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Religion: Subject Guide: Hinduism

Resources for your religion research in the Smith Library Center and on the Web.

Search for Books

Keywords are words or phrases that can appear anywhere in the item (citation data or full text of a book or an article). Keyword searching is how you typically search web search engines and it is a good start to find relevant subject headings in databases.

Subject headings are formally assigned, standardized set of terms (also called descriptors) within a database to identify the primary topics of a book or an article.

Here are some examples of subject headings that can be used when searching for books on Hinduism n Southwestern's library catalog or in other library catalogs via WorldCat. Use the filters on the left hand side of the search results page to further refine results.

Hindusim Hindu
Religious Life--Hinduism Hindu--India
Hindu--Mythology Hindu--Relations
Hindu--Sociology Philosophy--Hindu

Some of the many books on Hinduism available in the Southwestern University Library: