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Want concise and authoritative information about the goddess of your choice?

This is a list of reference books available in our library:

• Encyclopedia of American Religions. R 200.973 M528e.

• Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities.  R 291.21103 C855e

• Encyclopedia of Religion (16 volumes). R 291.0321 E56

• Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics (13 volumes).  R 200 H27

• Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion.  R 200.82 E56. 1998.

• Encyclopedia of World Faiths.  R 291 E56.

Finding books 

 You may also want to browse the 291.211 section in the stacks for books on goddesses.
   
 

Try these "official" Library of Congress subject headings in your catalog searches:

Goddess religion
Goddesses
    Goddesses, Celtic
    Goddesses, Greek
    Goddess, Hindu
Mother Goddesses
Femininity of God
Women and Religion

Names of many (not all!) individual goddesses also work as subject headings

Athena (Greek deity)
Isis (Egyptian deity)
Cybele (Goddess)
Kali (Hindu deity)
Lakshmi (Hindu deity)

If you have no luck using your goddess of choice in a subject search, try a keyword search with the same term.
 

Interlibrary Loan Services

Finding periodical articles

We have a print subscription to the following journal:  Sage Woman ("Celebrating the Goddess in Every Woman")

These are big, full-text databases that cover all subjects.  You must specify that you want to retrieve only peer-reviewed, scholarly articles. 

Academic Search Premier
Proquest Research Library
MasterFILE Premier
JSTOR

From the Warren Wilson College Library
 

•     The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Religion
•     The Harvard Pluralism Project.

You may want to try a  Google  search, clicking on "Images" after you put the name of  your goddess into the search box.  This will bring you a mixed bag of results, including commercial sites, but you may also be lucky and find artistic images of the goddess you are researching.
 

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Last updated:  October 12, 2006
by Chris Nugent