The Virginia Tech Department of Religion and Culture critically investigates religion, culture, and their relationships providing the opportunities to explore the world's religions and cultures through various interdisciplinary perspectives. Undergraduate minors are offered in the areas of American studies, Appalachian studies, Asian area studies, humanities, humanities and the arts, Judaic studies, medieval and early modern studies, and popular culture.
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ATLA Religion Database indexes citations, abstracts, and full text of articles from journals, essays, book reviews, and multimedia citations. Full text, when available, is in HTML and PDF. You can limit searches to peer-reviewed sources. 1949-present.
Religion and Philosophy Collection indexes citations, abstracts, and full text from journal articles, magazines, and book reviews in the field of world religions, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Full-text materials are available in HTML and PDF. You can limit to peer-reviewed sources. 1967-present.
RAMBI indexes citations to articles in various fields of Jewish studies. 1906-present.
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective indexes citations and abstracts from journal articles in the humanities, social sciences, and some sciences. 1907-1984.