Thomas Byrne Memorial Library, Spring Hill College
Compiled by Bret Heim, Instructional Librarian, MM, MSLIS

Each section contains references to encyclopedias, handbooks, bibliographies, principal scriptures, commentaries, history, and spirituality.

General ||  Indexes and Abstracts ||  Buddhism  ||  Confucianism  ||  Hinduism  || 
 Islam  || Judaism  || Princeton Readings in Religions  ||  Shinto  ||  Taoism  ||

Encyclopedias

Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. New York : Scribner, 1995.
DS57 .C55 1995 [4 Vols.] REFERENCE

Encyclopedia of Asian History. New York : Scribner, 1988.
DS31 .E53 1988 [4 Vols.] REFERENCE

Encyclopedia of World Cultures. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, 1991--.
GN307 .E53 1991 [10 Vols.] REFERENCE

The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1997.
BL31 .O9 1997 REFERENCE

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. New York : Routledge, 1998.
B 51 .R68 1998 [10 Vols.] REFERENCE

The Cambridge Ancient History, 3^rd ed. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1970-1998--.
D57 .C252 [18 Vols.] REFERENCE

The New Cambridge Medieval History. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995--.
D117 .N48 [5 Vols.] REFERENCE

Dictionary of the Middle Ages. New York : Scribner, 1982--.
D114 .D5 [13 Vols.] REFERENCE

Oxtoby, Willard Gurdon. World Religions : Eastern Traditions. New York : Oxford University
Press, 1996. BL80.2 .W66 1996 STACKS

-------. World Religions : Western Traditions. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
BL80.2 .W674 1996 STACKS

Smart, Ninian. Atlas of the World's Religions. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
G1046 .E4 .A8 1999 STACKS

American Theological Library Association. ATLAS Full-Text Plus. Chicago : American Theological
Library Association, 2000-. [Available via EBSCO Host to authorized SHC users from the Library WWW site]

-------. Religions of India in Practice. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1995.
BL 2001.2 .R384 STACKS

--------. Religions of Tibet in Practice. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1997.
BQ7620 .R45 1997 STACKS

Tanabe, George J. Religions of Japan in Practice. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1999.
BL 2202 .R48 1999 STACKS

Tanakh : a New Translation of the Holy Scriptures According to the Traditional Hebrew Text. Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 1985. BS895 .J4 1985 REFERENCE

The Classic Midrash : Tannaitic Commentaries on the Bible. New York : Paulist Press, 1995.
BM512 .C56 1995 REFERENCE

The Mishnah: A New Translation. New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1988.
BM 497.5 .E5 N48 1988 REFERENCE

Fields, Harvey J. A Torah Commentary for Our Times. New York, N.Y. : UAHC Press, 1990- 
BS1225.3 .F46 1990 VOL.1-2 STACKS

Halivni, David. A Commentary on the Palestinian Talmud : a Study of the Development of the Halakah and Haggadah in Palestine and Babylonia. New York : Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1971. 
BM498.8 .G55 1971 Vols.1-4. STACKS

Neusner, Jacob. The Blackwell Companion to Judaism. Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2000. 
BM42 .B54 REFERENCE

Werblowsky, R.J. Zwi. The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997. 
BM 50 .94 1997 REFERENCE

Giller, Pinchas. Reading the Zohar : the Sacred Text of the Kabbalah. New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. 
BM525 .A59 G55 2001 STACKS

Green, Arthur, ed. Jewish Spirituality I : From the Bible Through the Middle Ages. New York : Crossroad, 1986. 
BM 723 .J487 1986 Vol. 1 REFERENCE

Green, Arthur, ed. Jewish Spirituality II : the Sixteenth-Century Revival to the Present. New York : Crossroad, 1986.  
BM723 .J487 1986 Vol. 2 REFERENCE

The Koran with Parallel Arabic Text. New York : Penguin, 1995.
BP 109 .D3 1995 REFERENCE

Robinson, Neal. Islam, a Concise Introduction. Washington, DC : Georgetown University
Press, 1999. BP161.2 .R59 1999 STACKS

Taha, Mahmoud Mohamed. The Second Message of Islam. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1987.
BP163 .T28513 1987 STACKS

Esposito, John. The Oxford History of Islam. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
BP50 .O95 REFERENCE

-------. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. New York : Oxford University
Press, 1995. DS35.53 .O95 1995 Vol. 1-4. REFERENCE

Holt, P. M. The Cambridge History of Islam. Cambridge : Cambrige University Press, 1977.
DS35.6 .C3 1977 Vols. 1-4 STACKS

Lewisohn, Leonard. The Heritage of Sufism. Oxford : Oneworld, 1999.
BP189 .H47 1999 Vols. 1-3 STACKS

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. Islamic Spirituality I: Foundations. New York : Crossroad, 1991.
BP 161.2 .I8827 1991 REFERENCE

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. Islamic Spirituality II: Manifestations. New York : Crossroad, 1991.
BP 161.2 .I89 1991 REFERENCE

Lopez, Donald S. Buddhism in Practice. Princeton, Nj : Princeton University Press, 1995.
BQ 1012 .B83 1995 STACKS

Bodhi, Bhikkhu. The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha. : a New Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya. Boston : Wisdom Publications, 1995. BQ1312 .E5 N36 1995 REFERENCE

-------. The Connected Discourses of the Buddha : a New Translation of the Sa·myutta Nik¯aya. Somerville, MA : Wisdom Publications, 2000. BQ1332 .B63 E5 2000 VOL.1-2. REFERENCE

Heine, Steven. The Koan: Texts and Context in Zen Buddhism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
BQ9289.5 .K625 2000 STACKS

Walshe, Maurice O'C. The Long Discourses of the Buddha : a Translation of the Digha Nikaya. Boston : Wisdom Publications, 1995. BQ1292 .E53 W35 1995 REFERENCE

Crosby, Kate. The Bodhicary¯avat¯ara. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
BQ3142 .E5 C76 1998 STACKS [Mahayana Buddhism]

Machida, Soho. Renegade Monk : Honen and Japanese Pure Land Buddhism. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999. BQ8649 .H667 M23 1999 STACKS

Suzuki, Shunry¯u. Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness : Zen Talks on the Sandokai. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999. BQ9268 .S563 S89 1999 STACKS

Broughton, Jeffrey L. The Bodhidharma Anthology : the Earliest Records of Zen. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1999. BQ9299 .B623 E5 1999 STACKS

Dumoulin, Heinrich. Zen Buddhism : a History. New York : Macmillan, 1988-1990.
BQ9262.3 .D85513 1988Vols. 1-2 STACKS

Prebish, Charles S. Historical Dictionary of Buddhism. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1993. 
BQ130 .P74 1993 REFERENCE

Spirituality

Takeuchi, Yoshinori. Buddhist Spirituality : Indian, Southeast Asian, Tibetan, and Early Chinese. New York : Crossroad, 1993. BQ266 .B83 1993 REFERENCE

Scripture and Commentary

Goodall, Dominic, ed. Hindu Scriptures. Berkeley : University of California, 1996.
BL1111.3 .E5 H55 1996 STACKS

Dasgupta, Surendranath. A History of Indian Philosophy. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1922-1955. B131 .D3 Vols. 1-5 STACKS

Klostermaier, Klaus K. Hinduism : a Short History. Oxford : Oneworld, 2000.
BL1202 .K54 2000 STACKS

McLeod, W. H. Historical Dictionary of Sikhism. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1995.
BL2018 .M38 1995 REFERENCE

Sivaraman, Krishna. Hindu Spirituality I: Vedas Through Vedanta. New York: Crossroad, 1989. 
BL1212.72 .H55 1989 REFERENCE

Sundararajan, K.R. Hindu Spirituality II : Postclassical and Modern. New York : Crossroad Publishing, 1997.
BL1212.72 .H552 1997 REFERENCE

The Taoist Classics : the Collected Translations of Thomas Cleary. Boston : Shambhala, 1999.
BL1920 .T33 1999, Vols. 1-4 STACKS

Pas, Julian F. Historical Dictionary of Taoism. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1998.
BL1923 .P37 1998 REFERENCE

Nivison, David S. The Ways of Confucianism : Investigations in Chinese Philosophy. Chicago : Open Court, 1996. 
BL1840 .N56 1996 STACKS

Yao, Xinzhong. An Introduction to Confucianism. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
BL 1852 .Y36 2000 STACKS