Research Guide to Religious Studies . A two-part work providing an introduction to religious scholarship in part one and an overview of reference works on Buddhism, Hinduism, and Shintoism in part two. Part one includes brief bibliographies after each essay while the second part is an annotated list of reference works. All entries are for English-language works. This is a bibliography of articles contributing to the academic study of religion, excluding Biblical studies.
Abstracts are in English although titles are in the original language of the work.
Each volume contains author and subject indexes. William L. Reese. This is primarily a dictionary of terms but it includes longer articles on the thought of major philosophers and religious leaders. The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion . The focus is on the basic terminology and doctrines of Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and Zen.