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• Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (13 volumes; Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark; New York: C Scribner's Sons, 1908-1926), ed. by James Hastings, John A. Selbie, and Louis H. Gray
  • Volume I (A - Art): multiple formmats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Arthur - Bunyan): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Burial - Confessions): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Confirmation - Drama): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Dravidians - Fichte): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Fiction - Hyksos): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (Hymns - Liberty): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Life and Death - Mulla): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX (Mundas - Phrygians): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X (Picts - Sacraments): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XI (Sacrifice - Sudra): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XII (Suffering - Zwingli): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Index volume: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Shi'ite Encyclopedia (electronic edition), ed. by Ali Abbas (HTML at al-islam.org)
• A dictionary of religious knowledge, for popular and professional use; comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects. With several hundred maps and illustrations (Harper & brothers, 1885), by Lyman Abbott and Thomas Jefferson Conant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fessenden & co.'s Encyclopedia of religious knowledge. (Brattleboro' typographic company, 1837), by J. Newton Brown and B. B. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopædia of religion and ethics (T. & T. Clark;, 1908), by Louis Herbert Gray, John Alexander Selbie, James Hastigs, Louis H. Gray, John A. Selbie, and James Hastings (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An encyclopedia of religion (The Philosophical library, 1945), by Vergilius Ferm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The faiths of the world. (A. Fullarton & co., 1858), by James Gardner (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of religion and ethics. (The Macmillan company, 1923), by Shailer Mathews and Gerald Birney Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dictionary of religion: an encyclopedia of Christian and other religious doctrines, denominations, sects, heresies, ecclesiastical terms, history, biography, etc., etc. (Cassell, 1887), by William Benham (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of ecclesiastical terms. (T. W. Laurie, 1910), by John S. Bumpus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wetzer und Welte's Kirchenlexikon, : oder Encyklopädie der katholischen theologie und ihrer hülfswissenschaften. (Herder, 1882), by Heinrich Joseph Wetzer, Melchior Abfalter, Hermann Joseph Kamp, Franz Philipp Kaulen, Joseph Hergenröther, and Benedict Welte (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Encyclopedia of religious knowledge : or, Dictionary of the Bible, theology, religious biography, all religions, ecclesiastical history, and missions ... To which is added a missionary gazetteer, containing descriptions of the various missionary stations throughout the globe (J. B. Lippincott & co., 1846), by J. Newton Brown, Geo. P. Tyler, and B. B. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopaedia of religion and ethics (Scribner, 1908), by Louis H. Gray, John A. Selbie, and James Hastings (page images at HathiTrust)
• The concise dictionary of religions knowledge (The Christian literature co., 1899), by Samuel Macauley Jackson, Frank Hugh Foster, and Talbot W. Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Real-encyklopädie für protestantische theologie und kirche. In verbindung mit vielen protestantischen theologen und gelehrten (R. Besser, 1854), by J. J. Herzog (page images at HathiTrust)
• The concise dictionary of religious knowledge and gazetteer (The Christian literature Co., 1889), by Samuel Macauley Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of all religions and religious denominations, Jewish, heathen, Mahometan and Christian, ancient and modern. With an appendix, containing a sketch of the present state of the world, as to population, religion, toleration, missions, etc., and the articles in which all Christian denomination agree. (Published by James Eastburn and company, at the Literary rooms, corner of Broadway and Pine street, N. York; and by Cummings and Hilliard, no. 1, Cornhill, Boston, 1817), by Hannah Adams and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• An encyclopedia of religion. (Littlefield, Adams, 1959), by Vergilius Ture Anselm Ferm (page images at HathiTrust)
• An encyclopaedia of religions (G. Routledge;, 1921), by Maurice A. Canney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Realencyklopädie für protestantische theologie und kirche (J. C. Hinrichs, 1896), by J. J. Herzog, Hermann Caselmann, and Albert Hauck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Encyclopédie théologique ... Publiée par M. l'Abbé Migne ... Tome trente-troisième - trente-cinquième (J.P. Migne, 1850), by M. Bergier and J.-P. Migne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Concise dictionary of religious knowledge : biblical, doctrinal, historical, and practical (The Christian Literature Co., 1889), by Frank Hugh Foster, Talbot W. Chambers, and Samuel Macauley Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church cyclopaedia : a dictionary of church doctrine, history, organization, and ritual ... designed especially for the use of the laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (James Pott, 1883), by Angelo Ames Benton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Protestant theological and ecclesiastical encyclopedia: (Lindsay & Blakiston, 1860), by J. H. A. Bomberger and Johann Jakob Herzog (page images at HathiTrust)
• Etymologisch-symbolisch-mythologisches Real-Wörterbuch zum Handgebrauche für Bibelforscher, Archäologen und bildende Künstler, enthaltend die Thier-, Pflanzen-, Farben- und Zahlen-Symoblik ... (I.F. Cast, 1843), by F. Nork (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of religions; comprising the views, creeds ... of all the principal religious sects ... particularly of all Christian denominations ... to which are added church and missionary statistics ... biographical sketches. (Sanborn, Carter & Basin, 1856), by John Hayward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionnaire universel de mythologie ancienne et moderne ... (J. P. Migne, 1855), by J.-P. Migne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouvelle encyclopédie théologique : ou Nouvelle série de dictionnaires sur toutes les parties de la science religieuse. (Paris, 1851), by J.-P. Migne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fessenden & co.'s Encyclopedia of religious knowledge: or, Dictionary of the Bible, theology, religious biography, all religions, ecclesiastical history, and missions. To which is added a missionary gazetteer, containing descriptions of the various missionary stations throughout the globe (Fessenden and co.;, 1835), by J. Newton Brown and B. B. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyklopädie der katholischen Theologie und ihrer Hilfswissenschaften. (Herder, 1847), by Heinrich Joseph Wetzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Church dictionary. (Murray, 1867), by Walter Farquhar Hook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart; Handwörterbuch in gemeinverständlicher Darstellung (Mohr, 1909), by Leopold Zscharnack, Otto Scheel, Hermann Gunkel, and Friedrich Michael Schiele (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dictionnaire historique des cultes religieux établis dans le monde, depuis son origine jusqu'a présent; : ouvrage dans lequel on trouvera les différentes manieres d'adorer la divinité, que la révélation, l'ignorance, & les passions ont suggérées aux hommes dans tous les temps ... (Chez F.J. Desoer, imprimeur de S.A. & libraire ..., 1772), by Jean-François de La Croix (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of sects, heresies, ecclesiastical parties, and schools of religious thought. (Rivingtons, 1874), by John Henry Blunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• A view of religions, in two parts. Pt.I. Containing an alphabetical compendium of the various religious denominations, which have appeared in the world, from the beginning of the Christian era to the present day. Pt.II. Containing a brief account of the different schemes of religion now embraced among mankind. The whole collected from the best authors, ancient and modern. (Printed by and for Manning & Loring, proprietors, No.2, Cornhill, Boston., 1801), by Hannah Adams, John Adams, Thomas Prentiss, and Manning & Loring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopedia of religious knowledge; or, Dictionary of the Bible (Steen, 1858), by J. Newton Brown, Goerge Palmer Tyler, and B. B. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopædia of religion and ethics (C. Scribner's sons ;, 1924), by John A. Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray, and James Hastings (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Encyclopædia of religion and ethics. (C. Scribner's sons, 1928), by Louis H. Gray, John A. Selbie, and James Hastings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopædia of religion and ethics (Scribner, 1951), by Louis Herbert Gray, John A. Selbie, and James Hastings (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kirchen-Lexikon : oder, Encyklopädie der katholischen Theologie und ihrer Hilfswissenschaften. Generalregisterband (Herder, 1860), by Heinrich Joseph Wetzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Troisième et dernière encyclopédie théologique ... (S'imprime et se vend chez J.-P. Migne, 1855), by J.-P. Migne (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of religion and ethics (The Macmillan Company, 1921), by Shailer Mathews and Gerald Birney Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopedia of religious knowledge; or, Dictionary of the Bible, theology, religious biograpy, all religions, ecclesiastical history, and missions. To which is added a missionary gazetteer, containing descriptions of the various missionary stations throughout the globe / by Rev. B. B. Edwards. (J. Steën, 1848), by J. Newton Brown and B. B. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• The concise dictionary of religious knowledge and gazetteer (C. E. Merrill, 1892), by Samuel Macauley Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Realencyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche (J. C. Hinrichs, 1896), by Johann Jakob Herzog, Hermann Caselmann, and Albert Hauck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nouvelle encyclopédie theólogique (Chez l'éditeur, 1845), by J.-P. Migne (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of religion and ethics (Waverley, 1921), by Gerald Birney Smith and Shailer Mathews (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Encyclopedia of religious knowledge: or, Dictionary of the Bible, theology, religious biography, all religions, ecclesiastical history, and missions. (Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1876), by J. Newton Brown, Geo. P. Tyler, and B. B. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of all religions and religious denominations : antient and modern, Jewish, pagan, Mahometan, or Christian; also of ecclesiastical history; to which are prefixed, I. An essay on truth, the causes of error, &c by the late Rev. Andrew Fuller; II. On the state of the world at Christ's appearance by Mrs. Hannah Adams ...; and to which are appended, a sketch of missionary geography, awith practical reflections on the whole (Printed for F. Westley; W. Simpkin and R. Marshall; and W. Baynes and Son, 1823), by Thomas Williams, Andrew Fuller, and Hannah Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopædia of religion and ethics (T. & T. Clark;, 1908), by Louis H. Gray, John Alexander Selbie, and James Hastings (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The concise dictionary of religious knowledge and gazetteer (The Christian literature co., 1891), by Samuel Macauley Jackson, Frank Hugh Foster, and Talbot W. Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church cyclopædia. a dictionary of church doctrine, history, organization and ritual, and containing original articles on special topics, written expressly for this work by bishops, presbyters, and laymen. Designed especially for the use of the laity of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States of America (L.R. Hamersly & co., 1884), by A. A. Benton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church cyclopaedia : a dictionary of church doctrine, history, organization, and ritual, and containing original articles on special topics, written expressly for this work by bishops, presbyters, and laymen ; designed especially for the use of the laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (L. R. Hamersly, 1886), by A. A. Benton (page images at HathiTrust)
• An encyclopedia of religions (G. Routledge & sons, ltd., 1921), by Maurice A. Canney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Faiths of man a cyclopædia of religions (B. Quaritch, 1906), by James George Roche Forlong (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pravoslavnai︠a︡ bogoslovskai︠a︡ ent︠s︡iklopedīi︠a︡ ili Bogoslovskīĭ ent︠s︡iklopedicheskīĭ slovar, soderzhashchīĭ v sebi︠e︡ neobkhodimyi︠a︡ dli︠a︡ kazhdago svi︠e︡di︠e︡nīi︠a︡ po vsi︠e︡m vazhni︠e︡ĭshim predmetam bogoslovskogo znanīi︠a︡ v alfavitnom pori︠a︡dki︠e︡. (Petrograd, 1900), by N. N. Glubokovskiĭ and Aleksandr Pavlovich Lopukhin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Classified gems of thought from the great writers and preachers of all ages : in convenient form for use as a dictionary of ready reference on religious subjects (Hodder and Stoughton, 1892), by Francis Procter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopaedia of religion and ethics (T. & T. Clark ;, 1913), by John A. Selbie and James Hastings (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le spighe raccolte cioè annotazioni erudite, et erudizioni notate nella lettura delle sacre, e profane historie; delle vite de'santi, e sante; e di molti alrti libri de dottissimi huomini in qualsisia scienza. (Stampa di G. Corona, Si vende in Venezia, A. Poletti, 1716), by Giovanni Maria Chiericato (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionnaire encyclope dique de la the logie catholique (Gaume Fre res et J. Duprey, 1868), by Heinrich Joseph Wetzer and Benedict Welte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fessenden & co.'s Encyclopedia of religious knowledge: or, Dictionary of the Bible, theology, religious biography, all religions, ecclesiastical history, and missions. To which is added a missionary gazetteer, containing descriptions of the various missionary stations throughout the globe (Fessenden and co., 1836), by J. Newton Brown and B. B. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• The concise dictionary of religious knowledge and gazetteer (Maynard, Merrill, & Co., 1893), by Samuel Macauley Jackson, Frank Hugh Foster, and Talbot W. Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allgemeines Lexicon der Religions u. christlichen Kirchengeschichte für alle Confessionen. (Ilmenau, 1834), by Christian Gotthold Neudecker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopédie théologique : ou Série de dictionnaires sur toutes les parties de la science religieuse. (Paris, 1844), by J.-P. Migne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopedia of religious knowledge : or, Dictionary of the Bible, theology, religious biography, all religions, ecclesiastical history, and missions. (Brattleboro' Typographic Co., 1842), by J. Newton Brown and B. B. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fessenden & co.'s Encyclopedia of religious knowledge: (Fessenden and co.;, 1835), by J. Newton Brown and B. B. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Concordia cyclopedia; a handbook of religious information, with special reference to the history, doctrine, work, and usages of the Lutheran church (Concordia publishing house, 1927), by L. Fuerbringer, Paul Edward Kretzmann, and Theodore Edward William Engelder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopedia of religious knowledge : or, Dictionary of the Bible, theology, religious biography, all religions, ecclesiastical history and missions ... (J. Steen, 1854), by J. Newton Brown and B. B. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pravoslavnaia bogoslovskaia entsiklopediia : ili Bogoslovskii entsiklopedicheskii slovar' : soderzhashchii v sebie neobkhodimyia dlia kazhdago sviedieniia po vsiem vazhnieishim predmetam bogoslovskago znaniia v alfavitnom poriadkie ([s.n.], 1900), by N. N. Glubokovskiĭ and Aleksandr Pavlovich Lopukhin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A theological dictionary : containing definitions of all religious terms : a comprehensive view of every article in the system of divinity : an impartial account of all the principal denominations which have subsisted in the religious world from the birth of Christ to the present day : together with an accurate statement of the most remarkable transactions and events recorded in ecclesiastical history (Published by Crissy & Markley, 1851), by Charles Buck, P. Marion Simms, George Bush, McCormick Theological Seminary Collection (Newberry Library), and McCormick Theological Seminary (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of religion and ethics (Christian Century Press, 1922), by Shailer Mathews and Gerald Birney Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

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