Most major database providers-Pro-Quest, EBSCO, and Gale-offer a professional-level resource covering religion or a religion/philosophy combination. There are also several specialized bibliographic and reference products dedicated to the study of individual faiths including Islam, Judaism, and Catholicism, as well as titles that focus on religious topics like Bible studies or the Koran. All of them give researchers a scholarly and dispassionate means of exploring issues that in our increasingly combative culture are often otherwise too hot to touch.
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