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Religion Research Guides: Prayer and World Religions


USEFUL RELIGION LINKS

DIGITAL RESOURCES

Gale Virtual Reference Library

 

WORLD RELIGIONS & PRAYER RESEARCH GUIDE

The library has a comprehensive collection of resources on World Religions and Prayer and they can be accessed in a variety of ways.

BOOKS

Prayer Book can be found at 242 but these are prayer books not information on prayer.

A book on World Religions, Christianity or Buddhism will have information about spirituality, ritual  and prayer  You can  browse for books on World Religions  at  200 in the Non-fiction Collection. See the box on the right for the corresponding Dewey number for each of the major religions. 

Alternatively you can use Oliver to search for information on your religion.

DATABASES & E-BOOKS

The Worldbook Online will provide is a good source of information on each of the major world religions and a great starting point if you are looking for facts.

The World Religions Database is an excellent source of information on each of the major world religions. Click on the Browse  button below the search box and find all the resources on the world religion of your choice.

The Gale Virtual Reference Library is a huge Collection of e-books Two e-books have been selected for this task and are at an appropriate level for year 7. Scroll down browse Collection and find Year 7- Who is God Reading List

WEBSITES

Naturally, you can Google information on your world religion however it is worth your time to go to Weblinks K-12 and search for your religion. Weblinks is a database of websites that have been chosen with the Australian National Curriculum in mind and targeted at secondary and primary school aged students.

SEARCH STRATEGY TIPS

Before starting your research, it is good practice to think about and create a list of  keywords that you can use to search for information on your topic.  Google is very intuitive however databases  usually require a search string. Here are a few tips to help you.

  • Words are sometimes spelled differently, for example, colonization is sometimes written as colonisation.
  • Many search engines and databases use Boolean logic to construct a search term. The asterisk is known as a wild card. The use of AND, OR and NOT can also be helpful.
  • Sometimes it is useful to use other words that mean similar or the same thing (synonyms)
  • Use quotation marks when you are searching for a phrase.
  • Using keywords that relate to the topic will focus the search

Suggestions for this topic:

religion AND rituals AND practices

buddhism AND prayer

christianity AND (prayer OR ritual OR practices)

LIBRARY CATALOGUE

SHELF BROWSING

You can use Oliver to find books in the library however sometimes it is helpful to know the Dewey numbers for a subject. In doing so you will be able to find  books on that subject in most libraries. It will also be useful at those times when you know the topic but don't know where to start looking.
Note that resources about specific events will be located within the Dewey division for the country where the event took place.

200 Religion
242 Prayer
230 Christianity 
290 Other religions
291 Comparative Religions
294.3 Buddhism
294.5 Hinduism
294.4 Sikhism
296 Judaism
297

Islam

 

REFERENCING

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The Referencing Libguide has resources on how to cite/reference sources in research.

The  Online Reference Generator allows you to create citations and bibliographies using the Harvard Referencing Style for a comprehensive list of resources.

       

MyBib is a free online service that allows users to generate citations and bibliographies. You can paste in a DOI, ISBN or URL and have the fields populate automatically. However it does not always provide the correct reference so you must check that all possible parts of the reference have been included.