World Religions: New and Improved

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World Religions: New and Improved

Infobase is pleased to announce the official relaunch of World Religions, its unbiased, comprehensive guide to the world’s religions and spiritual traditions. The World Religions database now brings its extensive range of content front and center for a richer research experience—adding a wealth of new material, a more intuitive interface, and exciting new features.

Some highlights of the relaunch:

  • A fresh new design that makes it easier to interact with the content in an efficient and meaningful way
  • A wealth of new content, including expanded coverage of new religious movements, ancient religions/mythology, and faith in America
  • Four new Topic Centers on New Religious Movements, Baha’i Faith, Sikhism, and Zoroastrianism
  • Hundreds of new primary source documents
  • Sacred Texts: a new eBook shelf containing 100 complete sacred texts from the world’s major religions
  • Sacred Music: audio and video clips of sacred music, allowing users to explore a key part of many religious observances
  • New “Religion in the News” section, with regularly updated, searchable news articles from World-Wide Religious News®
  • New slideshows featuring full-color photographs, offering fascinating visual introductions to key topics and themes
  • Search by Common Core, national, state, provincial, IB Organization, and College Board AP standards to find correlating articles
  • Share to Google Classroom, Google Sign-In, and Save to Google Drive
  • Tag “clouds” for all content, linking to related material
  • New Curriculum Tools section with usage and research tips for students and educators
  • Dynamic citations in MLA, Chicago, and Harvard formats, with EasyBib export functionality

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