Library Research Guide: History 211: Black Religious Traditions
(http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/faculty/hist211.html)
Prepared by Eric Kofi Acree and Petrina Jackson
Finding Background Material (Encyclopedias and Sourcebooks):
The materials listed below are a selection of reference resources for finding background information and context for topics you will be covering in this class. Note the call numbers and library locations for these materials and check the reference collections for additional sources of background information.
The authors of articles in reference books often provide bibliographies
of selected books and articles for further study.
Encyclopedia of Religion.
New York: MacMillan, 1987. Uris Ref. BL 31 E55+; also Olin Ref. (16
volumes)
The first truly comprehensive encyclopedia for religious topics. Entries
are alphabetically arranged. Essays are scholarly and accompanied by
a selective annotated bibliography. Excellent coverage of both Western
and Eastern religions.
Encyclopedia of African
and African-American Religions Glazier, Stephen D., ed. New York:
Routledge, 2001. Olin Ref. BL2462.5 .E53x 2001 +
Articles in this volume show that the history and culture of African
and African-American religion. Topics covered in this volume include
economics, colonialism, immigration, nationalism, pan-Africanism, civil
rights, religious freedom, missinization and conversion, and assimilation.
Encyclopedia of Islam
and the Muslim World. Martin, Richard C., ed. New York: Macmillan
Reference USA: Thomson/Gale, 2004. Olin Ref. BP 40 .E525x 2004 (2 volumes)
This two volume set is a sourcebook of information about Islam, its
past and present, addressed to students and general readers. The Encyclopedia
reflects the diversity of ideas and practices that have characterize
the Islamic world throughout history.
The Muslim Almanac:
A Reference Work on the History, Faith, Culture, and Peoples of
Islam. Nanji, Azim A., ed. New York: Gale Research, 1996. Olin
Ref. BP 40 .M98 1996
This book provides a perspective on the historical formations of the
worldwide Muslim community from Arabia to the Philippines; it protrays
the intellectual, spiritual, and institutional pluralism that has developed
during a history of over fourteen centuries.
Encyclopedia of Christianity. Fahlbusch, Erwin, ed. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Olin Ref. BR95 .E92 1999 + (3 volumes)
The entries, some of which are ten pages or more in length, provide historical and socio-cultural background as well as the theological definitions for topics that include places, themes, concepts, and people.
Directory of African American
Religious Bodies: A Comependium by the Howard University School of Divinity.
Payne, Wardell J., ed. Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1995.
Africana Ref. BR 563 .N4 D57x 1995
Some 1,000 entries provide information on contacts, key personnel, membership,
and publications of churches belonging to African American denominations.
Also listed are religious councils and ecumenical organizations, African
American religious education institutions, and African Americans with
scholarly interest in religion and religious studies. Includes historical
overviews of African American religious traditions, and numerous indexes.
Encyclopedia of African
American Religions. Murphy, Larry G., J. Gordon Melton, Gary L.
Ward, eds. New York: Garland Pub., 1993. Africana Ref. BR 563 .N4 E56
This encyclopedia covers African American religious leaders, groups,
and the major issues raised by the devlopment of African American religious
life.
An Encyclopedia of African American
Christian Heritage. McMickle, Marvin Andrew. Valley Forge, PA:
Judson Press, 2002. Africana Ref. BR563.N4 M353 2002 (Also in Olin's
collection)
This book will interest those seeking inspirational stories of African
Americans who embraced a life of service, not always within the Christian
Church. Chapters include denominational founders and leaders, preachers,
teachers, politicians, nationalists, singers, and movements.
African-American Holiness Pentecostal
Movement: An Annotated Bibliography. DuPree,
Sherry Sherrod. New York: Garland, 1996. Africana Ref. BX 8762.5 .D87x
1996
The research reported in this book is restricted to information by and
about African-American Pentecostalism in America from the period from
the 1880s to the present.
Routledge
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Online version of the 10-volume Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy.
Can be browsed by philosophical themes, philosophies, historical periods,
and religions. Full text entries can be searched by keyword, title,
contributor, or bibliography.
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture
& History Africana Library Reference E 185 .E54 1996 (Also
on Africana CD-ROM and can be accessed in History
Resource Center)
This multi-volume set presents the lives and significance of African
Americans in the broadest way possible. This encyclopedia has biographical
entries, as well as entries dealing with events, historical eras, legal
cases, areas of cultural achievement (music, architecture, the visual
arts), professions, sports, and places.
You may also use selected material placed on course reserve by your instructor to help you develop your topic and locate background information. Click on Course Reserves and select the instructor, department, course, or section for which you wish to search for items.
Whether you are clicking your way across the Web, searching for resources in the Cornell Library Catalog, or looking for scholarly articles in specialized subject databases, being aware of a few simple techniques can improve the effectiveness of your searches.
Do you know how to use the following search techniques?
- keywords vs. phrase searching
- boolean operators: AND, OR, NOT (for combining search terms)
- truncation and wildcard symbols (for finding singular, plural, and other keyword variations)
- field searching (for narrowing a search to specific parts of a record)
- controlled vocabulary (subject headings)
See the following sites for details on how to refine
and perfect your search results:
Introduction
to Database Searching Skills
Search
Strategies
Finding Books:
Cornell Library Online Catalog
About the CU Library Catalog:
The Cornell University Library Catalog includes the holdings of 19 Cornell
University libraries. (The Weill Cornell Medical Library, located in
New York City, has a separate catalog.) The catalog contains records
for books, computer files, government documents, manuscripts and archives,
maps, musical scores, periodicals, serials, sound recordings, and visual
materials received and cataloged since 1973. There are also records
for most pre-1973 items, and for items that are on order or in process.
You can limit your search to type of material and location.
Finding Articles:
Periodical indexes and abstracts are resources that identify and locate articles in journals, magazines, newspapers and books. Increasingly indexes are now available as online databases that will often provide access to the full text of the articles contained in these publications.
ATLA
Religion Database
comprehensive database that contains citations from international titles
and multi-author works in and related to the field of religion. It also
includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays
in multi-author works, book reviews, and Doctor of Ministry projects
from ATLA's print indexes: Religion index one (RIO), Religion index
two (RIT), and: Index to book reviews in religion (IBRR).
Black Studies On Disc (1989-present)
Africana CD-ROM or
Index to Black Periodicals Africana Periodicals (1984-2004) Z1361.N39
I38 (Also in Olin)
Information on materials by and about African
Americans, Africa and peoples of African ancestry. Includes catalog
of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and citations
from the Index to Black periodicals.
Black
Studies Database: Kaiser Index to Black Resources (1948-1986)
C overs events critical to the study of Black life and culture outside
of Africa including notable figures in Black history, culture, and sports;
the Civil Rights Movement; the growth of the NAACP and the National
Urban League; the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; jazz and
soul music; ... from more than 150 publications relevant to the Black
experience and African Diaspora.
Ethnic
News Watch
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines
and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
HarpWeek:
Electronic Access to Harper's Weekly (1857-1912)
An index to Harper's weekly magazine, presented in an alphabetical,
multi-level structure familiar to scholars, reference librarians, and
students alike. Also contains browsable full text of Harper's weekly.
Historical
Abstracts
This historical periodical database includes annotated references to
the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S.
andCanada which are covered in "America: History and Life").
Covers over 2000 journals, including historical journals from almost
every country and selections of journals in the social sciences and
humanities for researchers and students of history.
History
Resource Center
Provides an integrated collection of primary documents, secondary reference
sources, and journal articles covering all areas of U.S. history from
pre-colonial times to the present day. Includes full-text coverage of
approximately 65 periodicals of interest to students and historians
as well as access to the citations for history journals from the Arts
& humanities citation index.
Index
Islamicus
Index to literature on Islam, the Middle East and Muslim areas of Asia
and Africa, and Muslim minorities elsewhere. Includes citations to over
2,000 journals, conference proceedings, monographs, and book reviews
from 1906 to present.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a fully-searchable database containing the back issues of several
hundred scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, mathematics,
music, ecology and botany, business, and other fields. It includes the
following collections: Arts & sciences I, II and III, General science,
Ecology and botany, Business, Language and literature.
LexisNexis
Academic
Provides access to full text resources on topics including current and
general news; business and financial information; newspapers; company
directories; government and politics; medical and health topics; accounting,
auditing, and tax; federal and state laws; legal cases; and regulations.
Resources include TV and radio news transcripts.
Periodical
Abstracts
Available as part of the ProQuest Direct system, Periodical Abstracts
indexes and abstracts an extensive number of periodicals, covering general
interest magazines and scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities
and sciences.
PCI
(Periodicals Content Index) (1770-1993)
Electronic index to thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social
sciences, covering each periodical from its first issue. Every article
is indexed. The scope is international, including journals in English,
French, German, Italian, Spanish and other languages.
ProQuest
Historical Newspapers
This database offers full-text and full-image articles for newspapers
dating back to the 19th century. For most titles, the collection includes
digital reproductions of every page from every issue, cover to cover,
in downloadable PDF files. The database is an ongoing project. The New
York Times, 1851-2001 -- The Wall Street Journal, 1889-1987 -- The Washington
Post, 1877-1988.
African Cultural Survivals in America (http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/guides/afrcultural.html)
Black Cultural Nationalism (http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/guides/bcn.html)
Christianity and the African Influence (http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/guides/christianity.html)
Civil Rights Movement, Women (http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/guides/crmwomen.html)
Martin Luther King, Jr. Bibliography (http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/guides/king.html)
Resources on Malcolm X (http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/guides/malcolmx.html)
Microfilm:
The following microfilm can be found in the Africana Collection located
in the Olin Library Media Center. This microfilm contains primary
documents dealing with the Civil Rights era in American history, as
well as collections dealing with Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey and Martin
Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights During the Johnson Administration, 1963-1969.
Parts 1-5. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1984-87.
69 microfilm reels. Afr Film 13.
Civil Rights During the Kennedy Administration, 1961-1963. Pt. 1:
The White House Central Files and Staff Files and the President's Office
Files. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1987-.
19 microfilm reels. Afr Film 53.
Cointelpro: The Counterintelligence Program of the FBI. Black Nationalist
Hate Groups. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1978. 4 microfilm
reels. AFR Film 208.
Congress of Racial Equality Papers: Addendum, 1944-1968. Sanford,
NC: Microfilming Corporation of America, 1981? 25 microfilm reels. Afr
Film 5.
Congress of Racial Equality Papers: Collection of the State Historical
Society of Wisconsin. Frederick, MD: University Publications of
America, 1983. 15 microfilm reels. Afr Film 66.
Malcolm X: FBI Surveillance File. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly
Resources, 1978. 2 microfilm reels. Afr Film 7.
Marcus Garvey: FBI Investigation File. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly
Resources, 1978. 1 microfilm reel. Afr Film 40.
Martin Luther King, Jr. FBI File. Parts 1-2. Frederick, MD:
University Publications of America, 1984. 27 microfilm reels. Afr Film
42.
Papers of the Congress of Racial Equality, 1941-1967. Sanford,
NC: Microfilming Corporation of America, 1980. 49 microfilm reels. Afr
Film 3.
Papers of the NAACP. Frederick, MD: University Publications
of America, 1982-. Parts 1-5; Part7:series A - B; Part 8:series. B.
212 microfilm reels. Afr Film 6.
President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights. Frederick, MD:
University Publications of America, 1984. 10 microfilm reels. Afr Film
12.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Papers, 1959-1972.
New York: Microfilming Corporation of American, 1981? 73 microfilm reels.
Afr Film 2.
Transcripts of the Malcolm X Assassination Trial. Wilmington,
DE: Scholarly Resources, 1993. 3 microfilm reels. Afr Film 73.
The Colored American Magazine Africana Periodicals
E 185.5 .C714 v.1-17 (1900-1909) (Indexed in the database PCI)
An important voice in the African American community during the first
decade of the 20th century.
The Crisis Africana Periodicals E185.5 .C931
v.1-67 (1910-1960)
(Indexed in the database PCI.
Current editions indexed in Periodical
Abstracts 1997+)
In 1910, on behalf of the NAACP, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois founded
THE CRISIS magazine as the premier crusading voice for civil
rights.
The Crusader Africana Peridicals E 185.5 C955
v.1-6 (1918/1919-1922)
(Indexed in the database PCI)
This magazine is essential for an understanding of the early Negro aspect
of the American Communist movement. The magazine was edited and published
in New York City by Cyril Valentine Briggs.
The Messenger Africana Periodicals E 185.5
.M59 v.1-10 (1917-1928)
Subject focus and or features; business, education, politics, World
War I, political cartoons, trade unions, theater, poetry, short stories,
music, lynching socialism, profiles and women. Previous editors included
A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen.
Negro Digest (Continued by Black World)
See Roots of Afrocentric Thought: A Reference Guide to Negro Digest/Black
World, 1961-1976 Africana Reference E 185 .N3815 R66x 1998for index.
Negro World Africana Film 82 (1924-1933) Temporarily
shelved in the Olin Library Media Center, Olin Library
Published by Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities
League.
Opportunity Olin Library E 185.5 .O61+ v.1-27
(1923-1949) and Africana Film 55 (1923-1949)
Subject focus include history, politics, profiles, poetry, short stories,
and book reviews. Published by Natonal Urban League.
Southern Frontier Africana Periodicals E 185.5
.S72 v.1-6 (1940-1945)
Published by Southern Regional Council. Subject focus and or features
include lynching, civil rights, education, politics, profiles, economics,
poetry, religion, health, World World II and southen states.
The Student Voice: Periodical of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee Africana Periodicals E 185.61 .S92 1990
(1960-1970)
This is the newspaper of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC). This paper contain news of student sit-ins, marches, and it
reported on SNCCs activities of mobilization of black communities in
the southern region of the United States.
Douglass Monthly Africana Periodicals E 449
.D73 Z14 v.1-5 (1859-1863)
Previous editor was Frederick Douglass. It was published out of Rochester,
New York. Focus is slavery and abolitionists.
The Non-Slaveholder Africana Periodicals E
449 .N81 1846 v.1-5 (1846-50); new ser., v.1-2
(1853-54)
The focus of this publication is abolitinists and slavery.
The Southern Patriot Olin Library HN79.A2 S72
++ Olin Library Film 3055 and
Africana Periodicals HN79.A2 S72 (Check the CU
Catalog for various holdings)
The focus of this publication is civil rights, education, politics and
economic conditions in the southern part of the United States.
Division of Rare & Manuscript
Collections:
Kroch Library, Rare and Manuscript
Collection (http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/)
Kroch Library houses renowned Asia and Rare and Manuscript Collections.
This collection includes 300,000 printed volumes, more than 70 million
manuscripts, and another million photographs, paintings, prints, and
other visual media. The collections support research in fields such
as medieval and Renaissance studies, the Reformation, 18th-century France
and England, American history, Anglo-American literature, Icelandic
history and culture, the history of science, and women's studies.
Kroch Rare and Manuscript Collections Bibliography
Bluett, Thomas. Some Memoirs
of the Life of Job, the Son of Solomon, the High Priest of Boonda In
Africa; Who Was A Slave About Two Years In Maryland; and Afterwards
Being Brought to England, Was Set Free, and Sent to His Native Land
in The Year 1734. London, Printed For R. Ford, 1734.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/narratives/Job.htm
Kroch Library Rare & Manuscripts
Rare Books E444.J62 B65
Bacon, Thomas. Six sermons, on the Several Duties
of Masters, Mistresses, Slaves, &c.: Preached at the Parish Church
of St. Peter, in Talbot County in the Province of Maryland. London:
Printed by J. Oliver; and sold by B. Dod ..., 1751.
Kroch Library Rare & Manuscripts
Rare Books E443 .B12
Davies, Samuel. The Duty of Christians to Propogate
their Religion Among Heathens, Earnestly Recommended to the Masters
of Negroe Slaves in Virginia: A Sermon Preached in Hanover, January
8, 1757. London : J. Oliver, 1758.
Kroch Library Rare & Manuscripts
Rare Books E441 .M46 v.240 no.5 (Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection)
Wheatley, Phillis. Poems on various subjects, religious
and moral. / By Phillis Wheatley, negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley,
of Boston, in New England. London: Printed for A. Bell, bookseller,
Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-street, Boston., MDCCLXXIII.
[1773].
Kroch Library Rare & Manuscripts
Rare Books PS866.W5 P7 1773
An authentic account of the conversion and experience
of a Negro. London: Printed by T. Wilkins, [ca. 1790].
Kroch Library Rare & Manuscripts
Rare Books BV4916 .A9 1790
Dean, Paul. A discourse delivered before the African
Society, at their meeting-house, in Boston, Mass. on the abolition of
the slave trade by the government of the United States of America, July
14, 1819. Boston: Printed for Nathaniel Coverly, 1819.
Kroch Library Rare & Manuscripts
Rare Books E441 .M46 v.245 no.2 (Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection)
The Liberator. Boston, Mass: William Lloyd
Garrison and Isaac Knapp, 1831-1865.
Kroch Library Rare & Manuscripts
Rare Books
E441.A3 L69 +++ and Connect to full text.
The Liberator, Vol II Issue I (Jan 7, 1832) pages 1 and 2 (there's a picture of the newly instituted "Ladies' Department" on that page, and in the lower right hand corner a message re: "Mrs. (Maria) Steward's [sic] Essays" wherein Garrison prints an extract (from her Religion and Pure Principles of Morality, etc. pamphlet)
--- Vol II Issue 46 (Nov 17, 1832) page 183 ("Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall..., September 21, 1832")
Castleman, T. T. (Thomas T.). Plain Sermons for
Servants. New York: Standford and Swords, 1851.
Kroch Library Rare & Manuscripts
Rare Books BX5840 .C35
Negro Young People's Christian and Educational Congress.
The United Negro: his problems and his progress, containing the addresses
and proceedings the Negro Young
People's Christian and Educational Congress, held August 6-11, 1902.
Atlanta: D.E. Luther, 1902.
Kroch Library Rare & Manuscripts
Rare Books E185.5 .P41
Lines, Edwin S. (Edwin Stevens). The Future of the
Negro in America: Paper Read Before the Church Congress of 1905, in
Brooklyn, N.Y. [Brooklyn, N.Y.? : s.n., 1905?]
Kroch Library Rare & Manuscripts
Rare Books E185.2 .F85 v.7 no.13
No. 13 in a vol. lettered: Freedmen pamphlets. 7.
Holland, Jerome Heartwell. The Role of The Negro
Church as an Organ of Protest. [Ithaca, N. Y.] 1941.
Archives Thesis 1941 H735
Olin Library, Oversize Thesis HM44 1941 H735+
Uris Library, Africana Collection (6th Level) + E185.7 .H73
Human Sexuality Collection
In #7687. "Voice of the Turtle," gay American Baptist newsletter,
Sept. 1980. Front page discusses the need to offer refuge to "black
and effeminate" Cuban refugees.
Sexuality Per HQ75 G562 (condensed). "Gay Men of
African Decent."
· May-June '90, "Gayness and/or God: The 'G'reat Trade-off."
"A few brothers and sisters of the cloth are scheduled to participate."
· Oct-Nov '90, "Holiday Blues" event. Why? Christmas
time, gay men not welcome at home, disapproving parents. Anti-gay religious
beliefs causing division in African-American families.
· Sexuality Per HQ75 B64 (box 1). "BLK." Oct. '90 issue
has Phill Wison, L.A.'s new AIDS coordinator on the cover and an interview
inside. On p.7, he talks about his Baptist roots.
Web Sites:
Making
of America (http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/)
Materials accessible here are Cornell University Library's contributions
to Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in
American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education,
psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000
journal articles with 19th century imprints.
The
Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925 (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/ncuhtml/csbchome.html)
This compilation of printed texts from the libraries at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill traces how Southern African Americans
experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central
institution of community life. Coverage begins with white churches'
conversion efforts, especially in the post-Revolutionary period, and
depicts the tensions and contradictions between the egalitarian potential
of evangelical Christianity and the realities of slavery. It focuses,
through slave narratives and observations by other African American
authors, on how the black community adapted evangelical Christianity,
making it a metaphor for freedom, community, and personal survival.
African American
Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
(http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html)
Among the many publications on this site are antislavery sermons, reports
on missionary work among freedmen after the Civil War, issues of The
Baptist Magazine (published by black Baptist churches), and sermons
and addresses of northern black clergymen. Part of the online exhibition
American Memory from the Library of Congress.
African-American
Religion: A Documentary History Project Sample Documents (http://www.amherst.edu/~aardoc/Sample_Documents.html)
The goal of African-American Religion: A Documentary History Project
is to produce a comprehensive historical interpretation of African-American
religion, from the earliest African-European encounters along the west
coast of Africa to the present day. This will be presented in a three-part,
multi-volume series combining historical narration and representative
documents. Additional documents, interpretive commentary, bibliographies,
and research memoranda will be made available through this website.
Sample Documents include both documents to be published in one of the
thirteen volumes (together with their interpretive introductory headnotes)
and other documents that, in whole or in part, will be omitted from
the published collection.
Black Jews, Hebrews and
Israelites (http://members.aol.com/Blackjews/)
Website of a specific Black synagogue in New York, an article from their
rabbi on race and Judaism and information about other Black Jewish groups
Nation of Islam Online (http://www.noi.org/)
Homepage of the Nation of Islam
Give credit where credit is due.
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Chicago Manual of Style
CU Reference locations include Olin, Uris, ILR, and Fine Arts Libraries
at call number: Z253 .U69 2003
Chicago Manual of Style Form Guide (Ohio State University)
The Chicago Manual of Style FAQ
Publication Manual of the American Psychological
Association (5th ed.)
CU Library Reference locations include Africana, Hotel, Management,
Olin, and Uris Libraries at call number:
BF 76.7 .P83x 2001x. Also in ILR and Mann Reference at BF 76.7 .A51
2001.
APA citation style (Gateway Help)
APA Reference Examples for Electronic Source Materials Excerpted from the new 5th edition of the Publication Manual.
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
(6th ed.)
CU Library Reference locations include Olin and Uris Libraries at call
number: Z253 .M68 2003 .
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