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Lipset, editor in chief. Washington, D.C. :
Congressional Quarterly,
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Articles on democracy and Islam and democracy and Judaism as well
as country-by-country treatments of the subject.
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The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion.
Robert
Wuthnow, editor. Washington, D.C. : Congressional
Quarterly, 1998.
This specialized encyclopedia "addresses the
powerful confluence
of religion and politics" within individual
countries and regions,
describes major religions and their traditions and movements, and
examines thematic topics, events, and religious and
political personalities.
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The Encyclopedia of Religion.
Mercea Elide,
editor in chief. New York: Macmillan, 1986.
This basic reference source on religion includes
articles on "Political
Theology," "Politics and Religion,"
"Civil Religion,"
"Theocracy," "Church and State," and numerous
other subjects.
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The Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience.
Charles H. Lippy and Peter W. Williams,
editors. New York:
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"Part VIII: Religion and the Political and Social
Orders"
includes articles on:
- Church and State
- Civil and Public Religion
- War and Peace
- Social Reform from the Colonial Period through the
Civil War
- Social Reform after the Civil War to the Great Depression
- Social Reform since the Great Depression
- Ethnicity and Religion
- The South
- California and the Southwest
- Religious Prejudice and Nativism
- Women and Religion
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Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East.
Edited by Reeva
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Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. Edited by
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Encyclopedia of World Cultures. Edited by
David Levisnson.
Boston, Mass:G.K. Hall, 1991-
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International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.
New York: Macmillan and the Free Press, 1968.
Lengthy articles by specialists cover all important concepts and
ideas in sociology, political science, law, economics,
and anthropology
as well as the social aspects of many other subject
areas. A substantial
bibliography follows each article.
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic
World. John
L. Esposito, editor in chief. New York, Oxford: Oxford
University Press,
1995.
A four-volume set that complements The
Encyclopedia of Islam,
this source "concentrates on the ways that Muslims
have expressed
themselves in the modern period through political and social action
as well as formal texts.
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New Encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel.
Geoffrey
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Religions of the World: A
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introduction. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2002.
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Area Handbook
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Foreign Area Studies, American University. Washington,
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The Country Studies/Area Handbook Series presents a
description and
analysis of the historical setting and the social,
economic, political,
and national security systems and institutions of
countries throughout
the world and examines the interrelationships of those systems and
the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
"Chapter 2. Society
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or religious
life. County studies for 86 different countries are
available within
Schaffer Library, with links to the full text online. They are also
available in full text directly from the Library
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The Europa World Yearbook.
Edited by Arthur
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Basic information on the organization, activities,
finance, and publications
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history, government,
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The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political
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Oxford Reference Online: Politics and
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A suite of political science reference books, including:
A Dictionary of Geography
A Dictionary of Political Biography
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics
A Dictionary of Psychology
Dictionary of the Social Sciences
A Dictionary of Sociology
A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century World History
The Oxford Guide to the United States Government
Handbook of the World
Oxford Reference Online: Religion and Philosophy
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http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/SUBJECT_SEARCH.html?subject=s22
A suite of religion reference books, including:
A Dictionary of the Bible
The Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
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