Detail from an Ethiopian icon, 17th century. Photo by Andreas Praefcke. Source: Wikimedia Commons
Electronic Reference Collections
Gumberg Library subscribes to a number of collections of electronic reference works. To use these e-reference collections off-campus, you must enter your Multipass username and password when you click on a link.
Spiritan Collection
The Congregation of the Holy Spirit were pioneering missionaries to the African continent and still maintain an vibrant presence there. The link below will take you to a digital collection of primary source documents of the Spiritans, many of which detail their work in various parts of Africa.
Religion & Philosophy
On this page you will find listed selected resources on Africa Religion and Philosophy. You will find reference books, both print and electronic, databases useful for finding magazine and journal articles, links that will find books in the QuickSearch online catalog, and selected reliable websites.
Find Background Information
Not all these reference works are devoted to Africa, but African religion and philosophy are covered in them. To use the electronic sources off-campus, you will need to enter your Multipass information when you click on a title lnk.
Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religions by 
Encyclopedia of Global Religion by 
Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion by 
Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions by Find Books: Religion
Click on a link below to find all books and other materials on that subject in the online catalog. To read any of the electronic books off-campus, you will first have to enter your Multipass information.
Find Books: Philosophy
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Selected E-Journals
To access some of the electronic journals from off campus, you will need to enter your Multipass username and password.
Find Articles
To use these databases off-campus you must enter your Multipass username and password when you click on a link.
