Dictionaries/Encyclopedias/Handbooks

• Buddhist Dictionary of Pali Proper Names
• Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewish Hodous
• Digital Dictionary of Buddhism edited by A. Charles Muller
• Female Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
• Shorter English-Nepali Dictionary - by Major T. Warren
• Pali-English Dictionary ( Pali Text Society)
• Tibetan Historical Dictionary

• All about Mary: An encyclopedic tool for information on Mary, the Mother of Christ
• Biografisch Lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlandse Protestantisme - biographical dictionary of the history of Dutch Protestantism includes over 2,000 indifiduals.
• Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity - "essential biographical facts of Chinese and foreign Christian missionaries, church leaders, evangelists, and laity chiefly responsible for laying the foundations and advancing the growth of Chinese Christian communities and their influence in societies around the world. While the database is widely inclusive of time periods and faith traditions, the distinctive focus of the project is on the lesser-known Chinese Christians of the modern era (1800 to 1950)."
• Biographical Dictionary of European Mennonite Church Leaders 17th to 19th century - for each person brief information is provided as well as an indication if there is further information in the Mennonite Encyclopedia or Nahmenverzeichniss der sämmtlichen remonstrantischen Professoren und Prediger wie auch derjenigen aller andern Mennonitischen Gemeinen in- und ausserhalb der Batavischen Republick
• Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon
• The Catholic Encyclopedia - work in progress transcribing articles from the Old Catholic Encyclopedia
• Christian Cyclopedia - Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
• Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia
• Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon
• Crum's Coptic Dictionary
• Dictionary of African Christian Biography
• Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the end of the 6th century - also available through Christian Classic Etheral Library and Internet Archive
• Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Smith, Wayte, Marindin 1890)
• The Ecole Initiative : creating a hypertext encyclopedia of Early Church history on the world-wide web - articles on Church history from the origins of Christianity to the Reformation - no longer being maintained
• Encyclpedia Coptica
• Encyclopedia Mythica
• Encyclopedia of Mormonism
• Encyclopedia of World Methodism
• GAMEO: Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online - very good source of information, includes articles copied or adapted from The Mennonite Encyclopedia
• Germania Sacra - history of the Church of the Holy Roman Empire
• Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck
• LBG (Lexicon zur byzantinischen Gräzität) - "The LBG is the foremost lexicographical resource in Byzantine Studies mainly covering the period from the 4th to the 15th century A.D. taken from more than 3,000 texts. Seven fascicles have appeared to date, with one more scheduled to appear in 2016. When completed the dictionary will consist of more than 2,000 printed pages, containing approx. 80,000 lemmata."
• Lexikon der christlichen Moral - by Karl Hormann
• Okumenisches Heiligenlexikon - lexicon of Catholic saints - can search by attributes
• Reallexikon zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte - good for Christian art

• Arabic- English Lexicon by Lane
• Dictionary of Islamic Philosophical Terms
• Dictionary of Islam by Thomas Patrick Hughes (1895)
• Encyclopaedia Iranica
• Major voices in Islam and Science - biographical information on key individuals in Islam and Science
• Shiite Encyclopedia

• American Jewish Year Book - Index to Obituaries 1948-1998
• A Dictionary of the Targumim, The Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi and the Midrashic Literature by Jastrow
• 4 Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism, and Christian and Islamic Orgins: Scholarship and Fiction, from the 15rh century to the present - project by Gabriele Boccaccini and Carlos A. Segovia - " offers a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to scholarly Research and fiction in Second Temple Judaism (including Samaritan and New Testament Studies)". Includes information on people, places and topics in Second Temple Judaism.
• Jewish Women Encyclopedia (Jewish Women's Archive) - 1700 biographies
• Hebrew-English Dictionary - Need to have Hebrew fonts - standard with Internet Explorer 5 and up.
• Holocaust Encyclopedia
• Jewish Encyclopedia - "complete contents of the 12 volume Jewish Encyclopedia which was originally published betweeen 1901-1906"
• Ma'agarim: The Historical Dictionary Project of the Academy of the Hebrew language

• Encyclopedia of Shinto

• Sikh Encyclopedia

• FYSK Daoist Culture Centre Database - over 600 articles on history, beliefs, immortals, templesa nd sacred places, religous practise, rituals, music, literature

• Dictionary of the most common Avesta words - includes abbreviations and pronounication
• Glossary of Zoroastrian Terms - may search alphabetically or scroll, contains hot links within definitions

• Dictionary of the Philosophy of Mind
• Encyclopedia of Egyptology - "high quality peer reviewed information on ancient Egypt" - over 130 articles including topics such as funerary rituals, judgement after death , anthropomorphic deities and animal cult rituals
• Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained - this Gale publication is available free on the Internet with ads and the ability to add comments about the topics.
• Encyclopedia Mythica - " The mythology section is divided to six geographical regions: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania. Each region has many clearly defined subdivisions that will ease your search.
  The Folklore section contains general folklore, Arthurian legends, and fascinating folktales from many lands. In addition, we feature special interest areas to enhance and refine your research. A Bestiary, legendary heroes, an image gallery, and genealogical tables of various pantheons and prominent houses"
• Index of Cults - compilation of information on cults prepared by the Watchman Fellowship
• Interdisciplinary Encylopedia of Religion and Science
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Language Dictionaries and Translators Webpage
• Léxico de magia y religión en los papiros mágicos griegos - over 2500 words for magic and religion found in the editions of K. Preisendanz (Papyri Graecae Magicae) and R. Daniel and F Maltomini (Supplementum Magicum)
• Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
• Pauly Realencyclopadie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft - major encyclopedia for Classical Studies
• The Skeptic's Dictionary
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Words by William Whitaker - Latin dictionary of approximately 39,000 entries. Can translate from Latin to English and English to Latin
• Your Dictionary.com ( Web of online dictionaries) - links to more than 800 dictionaries in over 160 languages

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