Divinity and Religious Studies

Primo contains details of all the online and print materials available in the Library, and is the first place to begin searching for any academic materials that you may need to research, write and submit essays, assignments or dissertations.

You can access and search Primo online.

Consult our Primo Library Guides for more details on how to search this vital resource.

The University of Aberdeen subscribes to many important online collections, often called Academic Databases. These can contain different types of material, such as ebooks, journal articles, conference papers, newspapers and others. The material they contain is scholarly, of a high standard, and the kind of content you will need to engage with when preparing essays, assignments and dissertations. 

The databases below contain content relevant to Divinity & Religious Studies. The links below will take you to their entries in Primo, from which you will be able to access the sites themselves. You can also see details for all of our academic databases, across all subject areas, in Primo Find Databases.

Atla Religion database with Atla Serials
Compiled by the American Theological Library Association, Atla Religion Database provides citations to literature on all aspects of world religion, including education, ethics, history, liturgy, observances, rites, theology and religious perspectives on social issues. Atla contains millions of bibliographic records from documents such as journals, essays and book reviews.

Web of Science
A very important collection that you should use. Contains millions of records covering arts & humanities, including scholarly articles, book and other reviews, editorials, letters and biographical items. If WoS does not contain the material itself there will be a link that searches to see where else you might be able to access it.

JSTOR
A key resource across many arts and humanities disciplines, JSTOR is particularly useful for accessing older content, but also contains current scholarly materials or links to other possible locations.

Digital Karl Barth Library
All of Karl Barth’s published works to date.

Loeb Classical Library
Our entire Greek and Latin Classical heritage is represented here with up-to-date texts and accurate English translations. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern and elegant interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content with ease.

Twentieth Century Religious Thought, Volume I, Christianity
Supports comparative religion, theology, world religion, social theory, feminist studies, philosophy, and world history. 3,645 items, currently featuring more than 250 authors.

Religious Magazine Archive
A searchable archive of magazines devoted to religious topics, spanning 19th-21st centuries. The publications were originally written by/for a wider populace rather than academic/cultural elites and offer insights into, for example, the influence of belief systems on public life, the history of popular religious movements and the means used by religions to gain adherents and communicate their ideologies. A wide variety of religions and denominations are represented, allowing for comparative studies of religions during this period.

Ebook Central
This full text collection contains more than 220,000 authoritative books and maps supplied by over 180 leading scholarly publishers, including works on History, Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and many arts and humanities subjects. A really important collection that covers almost all subjects taught and researched at the University of Aberdeen.

There are many academic journals publishing articles that focus on Divinity & Religious Studies, amongst other subjects. This list below will take you to some of their entries in Primo from which you will be able to search or browse them online. You can search in Primo's Journal Search to find details of all our journals, online and in print.

Religion, brain & behavior

Psychology of religion and spirituality

Journal of religion and health

Journal for the scientific study of religion

Journal of beliefs and values

A large proportion of our academic journals are available online, however there are some titles that are only available in print or we only have a subscription to the print edition. The vast majority of the print journals for the subjects contained in the Sir Duncan Rice Library are located in our off-campus store, and can be requested via Primo and delivered to any of our three libraries. A small number of print journals are located on Floor 1 of SDRL, particularly the newest parts of some titles..

Here are the details for a few important Divinity & Religious Studies academic journals that may only be available in print. The links will take you to their Primo entry.

Journal of jewish studies

Theologische zeitschrift

Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses

While we have many online books covering Divinity & Religious Studies we also have a range of print titles that will be useful when studying or researching in this area. You can search in Primo for these titles, but here are a few of the physical locations, or shelfmarks, in the Sir Duncan Rice Library where you can browse the shelves and find relevant literature.

Correct and accurate referencing is a fundamental part of producing any piece of academic work, whether that is an assignment, an essay, a dissertation, a journal article or a book.

We have some excellent guidance on this available in our collection of Referencing Library Guides.

You will also find guidance on that page about a very useful piece of software called RefWorks. RefWorks is web-based reference management software that allows you to import and save references from online academic databases and other sources. You can then use these references when writing any piece of academic work, as RefWorks helps with formatting them in the correct referencing style.