Research Guides
The religion collection supports the study of religion in its historical, social, cultural, and scientific aspects.
Religion is principally classified in the BL-BX range of the Library of Congress call number scheme. The major subclasses are:
| BL | History of religion; Jainism and Hinduism; East Asian religions except Buddhism |
| BM | Judaism |
| BP | Islam; new religious movements |
| BQ | Buddhism |
| BR | Christianity by region; history of Christiany |
| BS | Biblical studies |
| BT | Christian doctrinal theology |
| BV | Christian worship and practice, moral theology |
| BX | Christian denominations and sects |
In some cases, religion is classified with the disciplines that touch on it: e.g., philosophy of religion - B; psychology of religion - BF, religious music - M; religious art - N. Some materials published before 1975 are classified in the 200s of Dewey Decimal system.