, 510-649-2500.  A consortium library uniting the holdings of nine seminaries and which also has a cooperative arrangement with UC Berkeley. Collection strengths include Christian denominations, theology, practical theology, the Bible, church history and new American religious movements. Collections are available for use by UC Berkeley students with some restrictions. Holdings are listed in the UC System's Melvyl online catalog and the Union's own GRACE catalog.

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Purchase Recommendation Form

If you'd like to recommend an item to be added to the collection, please use the Purchase Recommendation Form.

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