Website: Religion: Find Books

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Books about religion, philosophy, and psychology are categorized together and can most often be found under the letter 'B.' This section is located on the first floor of the library. The general categories are as follows:

B: Philosophy (General)
BC: Logic
BD: Speculative philosophy
BF: Psychology
BH: Aesthetics
BJ: Ethics
BL- BY: Religion, Theology
BL: Religions, Mythology, Rationalism, Hinduism
BM: Judaism
BP: Islam, Bahai Faith
BQ: Buddhism
BR: Christianity
BS: Bible and exegesis
BT: Doctrinal theology
BV: Practical theology
BX: Christian Denominations

E-Book Collections

ACLS Humanities E-Book This link opens in a new window
Full-text of over 2,000 scholarly books in history and the humanities. Centre College users only.

EBSCO eBook Collection
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EBSCO eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary) is a library of electronic books on many academic subjects. The collection includes thousands of titles purchased by Centre, plus thousands of public-domain e-books. Users can preview an e-book online, peruse a page, read each page in depth, jump to specific chapters or pages, or use links in the Table of Content or Index to go directly to specific chapters of interest. Every word in every book is searchable.
Writings of the Early Christian Church Fathers
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
A collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. Documents long associated with a "western civilization" approach to history as well as much information on Byzantine, Islamic, Jewish, Indian, East Asian, and African history. You will also find many documents especially relevant to women's history and LGBT studies.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
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The Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) is a digital library that provides free electronic copies of Christian scripture and literature texts.
Google Books
HathiTrust
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HathiTrust is a shared digital repository created by major research libraries. It offers searching of the full text of books and full access to works in the public domain.
Project Gutenberg
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Project Gutenberg offers over 36,000 free ebooks to download to your PC, Kindle, Android, iOS or other portable device. Choose between ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats.