Divinity & Religion Research

ATLA is an essential database for scripture & theology research. Watch this brief video on using ATLA

for research by verse, chapter, or book:

ATLA Religion Database...

• Has a scholarly and international viewpoint and broad subject content covering all areas of religious research: Biblical, theological, ministerial, historical, and more.
• Spans over 60 years, 1949 to the present, plus selected records from 1818 on. 
• Indexes over 700 journals plus hundreds of book series and essays. 
• Contains selected articles in full-text, which can be printed off or emailed.
• Is updated quarterly. 
• Has a "Find Full Text Here" link, when full-text is not in the ATLA program, that points to full-text found in other Regent-owned library databases, with a link directly to the Regent University library interlibrary loan department.

View a tutorial about how to use the ATLA Religion Database through EBSCOhost...

• This tutorial introduces the basic features of searching the ATLA Religion Database and lasts 8 minutes and 13 seconds.
• This tutorial comes from the folks at EBSCOhost, a company that supplies several databases to the library, one of which is the ATLA Religion Database program.
• You will need to have your Regent id and password ready as you will be asked at the very start to enter your id and password for access.

Click Here: EBSCOhost Tutorial 

• If, for some reason, the link above does not work, find this tutorial on the ATLA Religion Database main page, the page that displays immediately after logging in.
• Within ATLA, look at the top right portion of your screen for Help. After clicking on Help, look in the left-hand margin of the screen for "EBSCOhost Tutorials" under "Welcome."
• When the EBSCOhost Tutorials page displays, click on the link for the "Advanced Search with Guided Style" tutorial.

The Library provides over 25 databases in the subject area of Divinity; along with our multi-disciplinary databases, they contain hundreds of full-text journals.

You can browse with our Graphic Interface for Journals (Browzine) or via the title lists of specific databases:

List of titles in the Religion Database from ProQuest

Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials: second tab along top

You can find a specific journal (or issue) with the Primo Journals, Magazines tab: search the journal's title or ISSN and open a result to see the available date ranges by database.

You can search for a specific article with a general Primo search: "article title in quotes" AND authorname is the easiest method (please avoid dropping a complete, formatted citation in the search box).

Updated 4/20/23 jdf