Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology

Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology, McCormick Hall, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544. Phone: 609 258-3783, Fax: 609 258-7560
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Library session for AMS 339/REL 355 Religion and the Body in American Culture

| General Information | Encyclopedias | Databases | Finding images in books and journal articles | Finding images online | Library staff contact info |

| General Information |

Library session web page, http://libweb5.princeton.edu/marquand/ams339.htm

Princeton University Library web page, http://libweb.princeton.edu/

Library Main Catalog, http://catalog.princeton.edu/

Article Indexes and Research Databases, http://libweb5.princeton.edu/databases/browse_zd.asp

| Encyclopedias |

Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience: Studies of Traditions and Movements.
General and Humanities Reference (DR). Firestone: BL2525.E53 1988

Encyclopedia of American Religious History.
General and Humanities Reference (DR). Firestone: BL2525.Q44 1995

Encyclopedia of American Religions.
General and Humanities Reference (DR). Firestone: BL2525.M449 1993

Encyclopedia of Native American Religions.
General and Humanities Reference (DR). Firestone: E98.R3 H73 1992

Encyclopedia of African American Religions.
General and Humanities Reference (DR). Firestone: BR563.N4553 1993

Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America.
General and Humanities Reference (DR). Firestone: BL2525.M45 1992

Contemporary American Religion (2 vols)
General and Humanities Reference (DR). Firestone BL2525 .C65 2000

Encyclopedia of Religion in American Politics
General and Humanities Reference (DR). Firestone BL2525 .E52 1999

Encyclopedia of American Women And Religion. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1998.
General and Humanities Reference (DR). Firestone BL2525 .B45 1998

Encyclopedia of Religion.
General and Humanities Reference (DR). Firestone: BL31.E46 1987

Encyclopedia of Religion and Society
General and Humanities Reference (DR). Firestone: BL60.E53 1998

Encyclopedia of Women in Religious Art
Firestone: N7793.W65 A66 1996
Marquand Reference: N7793.W65 A66 1996

Evans Digital Edition

Grove Dictionary of Art Online

| Databases |

  • ATLA Religion Database + ATLAS Full Text provides citations and many full-text articles from religion and theology journals from 1949-present.
  • America: History and Life provides citations to articles, book chapters, books, and more about the United States and Canada, covering publications from 1964-present
  • Art Index provides citations and abstracts to articles on art and architecture of all periods.
General Interest Indexes and Databases

  • OmniFile provides citations and some full-text for articles in general periodicals and journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences 1985-present.
  • Ebsco--Academic Search Premier provides citations and full-text articles from a wide range of scholarly, specialized, and popular sources from the 1980s on.
  • Periodical Contents Index indexes 13.9 million articles published in 4,184 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from the latter part of the eighteenth century to the latter part of the twentieth century.
| Finding images in books and journal articles |

Books are a great place to find images, but it's hard to search for images in the online catalog. Try keyword search with "pictorial works" or look in the record to see if there are illustrations mentioned.

Helpful keywords to mix and match: anorexia, religious aspects, celibacy, United States, plastic surgery, fasting, asceticism, popular culture, body image, art and religion.

Often journal articles will contain images to illustrate an argument. Citations in Art Index, for instance, will indicate if there are illustrations.

Once you've found useful images in books and articles, your best bet is to scan them so you have them in electronic form for your presentation and paper. Marquand has 2 scanners and a color printer. You can:
Save your scanned images to a disk
Burn them onto a CD
Email them to yourself
Connect to the H drive and save them there
Print them
| Finding images online |

Art-specific images
  • Almagest contains digitized images for study and class use, accessible throughout the campus. Visual Resources also has 35 mm slides and photographs, on the 2nd floor of McCormick Hall.
  • AMICO contains over 78,000 digitized images of works of art and is available from all Princeton networked computers.
  • Artcyclopedia is a commercial site useful for locating art images.
  • ARTstor is a large online digital image collection currently in a beta test version.
  • RLG Cultural Materials contains a large number of digitized images, manuscripts, maps, books, etc., with a focus on primary sources.
Historical images
  • Ad*Access presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
  • American Memory Historical Collections from the Library of Congress are multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library's Americana collections.
  • AP Photo Archive contains the Associated Press's current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library.
  • EbscoHost's image collection can be accessed through their Academic Search Premier database. Click on the "Images" tab.
| Library staff contact info |

Wayne Bivens-Tatum, Religion Librarian, rbivens@Princeton.edu

Laurel Bliss, Assistant Art Librarian, lbliss@princeton.edu
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